![]() ![]() Agent: Barry Goldblatt, Barry Goldblatt Literary. But it is what Yanek Gruener has to face. Its something no one could imagine surviving. 10 different places where you are starved, tortured, and worked mercilessly. ![]() 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. Prisoner B-3087 By Alan Gratz, Ruth Gruener, Jack Gruener 28 ratings 32 reviews 41 followers Buy Book Save Book 10 concentration camps. 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. 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. ![]()
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