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The boy on the wooden box : how the impossible became possible ... on Schindler's list /

"Not even the scariest of fairy tales could have prepared me for the monsters I would confront while just a boy of ten ... or for the hero, disguised as a monster himself, who would save my life." Leon Leyson loved playing on the Krakow streetcars with his friends and tagging along after h...

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Main Authors: Leyson, Leon, 1929-2013
Group Author: Harran, Marilyn J., 1948; Leyson, Elisabeth B
Published: Atheneum Books for Young Readers,
Publisher Address: New York :
Publication Dates: 2015.
©2013.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Edition: First Athenem books for Young Readers paperbook edition.
Subjects:
Leyson, Leon, > 1929-2013
Schindler, Oskar, > 1908-1974
Płaszów Concentration camp
Holocaust, Jewish 1939-1945
1939-1945
Jews > Poland > Narewka > Biography
Jewish children in the Holocaust > Poland > Kraków > Biography
Holocaust, Jewish 1939-1945 > Poland > Kraków > Personal narratives
Holocaust, Jewish 1939-1945 > Rescue
Concentration camp inmates > Poland > Płaszów > Biography
Concentration camp inmates
Jewish children in the Holocaust
Jews
Poland > Kraków
Poland > Narewka
Poland > Płaszów
Biography
Personal narratives
Summary: "Not even the scariest of fairy tales could have prepared me for the monsters I would confront while just a boy of ten ... or for the hero, disguised as a monster himself, who would save my life." Leon Leyson loved playing on the Krakow streetcars with his friends and tagging along after his older brothers ... Then, suddenly, German soldiers were: In his country. In his city. In his home. Seemingly overnight, the life he knew vanished. The Third Reich wanted him, and every other Jew, dead. The darkest of times can unleash the worst in human nature--and also the best. Leon Leyson lived throug
The biography of Leon Leyson, the only memoir published by a former Schindler's List child. Contains photographs of Leon Leyson's family.
Memoirs of a Jew born in 1929 in the village of Narewka (near Białystok) as Lejb Lejzon. Before the war the family moved to Kraków, together with the glass factory at which Leon's father, Moshe, worked. During the German occupation, Moshe was hired by Oskar Schindler to work at one of his factories. In 1940, the Jews of Kraków were interned in a ghetto. Leon, his parents, and two of his siblings survived several deportations from the ghetto in 1942, as well as the Płaszów labor camp to which they were transferred in March 1943. In late 1943 Schindler transferred his Jewish workers to
Carrier Form: 231 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, map, portraits ; 20 cm.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN: 1442497823
9781442497825
CLC: K818.738.2
Call Number: K818.738.2/L685

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