Leon Selinger was born April 11, 1930 in Drohobycz, Poland. After the Nazi invasion, he escaped deportation for a time by going into temporary hiding places, but was eventually picked up with his father and brother and taken to Auschwitz-Birkenau, Gleiwitz, and Mauthausen. When he was 11 years old, he was separated from his father and brother at Dachau and sent to a Nazi death camp. Four years later, on April 24 1945, he was liberated near Flossenburg after having lost his mother and his younger brother. He reunited with his father and brother near Regensburg and at the age of 15 years old, not speaking a word of English, he immigrated to the United States in 1947. He served in the United States military and married Shelley Selinger, whom he met at a dance. They had a son named Mark. Leon passed away on June 25, 2012 in Sheepshead Bay, New York after a battle with liver cancer.

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