Leo R. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Leo R., who was born in Ro?z?an, Russia (currently Poland) in 1913, one of nine children. He recalls attending cheder and public school; participating in Po'alei Zion; anti-Jewish violence; working in Mys?lenice; German invasion; joining his family in Ostro?w Mazowiecki; fleeing with his father and brothers to Soviet-occupied Zambro?w; moving with his parents and several siblings to Slonim; German invasion in 1941; hiding during a mass killing; traveling with a brother, two sisters, and their families to Zambro?w via Bia?ystok; staying with a brother in Tarno?w to avoid forced labor; ghettoization of Zambro?w; escaping to a forest; hiding with Polish farmers; entering the Zambro?w ghetto; forced labor as a carpenter; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau; slave labor in Buna/Monowitz; briefly remaining with one brother; many deaths caused by beatings; transfer to Auschwitz; privileged work as a carpenter; frequent selections; a death march, then train transport to Mauthausen in January 1945; transfer to Ebensee; hospitalization; liberation by United States troops; reunion with two brothers; illegally traveling to Milan to emigrate to Palestine; British interdiction of the ship; a twenty-one month internment on Cyprus; marriage in Israel in 1952; and emigration to the United States in 1956. Mr. R. notes the deaths of his five sisters in the Holocaust; recurring nightmares; and sharing his experiences with his children.

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