The Boy on the Wooden Box (17 page)
USC Shoah Foundation—The Institute for Visual History and Education
The “1939” Club
Yad Vashem
Leon’s name (listed as Leib Lejzon) on Schindler’s list.
The Leyson family about 1930 (
from top left, clockwise
): Tsalig, Hershel, Chanah, David, and Pesza.
Lwowska 19. The Leyson apartment in the Kraków ghetto was on the second floor.
The shed behind the apartment in the ghetto where Leon hid with his mother and friends.
Leon’s 1947 ID for the displaced persons (DP) camp.
From left to right
: Leon, Chanah, and Moshe in 1948.
Leon (
second from left
) in the US Army in Georgia in 1951.
Leon at his graduation from California State University Los Angeles in 1958.
Leon (
second from right
) in fedora and Moshe (
third from right
) and unidentified friends in Germany, around 1948.
Lis and Leon’s wedding in July 1965.
Oskar Schindler in Israel in the 1960s.
From left to right
: Mila Page, Oskar Schindler, Lis, Leon, David, and an unidentified woman at Los Angeles International Airport in the fall of 1965.
