What is Clear Choices

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Eva and Leslie are modern day heroes. They had kept silent about their experiences for many years, but now realized they had no choice but to share their powerful and compelling history. They endured incarceration during the Holocaust, which is arguably history’s darkest chapter. They have broken their silence in order to teach what hate and discrimination can do to innocent peoples lives. 

Leslie Aigner was a 15 year old boy in 1944. Due solely to his religion, he was taken from his home at the time in Budapest Hungary, and taken to the Auschwitz Concentration Camp in Poland. Les was liberated in Dachau Germany by American forces. After liberation he returned to his home and found out the most of his family was killed during the Holocaust. 

Eva Aigner was a 7 year old child, when she was taken from her family to the ghetto, in Budapest Hungary. She narrowly survived, but many of her family members were killed during the Holocaust. 

Les and Eva got married in Hungary in 1956 and at the same time escaped from Communism, with the great desire to build a new family in America. 

Since then, they have been on a crusade to change the world one person at a time. They have spoken to over 200,000 people at schools, universities, churches, synagogues and places of business. They were paramount figures in building the Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education. At the ages of 89 and 82 they continue as living legacies everyday. 

From Nazi death camps to Oregon: Holocaust survivors and a college student find understanding, inspiration

Holocaust survivors fly from Portland area to D.C. to visit memorial museum