The Holocaust affected many people global in a tragical way. Leon Leyson was a young boy with a well through family and a few good friends. Although he never really gets to see his dad he managed perfectly. Even though he wasn't wealthy nor poor, he still was grateful for his belongings. But when the holocaust came everything changed. He survived..? Well yes he did but two of his brothers did not and his dad barely even made by constantly getting beat and thrown in jail.
Leon Leyson was only a pre teen when it started. He and his family were forced to the ghetto and were also saw as peasants, or pests that should not be around. Many people felt bad about this but what could they have done. By this time the nazis were in full power. Leon did not understand that when he and his family may be the nicest family on earth. Thankfully he and his family were saved by a fellow friend of his father's. That's when he felt even more grateful and how precious life is.
In the article “Leon Leyson: The youngest worker to be saved by Oskar Schindler” by David Childs. He explains how Leon and his family went through the Holocaust, as in the book no different. During the reading of his Memoir I found details about his childhood and his life. The book was founded more specific than the article. Even though the article had many different informational texts. I find the book more reliable. Since the topic of the article is told way and the book is a memoir which was also told one way, that would mean they are both equivalent. They both Mention the list that saved his life. “The man I once knew saved my life” article paragraph 4. “If it wasn't for Mr. Schindler I wouldn't be here” book pg 223.
Work Cited
David Childs. "Leon Leyson: The youngest worker to be saved by Oskar Schindler." The
Independent. Independent Digital News and Media, 24 Jan. 2013. Web. 11 May 2017.
Leyson, Leon, Marilyn J. Harran, and Elisabeth B. Leyson. The boy on the wooden box: how the
impossible became possible ... on Schindler's list. NY, NY: Atheneum for Young Readers, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division, 2015. Print.
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