holocaust

Category: ReviewAuthor: Alan GratzGenres: Action, Historical Fiction, Holocaust, Middle Grade, survival, WWII, Young AdultSurvive. At any cost. 10 concentration camps. 10 different places where you are starved, tortured, and worked mercilessly. It’s something no one could imagine surviving. But it is what Yanek Gruener has to face. As a Jewish boy in 1930s Poland, Yanek is at the mercy of the Nazis who have taken over. Everything he has, and everyone he loves, have been snatched brutally from him. And then Yanek himself is taken prisoner — his arm tattooed with the words PRISONER B-3087. He is forced from one nightmarish concentration camp to another, as World War II rages all around him. He encounters evil he could have never imagined, but also sees surprising glimpses of hope amid the horror. He just barely escapes death, only to confront it again seconds later. Can Yanek make it through the terror without losing his hope, his will — and, most of all, his sense of who he really is inside? Based on an astonishing true story.Just finished reading Alan Gratz’ Prisoner B-3087 about a young Jewish boy was only 10 years old when the Nazis invaded his homeland of Poland. Yanek’s story covers his life as survived his early teen years in one concentration camp after another, from 1939 to 1945. It’s based on the true story of Jack and Ruth Gruener, real holocaust survivors. Yanek’s story is a difficult read at times. Thankfully, and hopefully, none of us has actually Read more