Leon S. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Leon S., who was born in Germany in 1905. He describes moving to Cze?stochowa, Poland in 1910; involvement with a Zionist youth movement; living in Palestine from 1923-1926; returning to Cze?stochowa at his father's request; marriage and the birth of two sons; and his prosperous business. He recounts increasingly restrictive legislation against the Jews by the Germans; escaping round-ups in the ghetto; cooperating with the Germans to save Jews; activities in the underground; escaping deportation to Radom because he was considered valuable by the Germans; constant efforts to hide his wife and children; the death of his oldest son when the ghetto was liquidated; having his younger son smuggled out of the ghetto by the Polish underground to be hidden; difficulties obtaining food and maintaining work places for the Jews; a march of Jewish and Ukrainian refugees to Germany; and liberation by the Soviet army at Holstein. Mr. S. relates his unsuccessful efforts to locate his child; leaving Poland; helping to bring a child to the United States whom he thought might have been his son; and his belief that his son probably is not alive. He recalls many other specific incidents which occurred during the war, including events in the HASAG factory.

7 videocassettes (3/4" u-matic)