A review by awhipp17
The Boy on the Wooden Box: How the Impossible Became Possible....on Schindler's List by Leon Leyson

challenging dark informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

it's hard to make time and space for these kind of books you know will rip your heart out. i also feel like if i've read a couple books and seen a couple movies and learned about it in school and on the news, i think i'm all set in learning about the Holocaust. but this was maybe the best book i've read. yes, it's for young adults, but that just makes it accessible. he answers every question i ever had in my mind when reading/learning about this subject. "why did/didn't the Jewish people do X?", "how could X have happened to them?", "why didn't they flee at the first signs of war?", "people treated them better after the war, surely", and on and on. such a simple storytelling, so honest, and so humble. i may have just had better context for things upon this Holocaust reading, but honestly this was the most useful of the books on the subject i've read. thank you Leon for sharing your story, and thank you Oskar Schindler for sticking your neck out when you didn't have to.