Holocaust Survivor Leo Ullman Tells His Incredible Story— Mo News Interview
Mo News
@mosheh / tentwentytwo
4.9 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 28 January 2023
⏱️ 58 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everyone, this is Jill Wagner with a special edition of the Mono's podcast. |
| 0:09.3 | As we mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day, I feel really honored to be talking |
| 0:13.9 | with Holocaust survivor Leo Olman. |
| 0:16.4 | He was born in Amsterdam in July of 1939, which makes him one of the youngest Holocaust |
| 0:22.4 | survivors and the few Holocaust survivors who are still living today, which is one of |
| 0:27.9 | the reasons that it is so incredibly important to take the time to hear his story. |
| 0:33.1 | Leo was just three years old when his family went into hiding in Amsterdam, that is the |
| 0:37.7 | same city where another young, Jewish person, Anne Frank, was also in hiding. |
| 0:42.9 | Leo was raised by a Christian family as their own for 796 days. |
| 0:48.7 | He has since written a book called 796 Days about that experience and his family's |
| 0:54.2 | eventual escapes the United States. |
| 0:56.8 | A big thank you as well to my friend Dana Arshin from the Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance |
| 1:01.2 | Center of NASA County for helping connect us to Leo and for helping preserve Leo's story |
| 1:06.8 | and the stories of other survivors. |
| 1:09.3 | Now Leo's story is a bit different. |
| 1:11.0 | He has said it is a story not of struggle but of survival and again, I feel so thankful |
| 1:16.8 | that I am able to talk to him today. |
| 1:18.4 | Leo, thank you so much for being here. |
| 1:20.6 | Thank you very much for happening. |
| 1:22.9 | So to begin with, I just want to go through a bit of your story. |
| 1:25.7 | You were born in Amsterdam in 1939. |
| 1:28.6 | Can you tell us a bit about what life was like for your family before the war? |
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