Questions for The Boy on the Wooden Box By Mrs. Konigsmark 1. In The Boy on the Wooden Box by Leon Leyson, the author tells of meeting the person responsible for saving his life during World War II. Who is that person? A: Oskar Schindler 2. In The Boy on the Wooden Box by Leon Leyson, where does Leon play most often when he is a boy in the small town of Narewka? A: In the river. 3. In The Boy on the Wooden Box by Leon Leyson, how many siblings does Leon have? A: Four 4. In The Boy on the Wooden Box by Leon Leyson, what special treat did his mother make him to eat when he was just a little boy, before the war? A: Scrambled eggs. 5. In The Boy on the Wooden Box by Leon Leyson, where does Leon’s father work? A: A glass factory. 6. In The Boy on the Wooden Box by Leon Leyson, where does the father move, when the factory where he works is moved? A: Krakow. 7. In The Boy on the Wooden Box by Leon Leyson, what country is the setting for most of the book? A: Poland. 8. In The Boy on the Wooden Box by Leon Leyson, What did the father like to purchase for himself? A: Elegant suits. 9. In The Boy on the Wooden Box by Leon Leyson, which child does Leon suspect his father favors? A: Pesza, the only girl. 10. In The Boy on the Wooden Box by Leon Leyson, what does the father bring the children when he comes home from the city? A: Candy. 11. In The Boy on the Wooden Box by Leon Leyson, In the town of Narewka, before the war, what type of school would Leon attend in the afternoons? A: Heder, or Jewish School. 12. In The Boy on the Wooden Box by Leon Leyson, what new invention do the Leysons put in their home in Narewka? A: Electricity. 13. In The Boy on the Wooden Box by Leon Leyson, how many beds did the Leysons have in their home in Narewka? A: One. 14. In The Boy on the Wooden Box by Leon Leyson, even before World War II, what did Jewish law prohibit Jews from owning? A: Land. 15. In The Boy on the Wooden Box by Leon Leyson, where does the family move in 1938? A: They join the father in Krakow. 16. In The Boy on the Wooden Box by Leon Leyson, what modern invention amazes Leon in their apartment in Krakow? A; Indoor plumbing. 33 17. In The Boy on the Wooden Box by Leon Leyson, what is one of Leon’s favorite games in his early days in Krakow? A: Riding the streetcar. 36 18. In The Boy on the Wooden Box by Leon Leyson, there are 60,000 WHAT living in Krakow in 1938? A: Jews. 19. In The Boy on the Wooden Box by Leon Leyson, the family learns that Hitler has expelled whom from Germany? A: Polish Jews. 20. In The Boy on the Wooden Box by Leon Leyson, what is the name of the night in 1938 when the windows in Jewish homes, businesses and synagogues were shattered in Austria and Germany? A: Kristallnacht. 21. In The Boy on the Wooden Box by Leon Leyson, in September 1939, who invades Poland? A: Germany. 22. In The Boy on the Wooden Box by Leon Leyson, who leaves Krakow and returns to Narewka? A: Leon’s father and Leon’s brother, Herschel. 50 23. In The Boy on the Wooden Box by Leon Leyson, when Leon’s father and Leon’s brother, Herschel, return to Narewka in 1939, who decides to return to Krakow and who remains in Narewka? A: The dad returns to Krakow and Herschel stays in Narewka. 50 24. In The Boy on the Wooden Box by Leon Leyson, the Germans put up posters all over depicting what? A: Jews looking ugly and dirty. 52 25. In The Boy on the Wooden Box by Leon Leyson, name something the Germans did not allow Jews to do. A: Sit on park benches, be in parks, ride in the front part of the streetcar. 52 26. In The Boy on the Wooden Box by Leon Leyson, name a way the Germans terrorized Jews in the beginning of the war. A: Looting businesses, taking away their belongings, evicting them from their apartments, cut off their beards, attending school. 53, 60 26. In The Boy on the Wooden Box by Leon Leyson, who beats up Leon’s father? A: Nazis. 56 27. In The Boy on the Wooden Box by Leon Leyson, who in Leon’s family taken by Nazis from their apartment? A: Leon’s father. 