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Leon Leyson, who was among the youngest of the refugees to be saved from the Holocaust by German businessman Oskar Schindler, has died.
He was 83.
Leyson was 10 years old when Poland was invaded by the Nazis and 13 when he started to work for Schindler, the hero in Steven Spielberg's 1993 Oscar-winning movie, "Schindler's List."
Many of Leyson's family members died in the Holocaust. Leon, his parents, older brother and sister survived.
Leyson and his family moved to the United States in 1949.
It wasn't long before he was drafted into the U.S. Army. He often spoke about how grateful he was to serve his new country.
The youngest of 1,100 Jews saved by the Nazis by Oskar Shindler, Leon Leyson taught high school for nearly 40 years in Southern California. NBC's Brian Williams reports.
A counselor at Los Angeles City College helped him get his education, and he became a teacher at Huntington Park High School.
He taught students there for 39 years. He lived in Fullerton with his wife, Liz, and raised two children.
For a long time, most people didn't know Leon was a Holocaust survivor. It wasn't until "Schindler's List" came out that Leyson began talking about what happened to him and his family.
He began talking at elementary schools, high schools and college campuses.
He told students about losing his freedom, how he was hungry and frightened.
He talked about losing family members, including a beloved older brother.
"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 when he was the subject of a 30-minute profile with NBC4's Fritz Coleman.
Related: Watch the rest of the Leyson documentary on NBCLosAngeles.com
Leyson spoke at the the Orange County's Chapman University often. In 2011, he was awarded an honorary doctorate.
When he heard about that, he joked, "I'm really speechless. I'll be a doctor, so if you have a headache, come see me."
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Thank you for your service, Mr. Leyson.
May your efforts to bring the truth to generations be not in vain. Heartbreaking to hear about but these are historical facts that need to be remembered.
Nice quote, too bad most Christians do not follow his advice.
Thoughts and prayers to any family and friends. Glad he had a good life after he came to America.
RIP, Mr. Leyson.
The History Channel has a two-part documentary that aired in 2010 entitled The Third Reich: Rise and Fall. It is the best documentary I have ever seen about this horrific period in time and how Hitler was able to brainwash and control the German citizenry. It is uniquely told in the words of the German people, from diaries, letters, their own film footage, and live testimonies of Germans who lived through it.
One part that stays with me is the film footage when American soldiers liberated one of the concentration camps and then forced the neighboring German townspeople to walk through the camps and view the stacks of corpses. Some villagers said they were unaware of what was happening in those camps, but you know some of them must have known. Then, the American GIs made the German people and the German soldiers that were captured, dig the graves and bury the dead.
A sobering documentary, it is four hours long. But, it explains a lot about how good people can be led to believe and follow a sociopathic dictator.
They could smell the smoke from the ovens. They were lying.
curious jason,
It is too bad that your ignorance and resultant hate of Christianity has blinded you so. I pray that you open your eyes and are converted.
I guarantee that Christians saved a whole lot more Jews and other out groups than did atheists in Nazi Germany.
NC, what justified that attack? All jason said was that most Christians can do better. Even many Christians agree with that. Your defensiveness is blinding you.
God Bless you Leon. Rest in Peace.
Many helped Jews escape. Not enough obviously, but considering the times they lived in, they were putting their lives on the line in doing so. Brave souls. I'd like to think that I would be so brave if ever put to the test.
There's a special place in Paradise for them.
jason on what do you base your "most Christians" comment? Have you interviewed them all. I tell you true you are very wrong.
jock,
Maybe you did not understand what jason said. He did not say that Christians could do better; he said most Christians do not do as the quote in the comment before his, thereby implying that "most" Christians do nothing and condone evil.
It was nasty and uncalled for. So, I "opposed" it.
How would he know what most Christians would do?
NC,
Hmmm good Christians, lets see during WWII lots of god fearing "Christian" Germans, French, Dutch, Poles, Hungarians etc., knew what was happening to the Jews but turned a blind eye and did nothing, in fact many actually assisted in the deportations.
With a few exceptions many of the "Christians" in Germany and occupied Europe did nothing. Suggest you read and do a bit more research on what occured in Europe during WWII, you may not like what you find out, sometimes the truth can be ugly.
Don't forget that Stalin killed many Jews, Pols, various political prisoners, and people of his own... Some say equaling 20 million.
