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Monday, August 11, 2014

FERRON READS


Amazon's readers rate this 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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