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11/9/09
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'Schindler's List' worker to speak
Holocaust survivor recounts escape from Nazi death camps
The youngest survivor of “Schindler’s List” will visit Folsom to discuss his ordeal. Leon Leyson, will recount his harrowing escape from the Nazi death camps and his experience in the factory of Oscar Schindler during “Saved by an Angel: An Evening with Leon Leyson,” 7 p.m., Sunday, Nov. 29, at Folsom Lake College in Buckeye Hall. The event is sponsored by the Chabad Jewish Community Center in conjunction with the Multicultural Committee and Interdisciplinary Studies at Folsom Lake College. Admission is $15 in advance or $20 at the door. Leyson’s family was herded into Kracow’s Jewish ghetto in 1939, and many were reunited at Oscar Schindler’s factory. After the war, Leyson spent three years in a displaced persons camp near Frankfurt Am Main in Germany. For more information, call (916) 608 9811 or visit JewishFolsom.org. ~ Staff report
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