Żydów przyjezdnych było sporo. Bela Flajs o życiu w Pieszycach i Dzierżoniowie

INTERVIEWEE'S NAME: Bela Flajs INTERVIEWEE'S BIOGRAPHY AND DETAILED TOPICS: https://sztetl.org.pl/pl/historia-mow... INTERVIEW BY: Joanna Król RECORDING: Przemysław Jaczewski RECORDING DATE: April 29, 2014 COPYRIGHT TO THE RECORDING: POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews KEY TOPICS: 00:00:04 – Interviewee's education and profession. 00:01:07 – Arrival from the Urals to Pieszyce in 1946, train journey to Lower Silesia, recollection of the Germans leaving Pieszyce. 00:03:18 – The family's wartime history, the loss of her father. 00:05:45 – Memories of spring in Dzierżoniów and the interviewee's lung disease, stay at the TOŻ sanatorium in Otwock near Warsaw. 00:09:54 – Jewish school in Pieszyce, Polish and Yiddish in the family home. 00:13:31 – The mother's political views, the decision to remain in Poland. 00:14:33 – The impact of the events of March '68 on the interviewee's family and her professional career, 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 Hungarian students during the events in Budapest in 1956. 00:27:34 – Attitude towards the communist authorities and "Solidarity." 00:36:13 – Atheism and religiosity in the family. 00:39:48 – Being Jewish during the communist era. 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. Explore 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):    / wirtualnysztetl   Polish Righteous (stories of help provided to Jews during the Holocaust):    / polscysprawiedliwi   Contact for interview requests: [email protected]