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Schindler, Oskar
3 Reviews
Leyson, Leon
, Harran, Marilyn J.
& Leyson, Elisabeth B.
The Boy on the Wooden Box: How the Impossible Became Possible...on Schindler's List
(1)
4-6
Leon Leyson (born Leib Lejzon in 1929) acknowledges that he was "an unlikely survivor of the Holocaust," saved from extermination by his father's lucky place in Oskar Schindler's Kraków factory. Leyson's account of his childhood in pre-war Poland and under the Nazi occupation stands out for its brisk and unsentimental style and for its human scale. The tone is forthright and almost grandfatherly. Websites.
Reviewer: Roger Sutton
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
November, 2013
(2)
YA
This is a painful alternative to Holocaust narratives that accent the hope and play down the horrors. Witness to unthinkable random brutality, Hillman, frantic to believe that there is a reason for the suffering, asks: "God, what have we done that you have forsaken us?" Hillman writes matter-of-factly about it all. The book includes a few family photographs that Hillman hid throughout her ordeal.
Reviewer: Susan P. Bloom
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
September, 2005
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4-6
Holocaust Biographies series.
Offering considerable information about the people they portray, these books strive for and attain a measure of objectivity, even though their subjects played vastly different roles in the Holocaust. The quality of the writing is uneven, ranging from fluent to choppy. The black-and-white photos are cited, but little textual material is. Each book contains a time line. Bib., glos., ind.
Reviewer: Frieda F. Bostian
3 reviews
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