Elisabeth Leyson, wife of Leon Leyson, is moving to Davis, California and will not be present at our book signing at the OLLI Authors’ Day, March 7^th  from 11:00 AM to 1:30  PM.  Location: California State University, Fullerton, Pollak Library.  We For more information click HERE.  

We will miss you.  I am sure our Fullerton community will miss you.
Thank you so much for what you do to instill awareness of the Holocaust by making “A Boy on a Wooden Box” available to our community.  Also, thanks for your participation in our past book signings.  You have been instrumental in making them a success.

This powerful memoir of one of the youngest boys on Schindler’s list deserves to be shared. Leon Leyson grew up in Poland as the youngest of five children. As WWII breaks out, Leyson’s ingenuity and bravery, combined with the kindness of strangers and a bit of serendipity, save his life, time and again.

Leyson’s experiences and memories make for compelling reading about what it was like to suffer through the Holocaust.

This memoir is a natural curriculum addition to WWII units for upper, elementary, and middle-school readers. Grades 4-9.                                 —Sarah Bean Thompson, Booklist.

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 was ten years old when the Nazis invaded Poland and his family was forced to relocate to the Krakow ghetto. 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, his mother, father, and two of his four siblings, by adding their names to his list of workers in his factory—the world-renowned Schindler’s list.

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

Also available on Amazon click HERE