Book Club Book 😱

Lately I was put into a Book Club group where I have to read a book called,  THE BOY ON THE WOODEN BOX , and some questions that I would like to answer are :

How have my feelings changed as I’ve been reading? 

First things first, the book I am reading is about, 

“Leon Leyson loved playing on the kraków streetcars with his friends 

and tagging along after his older brothers... 

Then, suddenly, German soldiers were : 

In his country. In his city. In his home.

Seemingly overnight, the life he knew vanished. The Third Reich 

wanted him, and every other Jew in Europe, dead. 

The darkest of times can unleash the worst in human nature—and also the best.

Leon Leyson lived through those times. This is his story.”

  The author of the book is Leon Leyson which makes it a autobiography. Since I learned about the   Holocaust and what went on during it, I expected something’s that happened in the book to happen, so I wasn’t that surprised. But I got really surprised when I came to a part of a book where Leyson explained that a German solider was actually being friendly and kind with him when normally the German soldiers are horrible to Jewish people. So that left me thinking about a lot of things.

If I could talk to the author, what questions would I ask? Why?

I would ask if rubber bands existed at Leyson’s time because Jewish people’s hair would grow long whenever they were in ghetto’s surviving, and they didn’t really have anything to cut it with, so did they at least have a rubber band to put it back? I would also ask Leyson if he ever felt like just giving up on living at times, because of how hard it was just to live at the time zone the Holocaust took place in.

What has been the most important part of what you’ve been reading?

  The most important part of what I’ve been reading is when a character, that’s in the book, saved Leyson and his family because of his kindness. I believe this is important because during the time Leyson and that hero met, Leyson was standing on a box, because he was too short to reach a machine and that’s when the hero started being kind to him, and what is this book called? That’s right! THE BOY ON THE WOODEN BOX, coincidence? I think not! So since the title relates to that scene in the story, I believe that is the most important part. 

Berlin Memorial Activity & My Answers on It 👍

What did I learn? 

When I went to my ELA (English Language Arts) I learned, seen, and did many things... 

Such as learning that many events during different time periods in the 1900’s went down, and they were NOT good... Because the things that went down were horrible laws that went specifically against the Jews.

Why do you think the monument was build? 

    I believe the monument was built for remembrance in these laws that were created against the Jews. Basically to show that the laws are so bad that they just shouldn’t be forgotten.

This is the monument/Berlin memorial⬇️

What did I notice about the number of laws passed in certain years? 

    What I noticed about the number of laws passed in certain years was that all the laws were totally unfair and that they were down right ridiculous, they took away basic human rights and with what the laws were passing I doubt the Jews could even stay alive and survive. Which is really heart wrecking, might I add.

Which restrictions do I think I would have the most trouble dealing with and why? 

   The restrictions I would have trouble dealing with would probably be one of the laws that said, “Jews not allowed to go to school. 6/20/42” because no, I am not Jewish but if I were I would want to go to school to be smart and be successful in life. Sure school is hard and could sometimes be unenjoyable but I know I need it in order to survive in this world. 

And that is all! Bye bye :-)