Some forum members might want to read Hitler's Willing Executioners.
Nazi Germany was a Christian nation, first and foremost.
The Christian SS guards at the extermination camps went to church on Sunday and prayed to God and Jesus for victory over the godless communists.
The region between Berlin and Moscow between 1914 and 1945 was a bloodbath of incomprehensible proportions.
We, as a nation, should never forget what actually happened.
No one is suggesting we've forgotten what Stalin did, however, that is not relevant to this story.
During the early years of war, German Jews were standing in front of US Consulate in Berlin in line for days, trying to get a visa to United States. Most were denied such visa by the Americans.
Right... and where are the stories of those saved from Stalin's atrocities?
I have visited the Holocaust Museum in DC and was shocked at how little the US did for the Jews at the beginning of the war. Because of concerns about "immigration", many were turned away. Let this be a lesson to us about closing our doors to those trying to survive persecution.
Nazis were only too happy to let Jews emigrate to other countries. Problem was - nobody wanted them. US, Canada, Australia, Britain simply turned their backs on Jews. And the Jews did not want to go to Madagascar, the new Jewish homeland made available by the Germans in their African colony.
If you've never been to a camp and never lived under an actual dictatorship, you cannot easily understand. You can fingerpoint all you want, but helping others at times is simply impossible. How do you help anyone when the army is everywhere and you have perhaps a shovel or a scythe? It's absurd.
I've seen Martial Law in Poland, and I lived in the former Czechoslovakia.
I saw Aushwitz in 1994 and I can still remember it like it was yesterday. There are no sounds. No animals are present -- I saw nor heard any birds, rodents, or even bugs. It is absolutely still except for the shuffling of feet and the occasional low voice. It's unnerving... the sun was shining, but you felt cold. It's easy to look at the watchtowers and the double wire and imagine the soldiers there.
Nothing lives in the lake where the ashes were deposited, it's theorized it may never harbor life again. The rooms with the ovens and the showers still have a smell that you don't recognize but makes you feel uneasy. The railroad tracks give one a sickening feeling... you think that most people when they got out must have realized this was the end.
When you see something like that, you know what evil is. And you cannot say "well, Nazi Germany was a Christian Nation... or Stalin's Soviet Union was an Orthodox nation or Mao's China was Taoist, or Pol Pot's Cambodia was Buddist". They were not. Regimes that have done such evil are not in good standing with their religions -- they are as the Taliban are today: murderous renegades that need to be stopped.
Thank you, MarkfromBridgeport.
Very well said and indeed true.
Mark
Thank you for putting it in perspective.
The US and allies denied help for the Jews until the liberations, even when they knew what was going on, FDR refused a request to have 1 bomber drop its payload on the railroad tracks leading into Auschwitz. In 5th grade I had a teacher that escaped from Auschwitz with a friend, they were both young girls, I wish I had fully understood it then.
Well, I think it is easy to have hindsight about what FDR should or should not have done, but I recall my elderly parents saying how President Roosevelt did everything possible to keep America out of the war in Europe as long as he did because he knew it would be at great cost to American lives.
silverton-2953905
He knew what was happening, this was toward the end of the war, it was inexcusable, he was asked for 1 plane out of hundreds on 1 bombing run against the Nazi's to drop its payload on the tracks. 1 plane out of hundreds.
Maybe as the President of the United States he knew something that we don't.
You would think the reporter might have anticipated the obvious question we all have. Was he the last one or how many are left?
I tried to find how many are left. I was able to count 15 but some sources said that there was 60 to 70.
Thank You for the research I was just about to do the same. When I was younger and in the service in California there was a gentlemen that worked on base and also was a concentration camp survivor. To listen to him talk about losing his whole family and living in a concentration camp made myself appreciate more of what I had. He was "spared" for he was a young man and able to work in the camp. It was heart felt to listen to him on what kept him going to survive after losing everything.
I know a woman who survived thanks to Schindlers List . She is a remarkable lovely woman....
I got to know this guy and would stop buy and speak with him. The life he told of living in the concentration camp on the brink of starvation. When liberated to start life over with nothing, literally with nothing, not even as much as a photo of your family. He went back to where he lived and it was gone! Literally gone! The sadness and despair he must of felt could not be explained. He would not say witch camp he was in or where he was from for as it said everything is gone and it does not exist. How to have that feeling!
