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Oral history interview with Lesław Flis

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1998.A.0300.350 | RG Number: RG-50.488.0350

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    Oral history interview with Lesław Flis

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Leslaw Flis, born on April 9, 1936 in Lwow, Poland (now L'viv, Ukraine) (in Polish Lwow), discusses his mother, who was a housewife; his father, who was a non-commissioned military officer; his childhood; the Christmas holidays; living in a poor Jewish district and playing with Jewish children; his memories of the Russians attacking Lwow on September 21, 1939; life under the Soviet rule; experiencing constant hunger and a fear of deportation by the soldiers of the interior ministry of the Soviet Union (NKWD); the German occupation beginning in June 1941; the killing of prisoners in the prisons in order to empty them and the brigades of Jews who were made to remove the bodies; an ordinance forbidding any kind of help to the Jewish population under the threat of death; the many limitations place on the Jews, such as only being allowed to walk in the middle of the street, not sidewalks, and wearing the star of David; his schooling during this time; watching frequent round-ups; the danger of riding the street car; the creation of a ghetto at the end of 1942; some Jews refusing to move to the closed ghetto and the consequences of this; a friend of his family hiding a Jewish woman; the burning of many synagogues in Lwow; the deportations to Belzec death camp; the bombardment of his part of the town in April 1944; moving towards the end of the war to a village outside the city; and moving to Gliwice, Poland in October 1945.
    Interviewee
    Lesław Flis
    Interviewer
    Borbála Kriza
    Aleksandra Szczepan
    Date
    interview:  2018 March 20
    Geography
    creation: Wroclaw (Poland)
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, courtesy of the Jeff and Toby Herr Foundation

    Physical Details

    Language
    Polish
    Extent
    1 digital file : MP4.

    Rights & Restrictions

    Conditions on Access
    There are no known restrictions on access to this material.
    Conditions on Use
    No restrictions on use

    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Flis, Lesław.

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    This is a witness interview of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Perpetrators, Collaborators, and Witnesses: The Jeff and Toby Herr Testimony Initiative, a multi-year project to record the testimonies of non-Jewish witnesses to the Holocaust.
    Funding Note
    The production of this interview was made possible by Jeff and Toby Herr.
    The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
    Record last modified:
    2023-11-16 08:55:55
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