by Alan Gratz
"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...
A Holocaust novel based on the real life experiences of survivors Ruth and Jack Gruener, Polish-Jews who were young adolescents at the time of the German invasion. Yanek, the protagonist manages to survive multiple death marches and at least ten camps, including Auschwitz, Buchenwald, and Dachau. At...
Standard disclaimer: So I got a review copy of this book for free. They didn’t give be an envelope full of $50 bills with it, just the book (and an electronic copy at that.) I don’t even have to write a review, although people who send you free books tend to think that’s nice. And usually I am nice....
The Nazi atrocities towards anyone they believed to be their inferiors is something that students must continue to learn and study if we hope to avoid something similar in the future. Yet, it is such a tricky subject to approach when children are younger. The need to protect a child’s innocence wars...
Based on a true story Prisoner B-3087 tells the journey of Yanek Gruener, a jewish boy who lives in Krakow. When he is 10 years old the German march into Poland and his life changes forever. He and his family are moved into the Krakower ghetto where they share a house with other families. Later the ...
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