The Boy on the Wooden Box : How the Impossible Became Possible... on Schindler's List (Hardcover)

from benuathanasia

What a touching and accessible memoir. It immediately had me pulling out my great love - Spielberg's Schindler's List, so I could cross-reference settings and events.

from HelenGress

This memoir recounts the story of Schindler's list-- as lived by a young boy whose family was saved by Schindler. Their story, like all haulocaust survivers' tales is heartwrenching. I was very struck by his admission that when they got to America, he found it imposible to have conversations with...

from indygo88

Leon Leyson was one of the children who survived the Holocaust due to the influence of Oskar Schindler, and reading about his story has made me want to go back & re-watch Schindler's List. The writing is fairly simple & straightforward without some of the "drama" of many other Holocaust novels an...

from cfranson

This is an important work that could be paired well with WWII curriculum. Leyson's memoir is an account of his life and how it was shattered by the Holocaust. Being the youngest person on Oskar Schindler's list his tale is a revealing and heartbreaking account of life in the factory and during th...

from klburnside

The Boy on the Wooden Box is an autobiography by a Holocaust survivor who worked in Oskar Schindler's factory as a boy and was rescued from probable death on numerous occasions through the efforts of Schindler. It is written for young adults and is very accessible. Leyson traces his life through ...