Rest In Peace Leon...
Absolutely an amazing story. Many thanks to Schindler and people like him. And...there were truly many, but unfortunately not enough.
RIP Leon Leyson
Thank you, Mr. Leyson, for your services to this country, as a soldier and as a teacher. I'm sorry that in your lasst years you had to endure the denial that your greatest sorrow and pain even existed.
Rest in Peace.
My daughter attended Chapman University and spoke often of lectures and other events with individuals such as Mr. Leysen. It made an indelible impression on her and fellow students. He was truly a hero in many ways.
Raising a glass in your honor Leon Leyson♥. I know that G-d has welcomed you home with full honors and you are with your past loved ones who died in such a horrible way. Rest in peace Mr. Leyson.
RIP
RIP sorry to see such a man of character pass....we have so few left. Thank you for your service sir. Prayers and love to your family. Had it not been for Mr. Schindler those prayers and love would fall on deaf ears but because of him there are actually family member to carry on and honor your memory sir. Despite everything you endured you lived a beautiful life.....May G-d wrap you in warmth and light.
We never know what burdens others may carry from the past, which we cannot see with our eyes. Nor the bravery exhibited by some, when an hour of need comes to stand up against great evil when it befalls others. Too often, it is so easy to just stand by and do nothing when prejudices, harassment's and constant blatent labeling against others is shown. Because we are not the target. Considering it both not our business, and others right to express their freedom to say how they feel in this country of freedoms. Even online, there can be a pack mentality. Just look at what happens if one mentions certain topics. When people express their opinions.Is it any wonder, people will not say a word when folks become targeted by a government, taken away? Could you stand up for strangers?
However, when hatred, bigotry and prejudice becomes tolerated, it is like a poison, which infects a body, weakening and causing damages which will ultimate lead to death unless removed.
The Holocaust was allowed because some people encouraged and tolerated hatred, prejudice, and blame to be focused on certain groups of people. While others stood by and didn't say a single word , nor express any anger in the very beginning. That part of the human nature side which says,"Why should I care?" long before it gets to possibly too scared to dare.
Silence became approval, regardless of feeling uncomfortable. For actions spoke louder than words. Except for men like Schindler. All that is needed for good to triumph, is for good men to do nothing.When the last Holocaust survivor is long dead, who will stand up and fight for the rights of people to be free of discrimination and prejudice? Pointing to such an evil time in history.The longer time passes from an event, the less relevant it becomes to those living.With no more personal witnesses to that evil's legecies, how will each generation be inspired to care and make a difference from history's lessons?
Even today, in the United States, evil continues to cause tragedy, while people step aside, choosing to remove themselves, ignoring the problems as being that of others concern.How quickly we forget and move on.Busy with our own personal problems unless we are struck down.Believing it the government's job to solve such things.
As a society, it is truly all of us, working together and taking part, to help insure each citizen is treated fairly, by our government. Ultimately trusted to do their jobs by us.For those who continue a course of voluntary blindness to abuse, what recourse do they plan,if it happens to them? For by the time a crisis is upon one, is not the time to plan.
Truly Schindler was a miracle worker to way over a thousand people, whose lives he saved. In a time when so many chose to do nothing.As a young Leyson and those family members who did survive were blessed to be part of.
I really hope people will realize the difference they can make, even though we aren't in war fighting enemies on our soil, by standing up against all those who spew hatred, do prejudice acts of any kind towards others.Teach their children about that time in our history.Letting them know, it is unacceptable. Just because we have freedom of speech to hear hatred, prejudice and violence towards others promoted, doesn't mean we want to hear it or it is acceptable.It is okay to let such who promote it know that. And to use our same rights to denounce such beliefs, while encouraging tolerance, peace, unity and willingness to always stand together for justice.
There are many people who never talked about the horrors they had to endure back then. Even Mr. Leyson did not speak about what his life was like until the movie came out. Steven Spielberg and his crew spent a long time after the movie filming survivors' stories. For some of them, it was the first time they spoke about their past lives. One of my friends grew up not even knowing her father was on one of the boats filled with refugees that were turned away from a number of ports back then. It wasn't until much, much later that she heard the story.
