Portrait of a Nazi War Victim: #5567 Leon Kliot memoir
Leon Kliot was born in 1929 in Vilna, Poland (now Vilnius, Lithuania). Before World War II, Kliot owned a hardware business, married, and had a child. Following the Soviet Union seizure of eastern Poland in 1939, the city became part of Lithuania. In 1941, the Germans forced Kliot and his family out of their home and into the ghetto. Leon was part of the resistance movement in the ghetto and snuck ...



