Leon Leyson (born Leib Lezjon) was only ten years old when the Nazis invaded Poland & his family was forced to relocate to the Krakow ghetto With incredible luck perseverance & 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 & cunning of one man a man named Oskar Schindler who saved Leon Leyson's life & the lives of his mother his father & 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 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 Most notable is the lack of rancour the lack of venom & the abundance of dignity in Mr Leyson's telling The Boy on the Wooden Boxis a legacy of hope a memoir unlike anything you've ever read