All it takes for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing. We are in the US a country divided, this has been going on a long time, and nobody should blame just one political party, there is plenty of blame to go around. Mr. Leyson exhibits a common characteristic among those who serve in the military of this great nation. In my time in the US Army, we witnessed things that are hard to talk about, and worse to remember, which makes us grateful for what we do have. In my humble opinion, it would be beneficial to mandate military service to all able bodied citizens, and certainly to any who have political ambitions, that would allow for a better appreciation of out freedoms and opportunities. In closing I include a quote from a Slovakian Lutheran minister, of the Nazi era,.....
Yes, I first read this many, many years ago and I has stuck with me. We allneed to remember and repeat it often.
god you hit it on the nail head i wish with all my heart that people would look to history and the day that we forget it will happen again and my prayers are to all the family of mr leyson rest in peace your job is done thank you for you servive and your teaching of our children now its time to be with your family god speed
Beautifully put. Thank you.
No WAY 6 million Jews died. Even IF there WERE 6 million Jews, far more Russians died. Who weeps for them? Fuuuuuuuuuuuuck Israel.
Shame on you.
Shame you can not erase true history. Only learn from it.
Allen Bennett Russell, there were some 2 million Jews in Germany in 1925, some 2 million Jews in Poland in 1931. Not to mention French, Dutch, Belgian, Hungarian, Austrian, Italian, Ukrainian, Belorussian, Lithuanian, Estonian, Latvian, etc. Jews, there is ample statistical evidence that the number of potential victims is CERTAINLY sufficient for the figure of six million dead.
These people did not simply evaporate; the Nazis murdered them en masse. Come to grips with this reality and reject those worthless people who deny the evils of this period.
Mr. Russell I don't often have feelings of hate but morons like you piss me off. A pox on you and your house. May you know the suffering that you so richly deserve.
World, meet evil. This is the type of thinking which MUST never be allowed to be duplicated, or we will end our species. My family was directly affected by this evil called Hitler, not in the way that they were victims, but would have been forced to be part of the horror against the victims. It was NOT fiction. Folks like Allen Bennett Russell have nothing but bad intentions by their denials.
Don't feed the "Trolls." Your angry responses are what feeds them. Ignore them.
Allen- Can you possibly be that stupid?
The better part of this guy ran down his mother's leg.
Dunn, you mean up her ass.
Wow- ignorance abounds. Mr Russell, I am the daughter of a woman who grew up in Germany during WWII as a teenager. I am also the daughter of a Jew that escaped being sent to the concentration camp and was able to come to US. My mother lost her father in the war, though my great aunt wanted to hide him when he was on leave, because she heard on Radio Free Europe that the Americans were coming to liberate, he said, no, for they will come after my family. That was the last time they saw him, and he was so against the war and madness. My father became a US citizen and proudly served in the US military for 30 yrs (he met my mother when stationed in Germany). I am proud of my family history. I am also a Republican! My parents saw many horrors. And, I have lived all over the world as an Army brat and wife. To an earlier poster, no, the Germans did not know they were killing the Jews. They thought they were being deported. The Germans lived under a dictatorship, not free to live their lives. Many were hauled away in the middle of the night if they even said a bad thing regarding Hitler. Many of my dad's family died in the concentration camps. And the horror stories I have heard from survivors, no on can imagine. I agree, sad that not everyone has served in the military, and come to understand other cultures. Then maybe such ignorance would be erased. Maybe respect, appreciation and understanding would be learned. Our nation is so large, some do not even try to understand the history and culture of other countries. However, they know so much about us! To those who post ignorance and racism, please choose to educate yourself and grow out of your closed, little minds. Stop lumping ideals and thoughts as politics. And, stop harboring the ignorance that Hitler and many other dictators bore themselves. Mr Leyson, rest in peace, and thank you for being a wonderful American! Ruhe in Frieden.
My wife's father was born in Germany. About 1 year into the war he was visited by a friend, a peddler whom he had done business with for several years. He bought several small items of furniture from him. He did not try to hide this. Several days latter he was arrested for having given financial support to a Jew. He spent a month in jail. Several months latter his friend returned to visit late one nite & hoped to sell him something. He was told it couldn't be much as her fathers time in jail had hurt them money wise. Also it would have to be small whatever it was. They gave him some bread & sausage. The man told them all he had left was a watch & some family jewelry. They gave him all the money they had left & told him to return in one week to see if they could raise any more. They learned from him his family had been arrested.
