Leon Prochnik
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Leon Prochnik (M / Poland, 1933), Holocaust survivor
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Biography
Leon Pochnik was born in 1933 into a Jewish family that owned the second largest chocolate factory in Poland. Until the age of 6, he enjoyed a privileged existence. In 1939, the family fled Nazi occupied Poland. For a year and a half, they traveled through Lithuania, Russia, Japan and Canada before finally reaching the United States.