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Related: About this forumLeon Leyson dies at 83; youngest survivor on Schindler's List
Leyson was one of the 1,100 Jews saved from the Nazis by German industrialist Oskar Schindler. He taught school in Huntington Park for 39 years and shared his survival story with others.
By Elaine Woo, Los Angeles Times
January 13, 2013, 8:29 p.m.
Among the 1,100 Jews saved from the Nazis by German industrialist Oskar Schindler was an emaciated 13-year-old boy named Leon Leyson, who had to stand on a box to reach the machinery in the Krakow factory where Schindler sheltered him and his family.
The boy Schindler called "Little Leyson" survived the Holocaust to start life over in Los Angeles. He taught high school in Huntington Park for 39 years, rarely mentioning to anyone the pain and perils he experienced during the war that claimed the lives of 6 million Jews.
Then came the celebrated 1993 movie "Schindler's List," which ignited public interest in the stories of Holocaust survivors. Coaxed into breaking five decades of near-silence on the subject, Leyson the youngest member of the group rescued by Schindler embarked on a public speaking career that took him across the United States and Canada to share his story about coming of age during the Nazis' brutal reign.
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Leyson, a longtime resident of Fullerton, died Saturday in Whittier after a four-year battle with lymphoma, his daughter Stacy Wilfong said. He was 83.
More: http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-leon-leyson-20130114,0,3835673.story
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Leon Leyson dies at 83; youngest survivor on Schindler's List (Original Post)
ellisonz
Jan 2013
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CaliforniaPeggy
(149,688 posts)1. May he rest in peace!
Behind the Aegis
(53,979 posts)2. Rest in Peace, Mr. Leyson.
Beartracks
(12,821 posts)3. Thank you for posting. And thank YOU, Mr. Leyson...
... for sharing your story. R.I.P.
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Skittles
(153,185 posts)4. huge K&R
eridani
(51,907 posts)5. What an amazing person
Safe journey, Mr. Leyson.
meti57b
(3,584 posts)6. May his memory be a blessing.