Leon Ginsburg

Not to be confused with Leon Ginzburg, Leo Ginzburg, Leone Ginzburg, or Lev R. Ginzburg.

Leon Ginsburg (born Noah Ginzburg; June 12, 1932 – March 10, 2014) was a Polish-American Holocaust survivor and the subject of several books on World War II. Known as a child by his Yiddish nickname "Noike" or "Noikele", he was the only child survivor from Maciejów – a shtetl of 5,000 in eastern Poland (now part of Ukraine) – after Poland was invaded in 1939 and the Nazis entered his town in the summer of 1941.

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