Oral history interview with Leon Schwartz
Extent and Medium
2 videocassettes (U-Matic), sound, color ; 3/4 in.
Biographical History
Nathan Beyrak conducted the interview with Leon Schwartz in Israel on August 11, 1993, 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
- Leon Schwartz
- Schwartz, Leon, 1923-
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- Jews--Poland--Chrzanów.
- Regensburg (Germany)
- Israel--Emigration and immigration.
- Jews--Social life and customs.
- World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from Poland.
- Holocaust survivors--Israel--Interviews.
- Forced labor.
- Men--Personal narratives.
- Concentration camp inmates.
- Chrzanów (Poland)
- Construction workers--Poland.
- Gogolin (Województwo Opolskie, Poland)
- Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945.
- World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Poland.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
Genre
- Oral History
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