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Leica's Freedom Train Ernst Leitz II is knows as "the photography industry's Schindler." E. Leitz Inc., designer and manufacturer of Germany's most famous photographic product, the Leica Camera, helped get hundreds of its Jewish employees out of Nazi Germany after Hitler took power. "To help his Jewish workers and colleagues, Leitz quietly established what has become known among historians of the Holocaust as "the Leica Freedom Train," a covert means of allowing Jews to leave Germany in the guise of Leitz employees being assigned overseas. ... Before long, German "employees" were disembarking from the ocean liner Bremen at a New York pier and making their way to the Manhattan office of Leitz Inc., where executives quickly found them jobs in the photographic industry. Each new arrival had around his or her neck the symbol of freedom - a new Leica." 
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