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

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.

Leyson, Leon, 1929-2013 (author.). Harran, Marilyn J., 1948- (author.). Lewson, Elisabeth B., (author.).

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.
The biography of Leon Leyson, the only memoir published by a former Schindler's List child.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781442497818
  • ISBN: 1442497815
  • ISBN: 9781480664418
  • ISBN: 1480664413
  • ISBN: 9781442497825
  • ISBN: 1442497823
  • ISBN: 0606360972
  • ISBN: 9780606360975
  • Physical Description: 231 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, map, portraits ; 20 cm
  • Publisher: New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, [2013]

Content descriptions

General Note:
Contains photographs of Leon Leyson's family
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (page 232).
Target Audience Note:
1000L Lexile
Study Program Information Note:
Accelerated Reader AR MG 7 7 160814.
Accelerated Reader 7.0.
Reading Counts! 7.5.
Awards Note:
ALSC Notable Children's Book, 2014.

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Subject:
Leyson, Leon, 1929-2013.
Schindler, Oskar, 1908-1974.
Płaszów (Concentration camp)
Jews > Poland > Narewka > Biography.
Jewish children in the Holocaust > Poland > Kraków > Biography.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Poland > Kraków > Personal narratives.
World War, 1939-1945 > Jews > Rescue.
Internment camp inmates > Poland > Płaszów > Biography.
Nazi concentration camp inmates > Poland > Płaszów > Biography.
World War, 1939-1945 > Jews > Rescue > Juvenile literature.
Narewka (Poland) > Biography.
Genre:
Autobiographies.
Personal narratives.
Young adult literature.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Onslow County Public Library.

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Jacksonville Main Library JB LEYSON (Text) 36015000212023 Juvenile Biography Available -