Leon is an amazing person with an amazing life story. He is courageous, lucky, kind, strong, and just plain amazing. I had the privaledge of hearing him speak at our school on Thurs. Leon is a survivor of the Holocaust. He is one of the survivors on Schindler's List. He told us his amazing story of life as a Jew and what being on Schindler's List meant to him and his family. He spoke for a little over and hour and it did not seem that long. His story was so riveting. He did lose 2 of his older brothers and his grandparents during this time but his parents, a brother, a sister and himself survived. He came to the US in 1949 as a displaced person and ended up in LA. He married and had two children of his own. I think it's important to remember this time in our history. Now, in the words of Leon himself, "You are all witnesses of what happened to me and you can share that so others don't forget."
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