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Author Leyson, Leon, 1929-2013.

Title The boy on the wooden box : how the impossible became possible - on Schindler's list / Leon Leyson ; with Marilyn J. Harran and Elisabeth B. Leyson
Published London : Simon and Schuster, 2013

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Description 254 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits facsimilies ; 23 cm
regular print
Contents Leon Leyson (born Leib Lezjon) was only ten years old when the Nazis invaded Poland and his family was forced to relocate to the Krakow ghetto. With incredible luck, perseverance and grit, Leyson was able to survive the sadism of the Nazis, including that of the demonic Amon Goeth, commandant of Plaszow, the concentration camp outside Krakow. Ultimately, it was the generosity and cunning of one man, a man named Oskar Schindler, who saved Leon Leyson's life, and the lives of his mother, his father, and two of his four siblings, by adding their names to his list of workers in his factory -- a list that became world renowned: Schindler's List. This, the only memoir published by a former Schindler's List child, perfectly captures the innocence of a small boy who goes through the unthinkable. Most notable is the lack of rancour, the lack of venom, and the abundance of dignity in Mr Leyson's telling. The Boy on the Wooden Box is a legacy of hope, a memoir unlike anything you've ever read
Summary Leon Leyson (born Leib Lezjon) was only ten years old when the Nazis invaded Poland and his family was forced to relocate to the Krakow ghetto. With incredible luck, perseverance and grit, Leyson was able to survive the sadism of the Nazis, including that of the demonic Amon Goeth, commandant of Plaszow, the concentration camp outside Krakow. Ultimately, it was the generosity and cunning of one man, a man named Oskar Schindler, who saved Leon Leyson's life, and the lives of his mother, his father, and two of his four siblings, by adding their names to his list of workers in his factory - a list that became world renowned: Schindler's List. This, the only memoir published by a former Schindler's List child, perfectly captures the innocence of a small boy who goes through the unthinkable. Most notable is the lack of rancour, the lack of venom, and the abundance of dignity in Mr Leyson's telling. The Boy on the Wooden Box is a legacy of hope, a memoir unlike anything you've ever read
Notes Balmain copy donated by Friends of Balmain Library
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (page [256])
Subject Leyson, Leon, 1929-2013 -- Juvenile literature.
Leyson, Leon, 1929-2013.
Schindler, Oskar, 1908-1974 -- Juvenile literature.
Schindler, Oskar, 1908-1974.
Płaszów (Concentration camp)
Płaszów (Concentration camp) -- Juvenile literature.
Concentration camp inmates -- Poland -- Płaszów -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Concentration camp inmates -- Poland -- P±aszâow -- Biography
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Poland -- Kraków -- Personal narratives -- Juvenile literature.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Poland -- Kraków -- Personal narratives.
Jewish children in the Holocaust -- Poland -- Kraków -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Jewish children in the Holocaust -- Poland -- Kraków -- Biography.
Jews -- Poland -- Narewka -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Jews -- Poland -- Narewka -- Biography.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- Rescue -- Juvenile literature.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- Rescue.
Jews -- Biography.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- Rescue
SUBJECT Narewka (Poland) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2013006818 -- Biography http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001237 -- Juvenile literature. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001674
Narewka (Poland) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2013006818 -- Biography. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001237
Genre/Form Autobiographies.
Personal narratives.
Author Harran, Marilyn J., 1948-
Leyson, Elisabeth B.
ISBN 9781471119675 (hbk.)