Her father sold the watch. The next day he was arrested for giving financial aid to a Jew. This time he was sent to a work camp for one year. When he was released he was told that if he joined the army in 1 week his family would be left alone. Once home he learned several members of his family had been beaten & only 1 was allowed to work. He joined the Army, served as a medic in Russia, & later was transferred to France where he was captured by the US Army & held as a POW.
He never spoke to his daughter about any of this, nor did his wife, though she did find some papers related to his arrest & release when she was a teenager. She was afraid to ask as she had been snooping. Years latter, after her parents death, an aunt told her the story. She asked about the peddler, he was well known, but no one had ever seen him again.
What is the matter with you?!
Will the final survivor be known as "Schindler's Last"?
RIP...
Allen Bennett Russell
No wonder America is heading in the down direction it is. For asinine, ignorant, and uneducated, people like Russell. What else can we expect from socialist morons? Nothing! Typical Liberal.
I wonder how many of these "damn libruhl" posters are actually serious or just clever trolls.
Russell is a stupid ass, but how do you know he is a "socialist liberal?" He is just a stupid jerk so please don't say he is a liberal or even a tea-bagger. That's how prejudice and hatred grows, when we stop looking at people as individuals but as a group that we generically label as evil.
It is extremely unlikely that any liberal would be a Holocaust denier. Liberals are the people who are most opposed to bigotry, racism and intolerance.
For those who are advocates of denying the Holocaust, you are choosing not to believe just because you want an excuse to keep hating Jews. In fact, if most of you had lived in Germany in the thirties and forties, you probably would have very much enjoyed shoving babies into the gas chambers. So you don't impress me. You disgust me. You don't deserve to be identified as human.
Allen is a pathetic troll and this is the only way he can get attention so please ignore him.
Oh my underemployed, you must be a liberal. The only difference between a liberal and a conservative is the way they are facing.
PLEASE do not make this about politics - there are a ton of other articles that I am sure you guys can put the political spin on. However, the Holocaust, its survivors, and their passing are not the place for the liberal v conservative debate. Some of us want to read about the life of this man and not have to flip through pages of comments whining about political stances. It is so disrespectful.
By definition, liberals would never deny the Holocaust. Did FDR? He was a liberal and defeated Hitler. Somehow these labels have gotten so twisted.
HoloHoax Survivors
We have much photographic evidence of the Nazi concentration camps thanks in part to General Dwight Eisenhower who ordered as much documentation be made as possible because he knew that fools like yourself would try to deny that it ever happened.
My late uncle served in Europe in WW2. He once told me stories of the concentration camps he visited weeks after they had been liberated. Inmates were still dying in great numbers, as they were too sick to recover. The stench you could smell for miles, even after weeks of cleaning. He had NO Doubt that far more than 6 million people were exterminated. The process was very 'efficient' and had priority for resources. Since so many bodies were burned, we can never know how many really were killed. My uncle, from what he saw, believed it was easily millions more. The Germans were noted for their 'efficiency' long before this.
Yep ike was likely the wisest leader in the twentieth century. I did not appreciate him because at the time I was a liberal. We all make mistakes.
Not stories.
My father was in the 71st Infantry Division and involved in the liberation of Mauthausen. When he finally talked about it, his stories were every bit as horrible as to what they found when they went in.
He never spoke of that place again.
Fuzzy ,the uneducated are typically Teabaggers. That's why your Party always attacks colleges and schools.But we both know this story wasn't about your ignorant,political rantings. Was it? I bet Mr. Leyson loved FDR.
Ahhh, name calling. The mark of a thoughtful, well reasoned and persuasive argument.
Sorry to spoil your argument with facts, but according to the CNN exit polls people with no high school diploma voted approximately 2/3 Obama to 1/3 Romney. People with a high school education split 51/48 for Obama. People with a college degree split 51/47 for Romney.
willie53
MY PARTY? What party would that be? I never said that I was a Democrat, Republican, Independent or whatever! Glad you think you know so much as you are showing what a SCHMUCK you really are, no matter what party, if any you are part of.
denver bill 2,
Nobody cares who voted for Romney any more. He lost. He is no longer relevant.
