Oral history interview with Leon Blatt
Extent and Medium
10 videocassettes (U-Matic), sound, color ; 3/4 in.
Creator(s)
- Nathan Beyrak
Biographical History
Nathan Beyrak conducted the interview with Leon Blatt in Israel on December 26, 1991, for the Israel Documentation Project. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the tapes of the interview by transfer from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Dept. in February 1995.
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection
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
- Blatt, Leon, 1919-
- Nathan Beyrak
- Leon Blatt
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- Jewish ghettos--Poland.
- Forced labor--Poland.
- Jews--Education--Germany.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
- World War, 1939-1945--Jewish resistance.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Personal narratives.
- Jewish councils.
- Katowice (Poland)
- Holocaust survivors--Israel.
- Jews--Poland--Katowice.
- Jewish refugees--Hungary.
- Men--Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements.
- Israel--Emigration and immigration.
- Poland--Emigration and immigration.
Genre
- Oral History
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