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The book that I was reading is called "The Boy on the Wooden Box" and it is about a boy named Leon who is the youngest survivor to be on Schindler's list at the age of 10. The book had many dramatic causes and shows how his life was in the ghetto. My question was how it changed his life during the holocaust. The holocaust changed Leon's life in many different ways during the holocaust. In the beginning of the book he was just an average kid who hangs out with his friends and having a fun time. Soon days when the holocaust started he changed a lot because of all the things he witnessed in the ghetto. He was scarred for life seeing all the things happening to his people.

There are many things in the book that the author used in a article that I read. In the book it talked about Leon hanging out with his friends and then hearing that he can't play with them anymore and that they never want to see him again. In the article it says "Followers of the Jewish faith were often viewed as strange outsiders by their Christian neighbors" This shows how many people were brainwashed and think the Jews were the actual threat which also caused Leon to lose his friends.

Another thing that the author used from information in the book is when the Nazis start taking over his town and sending them to the ghetto. In the article it says "In September 1939, the German army invaded the western half of Poland, marking the beginning of World War II. German forces soon forced tens of thousands of Polish Jews from their homes." In the book Leon witness is town getting taken over and his family being forced out of the house and sent to the ghetto. It shows how much the author put into when making this book to show the amount of emotions the readers have.