The Boy On the Wooden Box

Name: The Boy On the Wooden Box
Author: Leon Leyson

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Author(s)	Leon Leyson
Illustrator(s)
Age Group	9-14
Publisher	Atheneum Books for Young Readers
ISBN	978-1442497818
Year	2013

Leon Leyson 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. 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.

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