Osher UCSD: Leon Leyson
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K-12 Educational Standards

Standards for Grade(s): 10

World History, Culture, and Geography: The Modern World

10.8 Students analyze the causes and consequences of World War II.

5. Analyze the Nazi policy of pursuing racial purity, especially against the European Jews; its transformation into the Final Solution; and the Holocaust that resulted in the murder of six million Jewish civilians.

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California State Board of Education Content Standards

 

First Aired: 5/26/2008
59 minutes

Holocaust survivor Leon Leyson reflects on his incredible luck that put him on the infamous "Schindler's List," sparing him from a disastrous fate in Nazi Germany. (#14221)