Leon K. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Leon K., who was born in a small town in Bosnia in 1907 to a family of nine children. He recalls his father's death; attending business college; a government job; marriage in Travnik on the day of the German invasion in 1941; working in Tuzla; moving to Travnik; hiding for three months to avoid deportation; reaching Italian-occupied Mostar with help from a Muslim; his wife joining him in January 1942; and fleeing to the mountains. He recounts living with partisans; moving to Kotor; transfer to Vieste, then Bari, Italy; emigration to the United States in 1943; living in the Fort Ontario refugee camp; their daughter's birth in 1945; and learning after the war that most of their family perished. Mr. K. shows a prayer book he carried throughout the war.
Extent and Medium
1 videocassette
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This testimony is open with permission.
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Copyright has been transferred to the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies. Use of this testimony requires permission of the Fortunoff Video Archive.
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Process Info
compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
People
- K., Leon, -- 1907-
Corporate Bodies
- Fort Ontario Emergency Refugee Shelter.
Subjects
- Video tapes.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Men.
- Hiding.
- Refugees, Jewish.
- Partisans.
- Italian occupation.
- Husband and wife.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Jews -- Migrations.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- Yugoslavia.
- Aid by non-Jews.
Places
- Kotor (Montenegro)
- Bari (Italy)
- Vieste (Italy)
- Tuzla (Bosnia and Hercegovina)
- Yugoslavia.
- Bosnia and Hercegovina.
- Travnik (Travnik, Bosnia and Hercegovina)
- Mostar (Bosnia and Hercegovina)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat