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The boy on the wooden box : how the impossible became possible...on Schindler's list
- 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.
- Author
- Leyson, Leon, 1929-2013
- Publication
- New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, [2013]
- ©2013
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFC 14-55 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
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- Description
- 231 pages : illustrations, map; 20 cm
- Summary
- The biography of Leon Leyson, the only memoir published by a former Schindler's List child.
- 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.
- Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945 > Jews > Rescue
- Jewish children in the Holocaust > Poland > Kraków > Biography
- Schindler, Oskar, 1908-1974
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Poland > Kraków > Personal narratives
- Jews > Poland > Narewka > Biography
- Leyson, Leon, 1929-2013
- Płaszów (Concentration camp)
- World War, 1939-1945 > Jews > Rescue > Juvenile literature
- Jewish children in the Holocaust > Poland > Kraków > Biography > Juvenile literature
- Schindler, Oskar, 1908-1974 > Juvenile literature
- Narewka (Poland) > Biography > Juvenile literature
- Płaszów (Concentration camp) Juvenile literature
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Poland > Kraków > Personal narratives > Juvenile literature
- Jews > Poland > Narewka > Biography > Juvenile literature
- Concentration camp inmates > Poland > Płaszów > Biography > Juvenile literature
- Leyson, Leon, 1929-2013 > Juvenile literature
- Note
- "A memoir"--Cover.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (page 232).
- Audience (note)
- Ages 8-12.
- Call Number
- JFC 14-55
- ISBN
- 9781442497818 (hardcover)
- 1442497815 (hardcover)
- 9781480664418 (Paw Prints)
- 1480664413 (Paw Prints)
- LCCN
- 2013017987
- OCLC
- 828892437
- Author
- Leyson, Leon, 1929-2013, author.
- 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.
- Publisher
- New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, [2013]
- Copyright Date
- ©2013
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (page 232).
- Audience
- Ages 8-12.
- Added Author
- Harran, Marilyn J., 1948- author.Lewson, Elisabeth B., author.Atheneum Books for Young Readers, publisher.
- Research Call Number
- JFC 14-55