Leon Leyson, the youngest person on Schindler's List, dies at 83

Leon Leyson was 13 years old when he became one of the 1,100 Jews rescued from the Nazis by German industrialist Oskar Schindler. Leyson, who died on Saturday at the age of 83, was the youngest person on Schindler's famous list, working in Schindler's Krakow factory until he emigrated to the United States and settled in Los Angeles. Leyson, a longtime schoolteacher and guidance counselor, rarely spoke of his experience during the Holocaust until the film version of "Schindler's List" prompted him to go on a speaking tour of the U.S. "The truth is, I did not live my life in the shadow of the Holocaust," Leyson said in 1997. "I did not give my children a legacy of fear. I gave them a legacy of freedom." [Source]

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