Leon Leyson

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been murdered. It was beyond belief. As she thought of her parents, my mother could only whisper.".(173-174).

[Leon Leyson @LeonLeyson2]

"My father related his devastating news... Following the invading German army, mobile killing squads of the SS, called Einsatzgruppen, had swept through the villages of eastern Poland with the sole purpose of murdering Jews. they reached Narewka in August 1941. There they took

[Leon Leyson @LeonLeyson2]

All the Jewish men in the village, some 500, to a meadow near the forest, machine-gunned them down... The SS took the women and children to a nearby barn, where they were held for a day, and then they too were executed. In one blow, all of our extended family in Narewka... had

[Leon Leyson @LeonLeyson2]

Once the allies had won the war Schindler was forced to flee back to Germany with the rest of the Nazi officers. We were free.

[Leon Leyson @LeonLeyson2]

Immediately ordered the guards to pull the three of us out of line and to be sent back to camp."(146-147).

[Leon Leyson @LeonLeyson2]

As the allies got closer and closer every passing day the Jewish population at Plaszov was getting smaller. Eventually the Nazis received the order to execute all remaining Jews and to burn their bodies. Luckily for us Schindler convinced the Goeth that my family and I were great

[Leon Leyson @LeonLeyson2]

My family and I would have been executed along with the rest of the Jews at Plaszov but Schindler saved our family again. "I drew Schindlers attention immediately he turned around. That was my moment. 'We are being sent away!' I cried. 'My father and my brother and I! Schindler

[Leon Leyson @LeonLeyson2]

trailing off as the unlikelihood of this sank in. My father said nothing in reply."(136).

[Leon Leyson @LeonLeyson2]

"Father exchanged messages with Pesza my sister through a contact at the electrical works, but there was still nothing about Hershel (my oldest brother) or our other relatives in Narewka. Nor was there any news of Tsalig. 'He could be out there,' I once said to my father my voice

[Leon Leyson @LeonLeyson2]

I was reunited with my family at Schindlers sub camp were his workers would rest. This gave me hope of surviving this hell on earth.

[Leon Leyson @LeonLeyson2]

Here at Deutsche Emalwarenfabrik we are treated like actual people under Schindlers supervision. Nazis do not enter our living quarters without permission of Schindler. He is a much kinder manager than the Nazis at Plaszov. He talks to us and doesn’t criticize us for no reason. .

[Leon Leyson @LeonLeyson2]

While at Plaszov my father still kept his job working for Oskar Schindler at his glass factory. Schindler was a kind man, it was hard to believe he was a Nazi because he treated Jews like we were actual people, not as a waste of life like all the others.

[Leon Leyson @LeonLeyson2]

Goeth could do whatever he wanted, with our without reason."(120)

[Leon Leyson @LeonLeyson2]

In winter of 1943 I was ordered to shovel snow with a group of older men."Suddenly Goeth showed up and on a whim demanded that the guards lash each of us 25 times with their savage whips. None of us could figure out the provocation, but that did not matter . As Commandant

[Leon Leyson @LeonLeyson2]

After 11 months in the ghetto the rest if us Jews were relocated to Plaszóv, Nazi labor camp run by Nazi Commandant Amon Goeth. Goeth was a dark and twisted man, he was known to walk into the infirmary and shoot every patient present just because he was bored.

[Leon Leyson @LeonLeyson2]

Today my brother Tsalig was taken from us by German soldiers because he didn't have his own work papers even though my father had one fro both of them.

[Leon Leyson @LeonLeyson2]

My family and I, along with the rest of the Jews in Krakow, were escorted Ghettos set up just inside the city border. We were taken away from our home our father thad worked so hard to give us, he was devastated.

[Leon Leyson @LeonLeyson2]

rooted in concrete...The proud ambitious man that had brought his family to Krakow was powerless... Those were the worst moments of my life."(56-57).

[Leon Leyson @LeonLeyson2]

Last night the Gestapo broke into my home looking for something on a tip from our catholic neighbors. My father refused to hand anything over so they beat him." I was sickened by their ruthlessness. I wanted to run away so I didn't have to watch, but I felt like my feet were