I Met This Man...

This is Leon Leyson.

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."

Ben & The Olympic Torch

Ben came home from daycare with this picture in his backback.

He didn't tell us about this special event at daycare. Apparently the director of the daycare new the woman who is in the white suit who ran with the torch and she agreed to bring it in to show the kids. When he was asked about it he was quite excited to tell us all about it. He said that it was pretty heave, but not too heavy for him! (Although it is almost as tall as he is!) He explained that when he was holding it he did a little jogging on the spot just like the runners with the torch did! We told him how special it is that he got to hold the torch and not many people get to touch it. Personally, I am a bit jealous. We are so proud of Ben!