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Oral history interview with Leo Fixler and Helen Fixler

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.908 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0908

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    Oral history interview with Leo Fixler and Helen Fixler

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    Interview Summary
    Leo Fixler was born in Teresva, Czechoslovakia in 1922, a member of a large extended family. He left for Budapest in 1939, where he lived comfortably until being arrested and forced into a labor camp in Germany from 1943 until early 1945. He was then sent on a death march to Mauthausen and later imprisoned in Gunskirchen. After his liberation, Mr. Fixler was hospitalized and then worked for the United States Army in Germany. He immigrated to Winnipeg, Canada in 1949, where he worked as a tailor, and met and married his wife Helen.

    Helen Fixler was born in eastern Poland in 1927. After the occupation of her city by Nazi troops, she and her family were forced into a ghetto. The family escaped and lived in the woods nearby, where Mrs. Fixler remained for a year and a half. After the war ended, Mrs. Fixler returned to her home in Poland, reunited with her brother and moved to Germany. Her brother was able to immigrate to Canada; she joined him there and met and married Mr. Fixler in Winnipeg.
    Interviewee
    Helen Fixler
    Leo Fixler
    Date
    interview:  1989 February 08
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Jewish Family and Children's Services of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Genre/Form
    Oral histories.
    Extent
    1 videocassette (SVHS) : sound, color ; 1/2 in..

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    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Leo Fixler and Helen Fixler on February 8, 1989. The interview was received by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives Branch in February 2005.
    Funding Note
    The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
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    2023-11-16 08:47:25
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