https://padlet.com/barzuang000/socbudd30zguzsq3 Leon Leyson en-us 2022-02-02 20:35:22 UTC 2022-04-02 05:36:48 UTC hello@padlet.com barzuang000 https://padlet.com/barzuang000/socbudd30zguzsq3/wish/2034095385 Leyson. Leon. The Boy on the Wooden Box. Atheneum , 2013.]]> 2022-02-07 20:58:42 UTC https://padlet.com/barzuang000/socbudd30zguzsq3/wish/2034095385 barzuang000 https://padlet.com/barzuang000/socbudd30zguzsq3/wish/2038542476 Leon's father leaves his family to go work and give his family a better life, he returns once in a while to visit his family.

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"My father was one of the few employees to move with the factory. The plan was for my father to go first. When he had enough money, he would bring all of us to Krakow. It took him several years to save that much and to find a suitable place for us to live. In the meantime, my father returned every six months or so to see us" (11)]]> 2022-02-09 18:02:36 UTC https://padlet.com/barzuang000/socbudd30zguzsq3/wish/2038542476 barzuang000 https://padlet.com/barzuang000/socbudd30zguzsq3/wish/2038545454 2022-02-09 18:04:03 UTC https://padlet.com/barzuang000/socbudd30zguzsq3/wish/2038545454 barzuang000 https://padlet.com/barzuang000/socbudd30zguzsq3/wish/2049918693 In the spring of 1938  Leons' father had enough money to bring the family to Kraków, so Leons' family moved to Kraków.]]> 2022-02-16 02:08:12 UTC https://padlet.com/barzuang000/socbudd30zguzsq3/wish/2049918693 barzuang000 https://padlet.com/barzuang000/socbudd30zguzsq3/wish/2049926050 Adolf Hitler has made a plan to marginalize Jews.

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"October 1938 began with disturbing news. Newspapers, radio broadcasts, and conversations everywhere were full of stories about Germany and Adolf Hitler, Germany's leader, or Führer. Since coming to power in 1933, Hitler and the Nazis wasted no time in consolidating control, silencing their opponents, and beginning the campaign to re-establish Germany as a dominant world power. A central part of Hitler's plan was to marginalize Jews, to make us 'the other'" (40)]]> 2022-02-16 02:14:04 UTC https://padlet.com/barzuang000/socbudd30zguzsq3/wish/2049926050 barzuang000 https://padlet.com/barzuang000/socbudd30zguzsq3/wish/2049927975 On November 9-10 1938 synagogues and torah scroll were burned.]]> 2022-02-16 02:15:42 UTC https://padlet.com/barzuang000/socbudd30zguzsq3/wish/2049927975 barzuang000 https://padlet.com/barzuang000/socbudd30zguzsq3/wish/2082945435 Leon hears on the radio that German tanks cross the border into Poland, they had attacked a Polish border town and the invasion of Poland has started by the Germans.]]> 2022-03-08 01:55:39 UTC https://padlet.com/barzuang000/socbudd30zguzsq3/wish/2082945435 barzuang000 https://padlet.com/barzuang000/socbudd30zguzsq3/wish/2082957749 Germans had crossed into Kraków.

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"It was September 6, 1939. Less than a week after crossing the border into Poland, the Germans were in Kraków" (49)]]> 2022-03-08 02:02:24 UTC https://padlet.com/barzuang000/socbudd30zguzsq3/wish/2082957749 barzuang000 https://padlet.com/barzuang000/socbudd30zguzsq3/wish/2082964706 The boys beat up the father and take him away into the night]]> 2022-03-08 02:06:05 UTC https://padlet.com/barzuang000/socbudd30zguzsq3/wish/2082964706 barzuang000 https://padlet.com/barzuang000/socbudd30zguzsq3/wish/2095149173 Leon found out his father was at a jail. Later on his father returned home. ]]> 2022-03-15 03:59:42 UTC https://padlet.com/barzuang000/socbudd30zguzsq3/wish/2095149173 barzuang000 https://padlet.com/barzuang000/socbudd30zguzsq3/wish/2095152317 It was late November and the Germans had given a rule that Jews twelve years and older should wear an armband with a Jewish star.

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"Jews who were twelve years and older were required to wear a white armband with a blue Star of David..." (63)]]> 2022-03-15 04:02:32 UTC https://padlet.com/barzuang000/socbudd30zguzsq3/wish/2095152317 barzuang000 https://padlet.com/barzuang000/socbudd30zguzsq3/wish/2101360855 Leons father was sent to a factory, the new owner who was a Nazi wanted a safe opened, so Leons father helped him open it. The Nazi offered him a job, and he excepted it. He didn't get paid, but it gives him and his family safety, a credential so if a German solider wanted to force labor on Leons father, Leons father had a credential against the solider. The Nazi who offered him a job was named Schindler.]]> 2022-03-18 05:13:19 UTC https://padlet.com/barzuang000/socbudd30zguzsq3/wish/2101360855 barzuang000 https://padlet.com/barzuang000/socbudd30zguzsq3/wish/2106740436 A ghetto is getting built where all the jews remaining are going to be forced to live there. 


