The Montreal Gazette sat down with Lesniak for a video interview as the Holocaust survivor reflects on turning 100.
, Lesniak describes the relationship he had with industrialist Oskar Schindler, both during and after the Second World War:
“Schindler was a most complex man,” Lesniak recalls. “He had been a Nazi and a spy. He had big drinking problems. He made fortunes at his factories, but he was left penniless, because he had spent everything in bribing the SS. Yet he and his wife, Emilie, were solely responsible for protecting and saving more than 1,100 Jews, and my brother and I were two of them. If it wasn’t for their noble actions, I believe no more than 10 per cent of the 1,100 would have survived.
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