Dr. jur. Henryk Ignacy (Hirsz Itzhak ben Zev ha-Cohen) Fliegner

Holocaust martyre.

Son of merchant (Spirits) and farm-owner in Horodyszcze (near Sambor/Sambir) Wolf Fliegner. His mother was Anna, born Ikler, a farm-owner's daughter in Horodyszcze.

Henryk Fliegner graduated from secondary level at the Gimnazjum of Sambor/Sambir. As he was in Medicine Propedeutics at the Lwów/Lviv University Jan Kazimierz, a numerus clausus was issued against Jewish students, and Henryk Fliegner would never achieve becoming a medical doctor. With help from the University however, he was admitted in Law studies, and graduated at Masters level at the same Jan Kazimierz University (nowadays University Ivan Franko, https://www.lnu.edu.ua/en/).

In 1930 he post-graduated as Dr. jur. (Uniwersytet Jagielloński, Kraków, https://www.uj.edu.pl/).
Barrister in Lwów/Lviv (12, ulica Romanowicza, nowadays Saksahanskoho) and at the Appeal Court of Sambor.
Infantry reserve officer (Sambor 6th infantry regiment).

Dr. Fliegner studied mainly with Pr. Maurycy Allerhand, who was also a friend of the family, with Pr. Stanisław Kutrzeba, and Pr. Kazimierz Władysław Kumaniecki, the latter being H. Fliegner's Promotor for the doctorate.

Henryk Fliegner married on feb. 16th 1930. The wedding reception took place at Lwów, on Głowinskiego street 10 (today Chernihivska).

At the time he married, H. Fliegner was living on Kazimierzowska street (today Horodotska) 43. The couple moved before their daughter's birth to Lindego 9 (today Ferenca Liszta). After, they settled on Romanowicza 12 till 1941. Their social range in Poland was wide, as well as in Germany, Czechoslovakia, Romania. They also belonged to a social club in Lwów and Sambor.

During the soviet occupation of Galicy (Sept. 1939- Jun. 1941), Henryk Fliegner couldn't be a barrister anymore, so he managed to find a position as a Math teacher in a secondary school in Lwów. After June 1941, he was sent with his wife and daughter to the Lwów ghetto, and then to the camp of Janów. A close friend of the family, Pr. Włodzimierz Kuczer, obtained from the nazis the liberation of the Fliegner family in november 1942; but as his wife and daughter had eventually left Janów, Henryk could not be freed in time, and was sent to Bełżec where he was assassinated.

WE REMEMBER

The Fliegner family of Horodyszcze had once direct relatives in Kyiv, Odessa, Tiflis, as well as Kaunas (a Berlow-Noyk family), and is related to the Fligner family of Lorain, Ohio, USA, descended from Harry Fligner.

(Source:

- Archive Karola Fliegner-Giroud.

- Archiwum Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, Kraków, Poland.

- Naczelna Rada Adwokacka archive, Warsaw, Poland.

- Ilustrowany informator miasta Lwowa: ze spisem miejscowości wojewodztwa lwowskiego: na rok 1939, p 23, (on http://www.pbc.pl.)

- www.jwmww2.org/ktsinim iehudim betsava polin (written in hebrew for Jewish officers in the Polish Armed Forces), page summing-up the important book by lieut.col. (ret) Benjamin Meirtchak about jewish officers in Poland, and providing an exhaustive alphabetical list of them.

- D.H.R.P. - Blblioteka genealogii polskiej - WP - Oficerowie Rezerwy 1934r , and Lista starszeństwa oficerów Rezerwy piechoty - Starszeństwo z dniem 1-go stycznia 1931r (on http://www.genealogia.okiem.pl).

- State Archive Warsaw.

- Lviv Archive Department, Lviv, Ukraine.)