Leib B. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Leib B., who was born in Kraków, Poland in 1920, one of seven children. He recalls attending public school; studying at the Bobowa Yeshiva from 1937 to 1939; returning home when war was imminent; German invasion; two brothers and one sister escaping through Hungary and Romania to Israel; ghettoization in 1941; deportation to Tarnów, then Brzesko; joining an aunt in a town near Bochnia; learning his parents had died from typhus; returning to the Kraków ghetto with his youngest brothers; moving to Bochnia; deportation with two brothers and a sister in 1943 to Trezbinia, then Auschwitz; slave labor carrying tracks; transfer with one brother to a missile factory in January 1945, then to Bergen-Belsen; liberation by British troops in April; living in the displaced persons camp; moving to a religious kibbutz in Frankfurt am Main; marriage; moving to Weisbaden; assistance from UNRRA; his brother's marriage in Hannover in 1947 and emigration to the United States; the birth of his first child; and emigration to join his brother in 1949. Mr. B. shows documents and photographs.
Extent and Medium
1 videocassette
Conditions Governing Access
This testimony is open with permission.
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright has been transferred to the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies. Use of this testimony requires permission of the Fortunoff Video Archive.
Rules and Conventions
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Process Info
compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
People
- B., Leib, -- 1920-
Corporate Bodies
- United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration.
- Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp)
- DP-Camp Bergen-Belsen.
- Trzebinia (Concentration camp)
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Jewish ghettos.
- Jews -- Poland -- Kraków.
- Brothers.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Video tapes.
- Men.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Refugee camps.
- Forced labor.
- Postwar experiences.
Places
- Frankfurt am Main (Germany)
- Hannover (Germany)
- Brzesko (Poland)
- Bochnia (Poland)
- Wiesbaden (Germany)
- Kraków ghetto.
- Poland.
- Kraków (Poland)
- Bobowa (Poland)
- Tarnów (Województwo Małopolskie, Poland)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat