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De jongen die tien concentratiekampen overleefde vertelt het waargebeurde verhaal van Yanek, een Joods jongetje tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog in Polen. Als de nazi’s de jacht op de joden openen in het land, verandert zijn vertrouwde leventje in een nachtmerrie die helaas werkelijkheid is . Hij wordt van het ene concentratiekamp in het andere geplaatst, uitgehongerd, gemar
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Paperback, 192 pages
Published
November 2013
by Kluitman
(first published March 1st 2013)
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Nov 15, 2012
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Prisoner B-3087 is a novel, based on the true story of Jack Gruener’s formative years in concentration camps. Anyone vaguely familiar with the Holocaust will find it remarkably difficult to determine where Mr. Gratz took liberties. At a blush, this may seem like a heavy topic for the intended audience of younger students (Middle and Jr. High); however, in its simplicity, I believe that the story is perfectly presented.
The horror unfolds through the eyes of Yanek (later to known as Ja ...more
The horror unfolds through the eyes of Yanek (later to known as Ja ...more
Actual Rating: 1.75
The story of Yanek Gruener is not an outstandingly unique one. His story, or at least something akin to his, has been told numerous times in the past, under different names of course. Nevertheless, I seem to be attracted to reading these sorts of stories even though I know how everyone of them ends.
I picked this one up mostly because of the title and the cover. It's sort of beautiful in a very plain and morbid way. It looks similar to a graphic novel's cover I read a while ago - whi ...more
The story of Yanek Gruener is not an outstandingly unique one. His story, or at least something akin to his, has been told numerous times in the past, under different names of course. Nevertheless, I seem to be attracted to reading these sorts of stories even though I know how everyone of them ends.
I picked this one up mostly because of the title and the cover. It's sort of beautiful in a very plain and morbid way. It looks similar to a graphic novel's cover I read a while ago - whi ...more
I am not certain what I expected from this book .. maybe a little more fiction: some, off the wall connections and actions that were obviously not something that truly happened. I think I walked into it with that bias, as it continuously comments on it being BASED on the true story of Jack (or Yanek) Gruener. Since it wasn't his complete true story, and it was only based on it, I figured the rest of it would have been bolstered with untruths.
That was what it wasn't, however. At the end of ...more
That was what it wasn't, however. At the end of ...more
Yanek Gruener is ten years old, Jewish, and living in Poland in the late 1930's. One day, the Nazis take over his town and Yanek's journey through the Jewish ghetto and ten different concentration camps begins. Yanek watches as everything, and everyone, he loves is taken away from him. There's no escape -- only survival. Every time Yanek barely escapes death, every time he watches the Nazi's brutally murder those around them, he pledges to fight by living to carry on the memory of those who were
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Prisoner B-3087 was one of my favorite books that i've read this year. The book is about a boy who survived through the Holocaust. I would recommend this book to people who like history. I really liked the book, and I think anyone who picks it up will end up enjoying it.
Yanek Gruener, Prisoner B-3087, is a fictionalized version of the true story of Jack Gruener. Yanek and his family are Jews living in Krakow, Poland, when it is invaded by the Nazi's. It follows the construction of the ghetto there, the consolidation of the Jews, and then their mass deportations to factories, work or death camps. Eventually, teenage Yanek ends up alone, with sage advice from his uncle to trust and care about no one. During the war, Yanek is transferred to ten different concentra
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You know of Elie Wiesel, Anne Frank, and Oskar Schindler, or do you? After attending a crucial seminar in the study of the Holocaust in Delaware, attending the Holocaust Museum, studying the Holocaust at the University of Delaware for a summer, and continuing to return to the very heart of why knowing about the Holocaust is so important, this text does not add any more depression to the theme of the Holocaust, it simply adds to the motivation to educate more and more generations about why this i
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I flew this book because it always had me in suspense. The story was uneasing and it blows my mind what the Nazis did to the Jews. This story was about a little boy named Yanek. Yanek is a Jew and when he and his family get put into concentration camps, they get separated. Once in his first camp tho, he finds his uncle. His uncle told him that everyone else in the family had been killed by the Nazis. It was a very sad book and it was horrifying what these people did. From putting the Jews in gas
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Recommended for ages 12 and up.
This new Holocaust novel by author Alan Gratz is based on the true story of Yanek Gruener, a Jewish boy living in Krakow whose comfortable, middle-class life is turned upside down when the Nazis take over his country in 1939. The title, of course, refers to the number tattooed by the Nazis on his arm at one of the ten concentration camps he managed to survive. In fact, survival at all cost is the theme of this gripping and moving novel, told in the firs ...more
This new Holocaust novel by author Alan Gratz is based on the true story of Yanek Gruener, a Jewish boy living in Krakow whose comfortable, middle-class life is turned upside down when the Nazis take over his country in 1939. The title, of course, refers to the number tattooed by the Nazis on his arm at one of the ten concentration camps he managed to survive. In fact, survival at all cost is the theme of this gripping and moving novel, told in the firs ...more
This is a review of the book Prisoner B-3087. The book takes place in Poland and Germany during WWII. Yanek, the main character in the story, and his family are Jewish and have to live in the ghetto that the Nazis have turned their home town into. Life is very hard for them, they have very little food, and they are forced to live with 4 other families in their small apartment.
Eventually Yanek is captured and taken to a concentration camp. Yanek stays in the camp for a little while an ...more
Eventually Yanek is captured and taken to a concentration camp. Yanek stays in the camp for a little while an ...more
When I was younger I started reading this, and unbeknownst to me I ended up never finishing it. Until recently when my interest piqued into the works of WWII and I decided I would re-read/finish the book, and I am happy that I did.I would recommend this book to any WWII fanatic such as myself.
This is a good book and I would recommend it. If you like WWII and like to learn about the conflict between Germany and Jewish people than this is the book for you.
I really liked the book Prisoner B-3087. It is a book about a young Jewish boy named Yanek Gruener and his large family who lived in Krakow, Poland in the 1940's. During the time they lived, the Nazis were taking over the Jews because they didn't like the Jews by their differences and by how they were. I think that is not fair. Yanek and his family had been hiding so the Nazis wouldn't take them and kill them slowly by the inhumane, terrible things they had prepared to end the Jews. I thought t
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I honestly really liked this book, because it made me realize about everything that has been done in the past. The book started out really good, up until the point where Poland was attacked. Yanek and his family survived 3 years in the ghetto. Yanek survived 10 concentration camps, where he got beat sometimes for no reason at all. Yanek saw when his parents where deported. Yanek never really lasted long in the concentration camps, for 3 years he moved from camp to camp. Meeting new people and se
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I think that it is a really good book, and that I really recommend it.
The book, Prisoner B-3087 is all about hope, perseverance and staying strong. Yanek, a Jewish boy, is forced to go to many concentration camps. The action happening throughout the book keeps the reader wanting to read more. The author uses descriptive language that helps create a clear picture to what's happening. The book inspires the reader to keep their spirit up despite whats happening
Imagine surviving 1 ghetto, 10 concentration camps and 2 death marches. Well, here is the story of a boy who did just that.
At 10 years old, Yanek Gruener's life means friends, school and most importantly, being surrounded by loving relatives all living in the center of Krakow, Poland. But his relatives know that soon something is going to happen - after all, they are Jews in a Europe that Hitler wants to make "Jew free." Sure enough, only six days after the German invasion of Poland, ...more
At 10 years old, Yanek Gruener's life means friends, school and most importantly, being surrounded by loving relatives all living in the center of Krakow, Poland. But his relatives know that soon something is going to happen - after all, they are Jews in a Europe that Hitler wants to make "Jew free." Sure enough, only six days after the German invasion of Poland, ...more
this book was really good. it was really interesting and once you start reading it you can't put the book down.
10 concentration camps and 2 death Marches
Imagine having you life being taken away for you. Your family, your friends, your home, anything and everything that you ever had… Gone. This is what Yanek had to go through. He had his family, friends and life taken away from him. After that he as sent to a concentration camp where he fought for survival. He is fighting for survival becuase it is just a game to the Germans and he want to win. Hard work, little food, harsh condition, will he be able to ...more
Imagine having you life being taken away for you. Your family, your friends, your home, anything and everything that you ever had… Gone. This is what Yanek had to go through. He had his family, friends and life taken away from him. After that he as sent to a concentration camp where he fought for survival. He is fighting for survival becuase it is just a game to the Germans and he want to win. Hard work, little food, harsh condition, will he be able to ...more
Overall just an amazing book. Strongly recommended to anyone.
I absolutely loved this book because it told me a lot about the horrible things that Hitler and the Nazis did to the Jewish and I can't even believe about the horrible things that the Jewish had to go through just because they weren't German. I could never imagine what they went though. This book was by far one of the greatest books I have ever read and I am so glad that I read it. To read this book did not take me very long because I was reading this non stop because it was so good and I was ju
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Apr 10, 2019
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This book is bested on the true story of a Jewish boy named Yanek, who lived in Poland during WWII. When the Germans came to occupy Poland, they forced Yanek and other Jews into tightly packed Ghettos. Most of Yanek's family was taken away to various places, never to be seen again. Then, Yanek was taken away to a concentration camp. He moved through 9 others. He got a tattoo on his arm "B-3087" which was his prisoners number. Yanek changed his name to Jack Gruener at the end of the war and moved
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I actually really liked this book. It's about a kid named Yanek, he liked school, his family and his friends. At first Yanek and his family got away with hiding in a pigeon coop, but soon after they were dragged to go work at camps. Eventually they got Yanek and at his first camp he found his Uncle Moshe, but soon realizes the rest of his family were dead. Each day Yanek kept on getting weaker and weaker, since they didn't feed them much. Thorough the whole story the Nazis treated them pretty ba
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In this book, a young Jewish boy that lives with his family in Krakow, Poland during WWII. When the Nazis invade Poland and get to Krakow, they made a area where they called it the "ghetto". It was where they put all the Jews. His family manages to stay in hiding for a while, but then eventually everyone in his family gets captured to work in concentration camps. When Yanek eventually also gets captured. He gets moved through many more concentration camps until he is free.
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Alan Gratz writes this great Golden Sower, “Prisoner B-3087.” The book is about this boy named Yanek who is taken from his house, and is taken to a bunch of different camps that are very harsh on the prisoners. The only thing that matters in these camps is to survive. Yanek had stated, “It was silly, but eerie at the same time,” (Page 7) as German soldiers marched up their street, right to their homes. Will Yanek survive? Will anyone save him before anything bad happens to him? How will Yanek s
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Prisoner B-3087
This book is about a boy named Yanek who is alive around the time of hitler who makes all Jews move to the same small village, the soldiers in the village are aloud to just take people off the streets to work in factory's so Yanek's family makes Yanek stay off the streets. (I am skipping to prevent spoiling)Later in the book Yanek does not know what happened to his family and he is alone in his town, then Nick gets taken to a boot camp where the owners kill jews withou ...more
This book is about a boy named Yanek who is alive around the time of hitler who makes all Jews move to the same small village, the soldiers in the village are aloud to just take people off the streets to work in factory's so Yanek's family makes Yanek stay off the streets. (I am skipping to prevent spoiling)Later in the book Yanek does not know what happened to his family and he is alone in his town, then Nick gets taken to a boot camp where the owners kill jews withou ...more
A gripping story of how one boy survived the Holocaust. Beginning with his home in Krakow that was turned into a Polish ghetto he was moved through ten different camps. As far as he knows, all the rest of his family have been killed and he is the last remaining Greuner to carry on his family name. His resolve to live without giving up his humanity is amazing. As Yanek, now called Jack, Greuner said no one can understand if you did not live through it, but this book enlightens. A must read for an
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What i think of the book was the book was great because he survives at the end of the story. The Americans saved all the Jews from the Germans. Yankel survived all the camps he has bean though he suffered through a lot and he lost some of his family. It was a sad story because he lost his family but it was just his uncle but he moved to a different camp the he was a lone but he makes friends on the way to new camps but they end up dieing because they get sick.
This historical fiction novel is based on the true story of Yanek Gruener, a Polish Jew during WWII. Gratz chronicles Yanek's nightmarish experiences in ten different Nazi concentration camps while he struggles to survive the cruelty of the Nazis and the depravity of the camps' conditions. It's an astonishing tale of hope and survival in the very darkest of times.
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“If I had known what the next six years of my life were going to be like, I would have eaten more. I wouldn't have complained about brushing my teeth, or taking a bath, or going to bed at eight o'clock every night. I would have played more. Laughed more. I would have hugged my parents and told them I loved them. But I was ten years old, and I had no idea of the nightmare that was to come. None of us did.”
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“Your parents, Oskar and Mina. They are dead and gone now, Yanek, and we would grieve them if we could. But we have only one purpose now: survive. Survive at all costs, Yanek. We cannot let these monsters tear us from the pages of the world.”
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