Madera South students to share full story of Schindler’s List

Schindler’s List, Stephen Spielberg’s 1993 blockbuster movie on how one Nazi businessman found his soul, and saved more than 1,000 Jews from the gas chambers, will be the background for a Madera Method project at Madera South High School.

Valerie Shelton’s Historical Literacy class will use the recently found interviews with Leon Leyson, the youngest survivor of Schindler’s List, to unveil a deeply personal view of his rescue from the Nazi death camps.

The interviews were conducted by historian Bill Coate in Leyson’s Fullerton home, and produced by KMPH Television. They give a first person account of one person’s debt to Oskar Schindler for his life.