Youngest 'Schindler's List' survivor dies at 83 in Southern California.

Youngest 'Schindler's List' survivor dies at 83 in Southern California.(CNSnews).Leon Leyson, who was the youngest of 1,100 Jews saved from the Nazis by Oscar Schindler, has died in Southern California at 83.
His daughter, Stacy Wilfong, tells the Los Angeles Times (http://lat.ms/WUllpf ) that Leyson died Saturday in Whittier from lymphoma.
Leyson was nearly 10 when Germany invaded Poland in 1939. He lost two brothers during the Holocaust but was protected by Schindler and at 13 worked in his factory. Dubbed "Little Leyson," he was so short that he stood on a box to operate machinery.
He later moved to the U.S. and taught at Huntington Park High School for 39 years.
Leyson rarely spoke of his experiences until the 1993 movie "Schindler's List" sparked renewed interest. He then embarked on a public speaking career to share his story.
Two of his brothers were killed. Older brother Hershel had fled to the family's village and died in a massacre of its 500 residents.
Another brother, Tsalig, was taken from the ghetto and placed on a train to a concentration camp. In "Schindler's List," the Steven Spielberg movie based on the book by Thomas Keneally, Schindler is shown getting on the train to save his accountant. He recognized Leyson's brother and tried to save him, but the 16-year-old refused to budge because he was with his girlfriend, who was not on Schindler's list of employees.
"Leon could never make it through this painful part of his talk without breaking down," but didn't stop there because of "his determination and tenacity to keep telling the story," said William Elperin, president of the 1939 Club, an organization of Holocaust survivors and descendants.
After seeing the movie at a screening, Leyson was awed, particularly by scenes showing boys running from the Nazi commandos. "It was like having an out-of-body experience," he told The Times, "because those little kids who were … trying to get away from the Sondercommando — that was me. That was my friends."Hmmm........."Never Again".Read the full story here, more here.