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INTERVIEWEE’S NAME: Bela Flajs INTERVIEWEE’S BIOGRAPHY AND DETAILED EXPLANATION OF THE TOPICS: https://sztetl.org.pl/pl/historia-mow... INTERVIEW BY: Joanna Król RECORDING: Przemysław Jaczewski DATE OF RECORDING: April 29, 2014 COPYRIGHT TO THE RECORDING: POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews MOST IMPORTANT TOPICS: 00:00:04 – Education and profession of the interviewee. 00:01:07 – Arrival from the Urals to Pieszyce in 1946, train journey to Lower Silesia, memories of the Germans leaving Pieszyce. 00:03:18 – The family’s war history, loss of the father. English: 00:05:45 – Memory of spring in Dzierżoniów and the interlocutor’s lung illness, stay in the TOŻ sanatorium in Otwock near Warsaw. 00:09:54 – Jewish school in Pieszyce, Polish and Yiddish in the family home. 00:13:31 – Mother’s political views, decision to stay in Poland. 00:14:33 – The impact of the events of March ’68 on the interlocutor’s family and her professional work, harassment of her mother. 00:20:24 – Poles and Jews in Dzierżoniów. Emigration in the 1950s, dilemmas and choices. 00:25:39 – Engineering studies in Moscow, the situation of students from Hungary during the events in Budapest in 1956. 00:27:34 – Attitude towards the authorities of the Polish People’s Republic and “Solidarity.” 00:36:13 – Atheism and religiosity in the family. 00:39:48 – Being Jewish in the times of the Polish People's Republic. 00:42:28 – Celebrating Jewish and Catholic holidays. 00:45:27 – Participation in TSKŻ activities in Dzierżoniów. 00:47:52 – Identity issues. 00:49:40 – Childhood in the Hutsul region, mother's work in a weaving mill, deportations to the Urals during World War II. Discover the POLIN Museum's oral history collection: https://sztetl.org.pl/pl/historia-mow... Subscribe to our channel: / @historiamowionapolin Watch the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews channels: POLIN (announcements and reports from events at the Museum): / mhzp2013 Virtual Shtetl (history and culture of Polish Jews): / wirtualneshtetl Polish Righteous (stories of help provided to Jews during the Holocaust): / polscysprawiedliwi Contact for interview sharing: [email protected]