Leo B. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Leo B., who was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany in 1921, the middle of three children. He recalls his family's orthodoxy; attending Jewish school; participating in Agudat, intending to emigrate to Palestine; preparing for that in Darmstadt; his brother's emigration to Palestine; burning of the synagogue on Kristallnacht; emigrating with his mother, father, and sister to Amsterdam; incarceration with his father in refugee camps; transfer by himself to Deventer, Eindhoven, then Westerbork; finding his father there; arrival of many Jews after German occupation; organizing activities for the children; celebrating Jewish holidays; transfer to Auschwitz, then Gleiwitz; slave labor in a train repair facility; beatings for taking extra food and for having tefillin; hospitalization; transfer to Blechhammer; liberation by Soviet troops; transport to Krako?w, then Gleiwitz; volunteering in a hospital; learning his parents and sister were killed; living in Switzerland for six months; illegal emigration to Palestine; reunion with his brother; joining the Haganah; his brother's death in the 1948 war; marriage; the births of two children; and his career as a rehabilitation expert for handicapped people. Mr. B. discusses his loss of faith due to his experiences,

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