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.

London : Simon and Schuster, 2013.

254 pages : illustrations (black and white), map (black and white) ; 23 cm

Leon Leyson 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. This memoir 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.

9781471119675 (hbk)

B LEY
940.5318092

English

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