Leon Ginsburg

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 Maciejówa 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.

Life Noah Ginzburg was born in Maciejów to Orthodox Jewish parents Pesia and Kalman Ginzburg.

Ginsburg was interviewed by Peter Jennings for his seminal book The Century (Doubleday, 1989) More recently, his story was written in its entirety by his daughter Suzanne under the title Noike: A Memoir of Leon Ginsburg (Avenger Books, 2012).