Leon Leyson was just shy of ten years old when the Germans invaded Krakow, Poland, where he lived with his parents and siblings. For Leon and his family, 1939 was the start of several years of misery, starvation, torment, inconceivable inhumanity, and loss. The Boy on the Wooden Box is an important memoir of a boy who survived the most horrific time in world history.
Create a visual vocabulary board for terms relating to The Boy on the Wooden Box and the Holocaust
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CONCENTRATION CAMP
GESTAPO
CONFISCATED
We are confiscating it all!
A place for political prisoners and members of national or minority groups who are confined for reasons, exploitation, or punishment, usually by executive decree or military order.
Also known as the SS, the Gestapo was the secret police of Nazi Germany and in German-occupied Europe.