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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...
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Guest Lecturer at L.A. Museum of Tolerance · Experience: Hear It, Draw It, Remember it ForeverE · Location: Los Angeles · 22 connections on LinkedIn. View Leon Prochnik’s profile on LinkedIn,...
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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.
Jan 8, 2016 · Screenwriter Leon Prochnik recalls running from the Nazis while on vacation with his family as a child and never returning to their home in Krakow.
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...
Jul 21, 2013 · His escape from the Nazis was more like “Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory” than “The Sound of Music,” Leon Prochnik admits. Prochnik was 6 when his family fled Poland as Hitler’s army ...
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...
