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Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
The biography of Leon Leyson, the only memoir published by a former Schindler's List child.
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,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Arie Tamir
Pub. Date
©2015.
Language
English
Description
This book describes a human drama that involves decision-making in impossibly cruel circumstances, a lot of resourcefulness and the struggle to survive. The drama takes place during the Holocaust from the point of view of a child nicknamed Leosh. At age 7, the boy is swept into the whirlwind of the Holocaust. For six years, he endures all the horrors that the holocaust brings upon the Jewish people. Due to a lot of luck, resourcefulness, and with...
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