Artifacts - Leonard Chill

Leonard Chill, nicknamed Lolek, after he left Poland at age 14 and arrived in England in 1946. Chill, who had twice changed his name to hide his identity during the German occupation, remembered his birth name and was able to find the listing for his cousins when he searched for them in the London telephone directory when he arrived.

Leonard Chill’s father while living in Poland before the war. Chill did not acquire this photograph of his father until after the war, when a cousin, who was living in Bombay, India, gave it to him.