Oral history interview with Leah Schwarz, Feb. 2, 1979.

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Oral history interview with Leah Schwarz, Feb. 2, 1979.

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Schwarz tells how she came to live in Bratislava, Slovakia, in 1938 after being warned about the anti-Semitic regime in her home town, Český Těšín. In Bratislava she was secretary to Gisi Fleischmann, a leader in the Jewish Center (Ustredna Zidov in Slovak, Zentrale der Juden in German) and leader of the Women's International Zionist Organization. Schwarz describes the rescue efforts of Fleischmann and Jewish Center leaders Heinrich Schwarz and Rabbi Michael Dov Weissmandel who arranged to aid refugees, help Jews escape to Palestine, and alert the rest of the world to the atrocities of the Holocaust.

Sound recordings: 1 sound cassette (ca. 60 min.) : analog, mono.Transcript: 10 leaves.

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Jewish Archives (University of Washington)

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Russak, Adina,

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Schwarz, Leah, 1907-1980,

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Jewish community member, Seattle, Washington. Born Leonie Gruen in Czechoslovakia, 1907. Married name also given as Leonie Schwarznova. From the description of Oral history interview with Leah Schwarz, Feb. 2, 1979. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 50619083 ...

Fleischmann, Gisi

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Weissmandel, Michael Dov, 1904?-1957

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