I would go 3 million miles to save one child from hate’ says Holocaust survivor

REBECCA PERRING

HOLOCAUST survivor Leslie Kleinman says he would travel a million miles to “save just one child from hate”, 70 years after a US soldier liberated him from Auschwitz in Poland.

Leslie Kleinman tells his remarkable story

Leslie – now aged 85 – decided for the very first time to tell his remarkable story as a young Jewish boy in Nazi Germany after 60 years of silence, because he was keen to “educate the next generation.”

“I never spoke of the Holocaust in 60 years, I didn’t want to speak about it, didn’t want to know about it.

“But I had a vision come to me, telling me you should go and speak to the children because they are the new generation.

“Talk with love, like you were brought up – my father and parents brought me up with love.

“We were so poor but there was always love in our home and I want to pass the message on to the children of how it important it is to appreciate everybody with love and care.

“The only way we will have peace in the world is by doing that.

“As long as I shall live, I will tell my story to the children and educate them. If I can save one child, believe me I will go 3 million miles.”

And now 70 years away from the darkness and horrors of the Holocaust, Leslie, who now lives in Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex has continued to try and do just that.

Leslie and his family

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