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book 5 stars. I can do no less *****
This is a great book for
both young adults and adults. Our book club is reading this book during the
month of August. Call Ferron Library at 384-2637 for more information.
The Boy on the Wooden
Box How the
impossible became possible ... on Schindler's
list by Leon Leyson
This is true story written by
Leon Leyson (born Leib Lezjon) who grew up during the Holocaust. His memoir captures
the innocence of a small boy who goes through the unthinkable. He survives leaving
his home, moving to a Krakow ghetto, being held in a concentration camp and
being separated from his family for months. Ultimately, it was Oskar Schindler
who saved his life and the lives of over a thousand Jews by adding their names
to his list of factory workers - a list that later became known as Schindler's
List.
Believing no one would be
interested in his story, Leon rarely spoke about his experiences until the film Schindler's List received worldwide
attention. Schindler outwitted the Nazis by claming that his factory workers
were essential to the war effort. Leon Leyson was not. He could only reach his
machine's controls by standing on a wooden box. That box gave him a chance to
look useful, and to stay alive.
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