Oral history interview with Leya Koltun
Extent and Medium
1 videocassette (SVHS), sound, color ; 1/2 in.
Biographical History
The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Leya Koltun on August 22, 2001. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received the tapes of the interview from the Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project in October 2002.
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Jewish Family and Children's Services of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties
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
People
- Leya Koltun
- Koltun, Leya.
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- Daugavpils (Latvia)
- Holocaust survivors--United States.
- Tallinn (Estonia)
- Mass murder--Latvia.
- Jews--Persecutions--Latvia.
- Jewish families--Latvia.
- Latvia--History--German occupation, 1941-1944.
- Latvia--History--1940-1991.
- Jewish women in the Holocaust.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
- Forced labor--Estonia.
- Forced labor--Latvia.
- Jewish ghettos--Latvia--Daugavpils.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- Kohtla-Jarve (Estonia)
- Women--Personal narratives.
Genre
- Oral History
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