Prisoner B-3087
Survive. 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....
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Survive. 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.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780545459013 (054545901X)
ASIN: 054545901X
Publish date: March 1st 2013
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Pages no: 272
Edition language: English
Category:
Young Adult,
Childrens,
Adventure,
Teen,
History,
Survival,
Realistic Fiction,
Juvenile,
Historical Fiction,
Middle Grade,
War,
World War II,
Holocaust
"But we have one purpose now: survive. Survive at all costs, Yanek. We cannot let those monsters tear us from the pages of the world." These types of books are always heartbreaking to read. Every time I pick up a holocaust story I find it hard to take in how cruel humans can be, especially when rea...
I only wished the six years that Yanek a.k.a Jakob lived in the German camps could have went as fast as this book went for me. Jakob was a Polish Jew when the Germans invaded his town in 1939. One moment it was happening far away and the next it was at their doorstep, the changes were happening qu...
Will keep it short, I don't really tend to review books about these kind of topics. In short, it was a beautiful, heartwrenching story of a Jewish boy during the WOII. He survived everything, but lost so much. We see him grow up, from little boy, to his Bar mitzvah and then to the camps and to whe...
Check out Scott Reads It! for reviews, giveaways, and more! The Holocaust is an extremely tough subject to read about, no book could ever truly express how horrific, terrible, and inhumanely people were treated. Many of family members died in the Holocaust and it kills me to continue readi...
I've read a lot of Holocaust literature over the past ten or so years, but Prisoner B-3087 is a little different to what I normally read in that it is a fictionalisation of a true survivors' story. And what a story it is.Yanek Gruener isn't even a teenager when the Nazi's invade Poland, but he grows...
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