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The Boy on the Wooden Box : How the Impossible Became Possible....on Schindlers List
4.38 (24,564 ratings by Goodreads)
Paperback English
By (author) Leon Leyson , With Marilyn J Harran , With Elisabeth B Leyson


"Much like The Boy In the Striped Pajamas or The Book Thief," this remarkable memoir from Leon Leyson, one of the youngest children to survive the Holocaust on Oskar Schindlers list, "brings to readers a story of bravery and the fight for a chance to live" (VOYA).

This, the only memoir published by a former Schindlers list child, perfectly captures the innocence of a small boy who goes through the unthinkable. 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.


Product details

For ages 9-12
Format Paperback | 256 pages
Dimensions 132 x 201 x 23mm | 204g
Publication date 18 Aug 2015
Publisher Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Language English
Edition Statement Reprint
ISBN10 1442497823
ISBN13 9781442497825
Bestsellers rank 37,000