57 28. In The Boy on the Wooden Box by Leon Leyson, beginning in 1939, what are Jews above the age of 12 required to wear? A: A blue star of David and a white armband. 63 29. In The Boy on the Wooden Box by Leon Leyson, how does Leon’s father meet Oskar Schindler? A: He cracks open a safe for him. 65-66 30. In The Boy on the Wooden Box by Leon Leyson, what is the name of Schindler’s company? A: German Enamel works. 68 31. In The Boy on the Wooden Box by Leon Leyson, the Germans in 1940 decreed that how many Jews could remain in Krakow? A: 15,000. 72 32. In The Boy on the Wooden Box by Leon Leyson, why do the Leysons stay in Krakow after the Germans declare they want to “cleanse” the city of all Jews? A: Because Leon’s dad had a job, and because there were rumors that those leaving were being sent to their deaths. 73 33. In The Boy on the Wooden Box by Leon Leyson, what is the part of the city called where all Jews are moved in the end of 1940? A: The ghetto. Or Podgorze. 76 34. In The Boy on the Wooden Box by Leon Leyson, what do the stones on the top of the walls of the Jewish ghetto look like to Leon? A: Gravestones. 77. 35. In The Boy on the Wooden Box by Leon Leyson, the Leysons share their new apartment in the ghetto with another family. What does the father in that family collect? A: Pipes. 80 36. In The Boy on the Wooden Box by Leon Leyson, how many people are housed in the ghetto, which normally housed 5,000 people? A: 15,000. 81. 37. In The Boy on the Wooden Box by Leon Leyson, which member of Leon’s family is arrested and taken away while they are in the ghetto? A: Tsalig. 94 38. In The Boy on the Wooden Box by Leon Leyson, who tries to rescue Tsalig from the cattle car after his arrest? A: Schindler. 96 39. In The Boy on the Wooden Box by Leon Leyson, why won’t Tsalig leave the cattle car when Schindler finds him? A: He won’t leave his girlfriend, Miriam. 96 40. In The Boy on the Wooden Box by Leon Leyson, what does Leon have to leave behind when he and his family move from ghetto B to ghetto A? A: Mr. Luftig’s pipe collection. 107 41. In The Boy on the Wooden Box by Leon Leyson, in March 1943, where do the Leysons have to go? A: Plaszow, a concentration camp. 109. 42. In The Boy on the Wooden Box by Leon Leyson, what is Plaszow built on top of? A: Jewish cemeteries that Germans destroyed. 113 43. In The Boy on the Wooden Box by Leon Leyson, who is Geoth? A: The commandant at the camp. 120 44. In The Boy on the Wooden Box by Leon Leyson, what punishment did Commandant Geoth like to inflict on his Jewish prisoners? A: whipping them. 121 45. In The Boy on the Wooden Box by Leon Leyson, where does Leon work, both when he is in the ghetto, and when he is in Plaszow? A: At a brush factory. 125 46. In The Boy on the Wooden Box by Leon Leyson, how does the family get out of Plaszow? A: Schindler builds his own camp for his workers. 128 47. In The Boy on the Wooden Box by Leon Leyson, why is Leon called the boy on the wooden box? A: Because he is small and has to stand on a box to do his job at Schindler’s factory. 138 48. In The Boy on the Wooden Box by Leon Leyson, what gift would Schindler “accidentally” leave for Leon’s father? A: cigarettes. 141 49. In The Boy on the Wooden Box by Leon Leyson, what is Schindler’s plan to save his workers as the war progresses? A: To move the factory to Czechoslovakia. 145 50. In The Boy on the Wooden Box by Leon Leyson, what job is David forced to do to help the Germans cover their tracks as they began to lose the war? A: Dig up bodies of Jews and burn them. 149 51. In The Boy on the Wooden Box by Leon Leyson, what is the name of the second concentration camp Leon is sent to? A: Gross-Rosen. 153 52. In The Boy on the Wooden Box by Leon Leyson What does he have to do for the guards to prove his physical fitness? A: Run around naked. 154-155 53. In The Boy on the Wooden Box by Leon Leyson What do the Nazis do to his hair at Gross-Rosen? A: They shave his head.