Oral history interview with Leslie Schwartz
Extent and Medium
1 digital files, MPEG-2
Creator(s)
- Wendy Lower Ph.D.
Biographical History
This is a witness interview of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Perpetrators, Collaborators, and Witnesses: The Jeff and Toby Herr Testimony Initiative, a multi-year project to record the testimonies of non-Jewish witnesses to the Holocaust. Wendy Lower, on behalf of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, coordinated the interview with Leslie Schwartz in Germany on September 22, 2011. The interview was received by the Museum's Oral History Branch in 2011.
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, courtesy of the Jeff and Toby Herr Foundation
Funding Note: The production of this interview was made possible by Jeff and Toby Herr.
Funding Note: The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
Conditions Governing Access
No restrictions on access
Conditions Governing Reproduction
No restrictions on use
People
- Wendy Lower Ph.D.
- Leslie Schwartz
- Schwartz, Leslie, 1930-
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, German.
- World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Germany.
- Jewish children in the Holocaust--Hungary.
- Death marches--Germany.
- Massacres--Germany--Poing.
- World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from Hungary.
- Germany--History--1933-1945.
- Men--Personal narratives.
- Kisvárda (Hungary)
- Mass murder--Germany--Poing.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Poland.
- Jewish ghettos--Hungary--Kisvárda.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Germany.
- World War, 1939-1945--Children--Hungary.
- Baktalórántháza (Hungary)
- Germany.
- Poing (Germany)
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Germany.
- Tutzing (Germany)
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
Genre
- Oral History