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"I watched as twelve-foot-high walls went up, encircling an area of residential buildings not far from our apartment" (76)]]> 2022-03-22 04:42:12 UTC https://padlet.com/barzuang000/socbudd30zguzsq3/wish/2106740436 barzuang000 https://padlet.com/barzuang000/socbudd30zguzsq3/wish/2106746585 Leons family leaves their apartment with some belongings and then later make it to the ghetto. 

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"As we approached the gates of the ghetto, I was seized by panic" (77)]]> 2022-03-22 04:46:57 UTC https://padlet.com/barzuang000/socbudd30zguzsq3/wish/2106746585 barzuang000 https://padlet.com/barzuang000/socbudd30zguzsq3/wish/2114420517 In May of 1942, the Nazis announced a voluntary transport to the ghetto, but then by June, they demanded some Jews to leave to the countryside.

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"By June, however, the Nazis were past the nicety of asking for volunteers; instead, they demanded that all "nonessential" Jews, which meant mainly the elderly and those without jobs, vacate their apartments and leave on the transports" (92)]]> 2022-03-25 20:24:58 UTC https://padlet.com/barzuang000/socbudd30zguzsq3/wish/2114420517 barzuang000 https://padlet.com/barzuang000/socbudd30zguzsq3/wish/2114424954 German soldiers burst into Leon's family building, the father showed them his work identification card, Tsalig--Leon's brother was seventeen, he was also required to have one according to the German soldiers, but he didn't, the soldiers took Tsalig and left. Leon's brother is gone.]]> 2022-03-25 20:30:15 UTC https://padlet.com/barzuang000/socbudd30zguzsq3/wish/2114424954 barzuang000 https://padlet.com/barzuang000/socbudd30zguzsq3/wish/2118529045 After Leon sneaks his way into Płaszów, he makes it there.

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"The moment I entered the gates of Płaszów, I was convinced I would never leave alive" (114)]]> 2022-03-29 03:50:16 UTC https://padlet.com/barzuang000/socbudd30zguzsq3/wish/2118529045 barzuang000 https://padlet.com/barzuang000/socbudd30zguzsq3/wish/2118540630 Leons searched for his father and brother, he took a risk.

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"Weak as I was, I stole away, determined to find my father and brother. Finally, totally exhausted, when I thought I would have to abandon my search, I opened one more door. There they were" (116)]]> 2022-03-29 04:00:25 UTC https://padlet.com/barzuang000/socbudd30zguzsq3/wish/2118540630 barzuang000 https://padlet.com/barzuang000/socbudd30zguzsq3/wish/2118542344
Leon hears about Schindlers plan but does not think to much of it, but then he is on the list, and gets some happiness.

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"When word passed through the camp that Schindler planned to add thirty Jews to his workforce, I didn't think anything about it. However, a few days later I learned that a list had been created, and my name was on it, along with my mother's" (128)]]> 2022-03-29 04:02:03 UTC https://padlet.com/barzuang000/socbudd30zguzsq3/wish/2118542344 barzuang000 https://padlet.com/barzuang000/socbudd30zguzsq3/wish/2118568321
Leons name does get crossed off Schindlers list, but Leon made his case to a German officer and made it into the group going to Schindlers sub-camp. He goes near his mother and slides his hand into his mothers hand.]]> 2022-03-29 04:26:28 UTC https://padlet.com/barzuang000/socbudd30zguzsq3/wish/2118568321 barzuang000 https://padlet.com/barzuang000/socbudd30zguzsq3/wish/2122565864 Theres a danger of the Soviets capturing the Nazis so Schindler wanted to flee. Before he fled, he gathered all his Jews together and told them "You are Free". ]]> 2022-03-31 01:21:05 UTC https://padlet.com/barzuang000/socbudd30zguzsq3/wish/2122565864 barzuang000 https://padlet.com/barzuang000/socbudd30zguzsq3/wish/2122575694 Leons family immigration request has been approved. They take a train and a troopship, then they go to Los Angeles, California for a 5-day trip. Leon found the trip wonderful, and after the trip, the family took a train to where they were going to be living, a new life has begun.]]> 2022-03-31 01:26:57 UTC https://padlet.com/barzuang000/socbudd30zguzsq3/wish/2122575694 barzuang000 https://padlet.com/barzuang000/socbudd30zguzsq3/wish/2124698672 2022-04-01 02:38:44 UTC https://padlet.com/barzuang000/socbudd30zguzsq3/wish/2124698672 barzuang000 https://padlet.com/barzuang000/socbudd30zguzsq3/wish/2125808264 2022-04-01 17:27:06 UTC https://padlet.com/barzuang000/socbudd30zguzsq3/wish/2125808264 barzuang000 https://padlet.com/barzuang000/socbudd30zguzsq3/wish/2125814964 2022-04-01 17:31:57 UTC https://padlet.com/barzuang000/socbudd30zguzsq3/wish/2125814964 barzuang000 https://padlet.com/barzuang000/socbudd30zguzsq3/wish/2125832181 2022-04-01 17:44:00 UTC https://padlet.com/barzuang000/socbudd30zguzsq3/wish/2125832181