Agent: Barry Goldblatt, Barry Goldblatt Literary. But more often, Gratz ably conveys Yanek’s incredulity (“Not long ago, all these half-dead creatures around me had been people”), fatalism, yearning, and determination in the face of the unimaginable. Gratz (Fantasy Baseball) has fictionalized some aspects of Gruener’s life to “paint a fuller and more representative picture of the Holocaust as a whole,” and this determination to be exhaustively inclusive, along with lapses into History Channel–like prose, threatens to overwhelm the story. Yanek is finally liberated at age 16, when American soldiers arrive at Dachau. Number in the book’s title), Auschwitz, Sachsenhausen, Bergen-Belsen, Buchenwald, Gross-Rosen. Having lost his parents and close relatives just as he entered adolescence (Yanek has a secret bar mitzvah in a basement of the Krakow ghetto), the boy is totally alone as his life becomes a roll-call of nightmares: Trzebinia, Bir-kenau (where his arm is tattooed with the “Survive,” however, hardly seems adequate to describe what unfolds in these pages. He just barely escapes death only to confront it again seconds later.The Nazis killed more than one million Jewish children and teenagers Jack (Yanek) Gruener, who was 10 when Krakow, Poland, fell, was a rare survivor. He encounters evil he could have never imagined but also sees surprising glimpses of hope amid the horror. It takes place in multiple concentration camps across Poland and Germany and in Krakow during World War 2. This book is based on true events, but is historical fiction.

He is forced from one nightmarish concentration camp to another as World War II rages all around him. Prisoner B 3087 Book Report 1326 Words6 Pages The name of my book is Prisoner B-3087 and it is written by Alan Gratz. And then Yanek himself is taken prisoner - his arm tattooed with the words PRISONER B-3087. Everything he has and everyone he loves have been snatched brutally from him. As a Jewish boy in 1930s Poland, Yanek is at the mercy of the Nazis, who have taken over.

The Nazis killed more than one million Jewish children and teenagers Jack (Yanek) Gruener, who was 10 when. But it is what Yanek Gruener has to face. Scholastic Press, 16.99 (272p) ISBN 978-1-3. It's something no one could imagine surviving. Ten different places where you are starved, tortured, and worked mercilessly. Based on the true story by Ruth and Jack Gruener. A gripping novel based on the astonishing true story of a boy who survived 10 concentration camps.

Prisoner B-3087 by Alan Gratz