The Boy On The Wooden Box

  • Author: Leon Leyson
  • Narrator: Danny Burstein
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster
  • Duration: 4:14:41
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Synopsis

“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 Schindler’s 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 Schindler’s 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.

Ultimately, it was the generosity and cunning of one man, 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.

Told with an abundance of dignity and a remarkable lack of rancor and venom, The Boy on the Wooden Box is a legacy of hope, a memoir unlike anything you’ve ever read.

Chapters

  • BoyOnTheWoodenBox 01 Title

    Duration: 22s
  • BoyOnTheWoodenBox 02 Prologue REV

    Duration: 03min
  • BoyOnTheWoodenBox 03 Ch1 REV

    Duration: 30min
  • BoyOnTheWoodenBox 04 Ch2

    Duration: 24min
  • BoyOnTheWoodenBox 05 Ch3 REV

    Duration: 20min
  • BoyOnTheWoodenBox 06 Ch4 REV

    Duration: 15min
  • BoyOnTheWoodenBox 07 Ch5 REV

    Duration: 23min
  • BoyOnTheWoodenBox 08 Ch6

    Duration: 18min
  • BoyOnTheWoodenBox 09 Ch7

    Duration: 25min
  • BoyOnTheWoodenBox 10 Ch8 REV

    Duration: 23min
  • BoyOnTheWoodenBox 11 Ch9 REV

    Duration: 17min
  • BoyOnTheWoodenBox 12 Ch10 REV

    Duration: 25min
  • BoyOnTheWoodenBox 13 Epilogue REV

    Duration: 26min
  • BoyOnTheWoodenBox 14 Credits

    Duration: 43s