The Boy on the Wooden Box-Setting-Leon Leyson

 The Boy on the Wooden Box

Leon Leyson

Martin Nicholson

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      The Boy on the Wooden Box, a memoir by

Leon Leyson, a Jew from the Holocaust, up till page 80 mostly takes place in Krakow, Poland. However, the non-fiction started in Narewka, a small farming village in Poland where electricity is a miracle. This is the home town of Lean Leyson, the protagonist. Soon, the setting moves several hundred kilometers to Krakow, a city. Life there is wonderful, until the war starts, and everything changes. The small apartment where the poor Jewish family of 6 lives is often a target of the Nazi soldiers occupying Krakow. When things start getting a bit extreme, all the Jews are forced into a fenced of area of Krakow, originally the homes of five thousand people, now housing fifteen thousand Jews. The new apartment family shares the apartment with the Luftig couple. So far, The Boy on the Wooden Box takes place throughout WWII, in Krakow.

     Two unknown words in the first 80 pages of this book are entrepreneurs (pg. 54) and liaison (pg. 54). The later is a synonym for cooperation. He communicates in such a way that he develops a close working relationship between facilitates and organizations, translates in a way. "He had made my father the official liaison, akin to translator, between himself the Christian Poles still allowed to work." Or "the director works in close liaison with the principle." The word entrepreneurs means somebody who sets up business on a risk, hoping to make profit. "I hope to catch the eye of many entrepreneurs with this market."