I agree. Mitt Romney is as irrelevant to a discussion of governance as your comment is to a discussion of the education level of voters.
Doubt it. FDR turned away boat loads of Jewish refugees trying to escape the Third Reich (didn't want to 'get involved' in the war at that time) and sent them back to their deaths.
anybody notice he has blue eyes?? I thought only Aryans have blue eyes??
What a stupid question. I'm Jewish and I have blue eyes.
so your half jewish and half aryan...wgat was stupid about the question @!$%# FACE??? oh I know your one of those @!$%#s who say "kiss me am Jewish" I dont like being called stupid man
Several of my relatives survived due to the work of Oscar Schindler. They died much to early. To read about an honorable man such as Leon Leyson I am reminded that there were those who did what they could against pure evil. To those commenting here who have rocks instead of brains, you should be ashamed of revealing your utter stupidity and lack of compassion.
We were taught about the holocaust in school when I was a child, but it did not come alive for me until I saw Schindler's List. I've seen the movie maybe 50 times and still cry everytime I see it. The fact that so many survived is nothing short of miraculous. What amazes me more is that so many who experienced these horrors still had the courage to relive the memories so often to make sure that we remain aware of the potential evil that can be harbored in mankind's heart. I have nothing but the utmost respect for these survivors and mourn the passing of every one of them.
That you for being a real American, Mr. Leyson.
A great American and a great person. I worry though as the rest of the camp survivors die that soon we will have more non believers in the holocaust and the chance of it happening again.
Unfortunately, the ill-informed, ignorant, and essentially worthless human beings who are non-believers can put a spin on anything. Apparently, Holocaust survivors are just actors who are paid to tell fabricated stories. Those who truly think the Holocaust did not happen have such a twisted mind, it is not even worth it to try to get them to see the truth. My father grew up and remembers numbers tattooed on the arms of his aunt and uncle, never being allowed to ask why because the memories were too much for them to recount. It was truly a horrible, horrible moment in our world history.. those of us who are compassionate understand the travesty... and let's not waste another breath on the idiots who don't.
Harry McNicholas
I can't quite explain why but I too mourn not just for Mr. Leyson but for the loss of all survivors and veterans. It's like WWII events are becoming stories in books and not living experiences. It is a loss for everyone when the human element is lost, inevitable of course, but sad.
The atrocities of Hitler and the Nazi's can never be denied, hidden, removed, or disavowed by civilization and history. I am of Polish descent. I had the distinct pleasure of visiting my home country. During this visit, I was awakened to the realities of this genocidal persecution with a tour of Auschwitz internment camp. One can easily imagine the suffering. I'm sure the tortured screams of forsaken souls can still be heard in the wind. RIP Mr. Leyson. May regimes and the men who create and perpetuate them never walk the earth again. Amen.
So let it be written, so let it be done.
I was fortunate enough to hear Mr. Leyson speak at CSU Los Angeles a couple of years ago. The audience was packed with people. We were all amazed by him. He was a fascinating and inspirational speaker and an incredibly kind man. May he rest in peace.
I can't believe that some people today don't believe the Holocaust ever happened. RIP Leon Leyson. I am glad you survived and told your story
We will never forget, ever.
Hilter was such a evil man that hated jews, Mr. Schindler saved many jews, still alot of hate thru out the world today for jews and Israel .
I don't equate Israel to Jews. Israel as a nation has some pretty hateful policies of their own. Obviously nothing to compare to the Nazis, but their harsh treatment of the Palestinians has generated much hate.
Michael, the treatment of the Palestinians is not hateful as you think. That's Islamist propaganda. The area had more Jews than Muslims in the late 1800s, only 50 years before Israel was made a state. Even William Seward, Lincoln's Secretary of State, visited the area and said it was primarily Jewish.
Get educated. See: http://www.israeldailypicture.com/2012/12/150-years-ago-in-jerusalem-this-is.html
Now, there are NO Jews in Gaza or the West Bank or Jordan--THE Palestinian state, even though they had been there since long before Islam was invented by Mohammed. And there are plenty of Muslims in ISrael. 1/5 the country is not Jewish.
A good reading assignment for everyone:
The Holocaust Industry, by Norman Finkelstein.
Surprised you weren't recommending Mein Kampf, Jay.
Do you post about The Slavery Industry, too, POS?