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Leon Prochnik was six when his family fled the Nazis, leaving their chocolate factory behind. Now 80, he gives talks on the horrors of the Holocaust.
Jul 26, 2013 · The son of well-to-do chocolatiers in Krakow, Leon Prochnik would grow up to become a film director, editor, producer and writer in Los Angeles. But, as a se...
Apr 4, 2019 · Leon Prochnik was 6 years old and living a privileged existence in Poland — his family were owners of a famed Krakow chocolate factory — in 1939 when Hitler’s invasion of the nation sent Jewish...
Leon Prochnik. at the. I was born in 1933 into a Jewish family that owned the second largest chocolate factory in Poland. Until the age of 6, I enjoyed a privileged existence. In 1939, we fled Nazi occupied Poland. For a year and a half, we traveled through Lithuania, Russia, Japan and Canada before finally reaching the United States.
Jan 8, 2016 · Leon Prochnik was 6 and on a family vacation away from their Krakow home when his father, the owner of one of the largest chocolate factories in Eastern Europe, received a telegram from an...
Jul 21, 2013 · Ninth-grader Aiyanna Pillado looks at a photograph of Leon Prochnik at the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust. Prochnik uses the memory of a tub of chocolate to underscore his life story.
Leon Prochnik “When I look at footage of these refugees fleeing from Syria, it really stirs me,” says the screenwriter and editor, whose Polish family was on vacation when the Nazis invaded and...
