By Daily Mail Reporter Survivor: Leon Leyson was the youngest Jewish survivor of the Holocaust spared by being on Schindler's List. Oskar Schindler kept an eye on the Leyson family among the hundreds of other Jews he saved. 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.
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Leon Leyson, a 13-year-old Jew living in Krakow was the youngest factory worker put on Oskar Schindler's list which saved thousands from the death camps
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Known as Little Leyson, he worked in Schindler's factory by standing on an upturned box
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