Leslie Banos was a non-Jewish rescuer and part of the resistance during 1944. Watch his testimony, then read his biography.
Leslie Banos was born in 1923 in Nyírbátor, Hungary as the child of a Jewish father and a non-Jewish mother. His mother died when he was only ten months old and he was raised by his Lutheran relatives. During the Second World War, he was rescuing Jewish people and he was participating in the resistance. He worked in his aunt’s factory where they were hiding persecuted people. After the war, he immigrated to the United States where he started a family and worked as a newspaper photographer. The interview was conducted in 1995, in Los Angeles, USA.