Booktalking "Prisoner B-3087" by Alan Gratz by Miranda McDermott, Harry Belafonte 115th Street LibraryNovember 18, 2014

B for Brikenau Concentration Camp, 3087 for prisoner number. This is how the Nazis define Yanek.

"You're 18 years old, and you have a trade," veteran prisoners desperately advise newcomers to declare in order for them to be chosen as workers. Yanek watches his family be sent to the gas chambers, friends be hanged for sickness, fellow passengers die on long cattle car rides and random inmates be shot for the kapos' sheer amusement.

This should be the stuff of horror films. This is real. This is the holocaust. 

Moshe admonished his nephew:

"Survive at all costs, Yanek. We cannot let these monsters tear us from the pages of the world."

Wieliczka, Birkenau, Auschwitz, Krakow, Trzebinia, Sashsenhausen, Bergen-Belsen, Buchenwald, Gross-Rosen, and Dachau. 10 concentration camps. 4 years.

Prisoner B-3087 by Alan Gratz, 2013

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PRISONER B-3087

Submitted by Hunter Hoffman (not verified) on December 3, 2014 - 3:02pm

I liked this book because it was through the perspective of a Jewish prisoner that went through different concentration camps and survived. Most books now are through the Nazis point of view.