"The youngest Jewish refugee to be saved from the Holocaust by Oskar Schindler has died. Leon Leyson, 83, was just 13 when he was taken on as a Schindler employee, he went on to live in Los Angeles, served in the U.S. army and worked as a teacher in industrial arts - keen to give something back to his adoptive country. Living in Krakow, he was 10 when the Nazis invaded Poland. Jews were forced to live in a ghetto but Leyon's father, Morris was one of the few men allowed out to work, NBC News reports. He was fortunate to have Oskar Schindler as his boss, a native German shocked by the horrors he saw committed by the Nazis and determined to try and save as many Jews as he could. In 1943, Schindler was granted permission to keep his workers in his own factory sub-camp. He secretly brought them more food and enabled them to live in conditions never permitted by the Nazis. Among them was the Leyson family, a family of seven who had moved to Krakow so Morris could find work. Because of Schindler's interventions and after being ultimately placed on his list of workers which meant they were save from the death camps, Leon survived alongside his parents and an older brother and sister. His other two brothers were killed. 'Five of us survived the war, this is the bottom line, out of everyone who was related to me in Poland. And we survived because we were on Schindler's list,' Leon said during an interview in 2008 on NBC4. The family moved to the U.S. in 1949. Leyson built up a good relationship with Schindler, who risked his life hiring hundreds of extra Jewish workers during the war, to save them. " Youngest Holocaust survivor on Schindler's List dies in Los Angeles home aged 83 | Mail Online
