After watching the "Schindler's List" movie, i wanted to see how many survivors were still alive today. I found this article that said that the youngest survivor on Schindler's list died this year on January. His name was Leon Leyson and died at age 84. He was 13 years old when Schindler rescued him from the concentration camps. Schindler used to call him "Little Leyson" because he was the only person who had to stand on a box to reach the machinery. When the Holocaust was over, Leyson moved to Los Angeles, California and was a teacher for 39 years at Huntington Park high school. After the movie, Leyson embarked a public speaking career that took him around Canada and the US to share his story about the Holocaust. I thought this article was interesting because there was one survivor left and he accomplished many things after the Holocaust but sadly he died this year.
http://articles.latimes.com/2013/jan/14/local/la-me-leon-leyson-20130114
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