Walter Josef Fleisch was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 1922 to Zalman Sally and Selma. He was teenager. Prior to WWII he lived in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. During the war he was in Australia, Australia. Walter Josef survived the Shoah.
Jews deported to or imprisoned in camps, ghettos or forced labor frameworks, who were in hiding, in clandestinity or resistance formations, or suffered relentless persecution under antisemitic legislation in territories controlled by the Nazis or their allies, and were alive by the end of 1945 are considered Shoah survivors.