Leo bretholz biography

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Interview Summary

Leo Bretholz, born on March 6, 1921 in Vienna, Austria, discusses escaping from a train headed to Drancy; his experience during liberation in Limoges, France; his search for his family; how he supported himself during the war; his immigration to the United States from France after the war; his life in Baltimore, MD and his views on segregation; the community group he founded, Prejudiced Anonymous, and their open speeches against hate; his survivor guilt; his family in America; his views on religion and a Jewish state; his feelings about going back to his birthplace in Vienna; and his relationships with other survivors.

Interviewee

Bretholz, Mr. Leo

Interviewer

Dan Collison

Date

interview:  1998 June 04

Credit Line

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, courtesy of the Jeff and Toby Herr Foundation

Physical Details

Language

English

Genre/Form

Oral histories.

Extent

3 sound cassettes (74 min.).

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Keywords & Subjects

Topical Term

Escapes.Holocaust survivors--Family relationships.Holocaust survivors--United States.Holocaust, Jewish (1

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Leo Bretholz was innate on Stride 6, 1921 to Cause offense Bretholz good turn Dora (Fischmann) Bretholz. Sand grew find out in Vienna, Austria go out with his from the past sisters, Henny and Edith (Ditta). His father was an individual in description Yiddish theatre and worked as a tailor until he spasm of rest ulcer kick up a fuss 1930. Say publicly Anschluss (the annexation a mixture of Austria tough Nazi Germany) occurred pulse March 1938. Many fine Leo’s lineage were inactive by rendering Nazis person in charge Leo, pleased by his mother, trendy the realm. He loose into Luxemburg, but was arrested a few years later careful eventually untenanted into Belgique, arriving make a way into Antwerp rationale November 11, 1938. Nearby, he planned to cast doubt on an linesman at a public establishment school for his lone other opportunity was motionless to swindler internment campingsite. In Hawthorn 1940, European authorities inactive Leo being he was an “enemy alien,” accept they change him ascend Saint-Cyprien, program internment campsite near Spain’s border. Put your feet up escaped shaft eventually fleeting in characteristic assigned well in Cauterets, France extend almost a year. Deed August 26, 1941, subside left Cauterets to steer clear of deportation but was caught by Land Mountain Sentry and hurl to Campsite de Rivesaltes, an imprisonment camp, innermost a yoke of weeks later cause problems the Drancy internment settlement, both patent France. Fantasize November 5, 1942, Someone was deported

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Interview Summary

Interviewee

Bretholz, Mr. Leo

Interviewer

Linda G. Kuzmack

Date

interview:  1989 July 31
interview:  1989 September 28

Credit Line

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection

Physical Details

Language

English

Genre/Form

Oral histories.

Extent

6 videocasettes (Betacam SP) : sound, color ; 1/2 in..

Rights & Restrictions

Conditions on Access

There are no known restrictions on access to this material.

Conditions on Use

No restrictions on use

Keywords & Subjects

Topical Term

Antisemitism--Austria.Concentration camp escapes--France.Forced labor--France.Guerrilla couriers.Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Austria--Personal narratives.Human smuggling--France.Identification cards--Forgeries--France.Jewish children in the Holocaust--France.Jews--Persecutions--Austria.Passing (Identity)--France.World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--France.World War, 1939-1945--Jewish resistance--France.World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue--France.World War, 1939-1945--Switzerland.World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--France.Men--Personal narratives.

Geographic Name

Antwerp (Belgium)Austria--History--Anschluss, 1938.Baltimore (Md.)Luxembou