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Name: Prisoner B-3087
Author: Gratz, Alan
ISBN: [978-0-545-45901-3,0-545-45901-X]

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Prisoner B-3087

Author: Gratz, Alan

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Follett Number: 0541ZE0
Audience: Middle School
Publisher: Scholastic Press, 2013
Format: 260 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN-13: 978-0-545-45901-3
ISBN-10: 0-545-45901-X
LCCN: 2012-012460
Dewey: -Fic-
Classifications: Fiction

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Biographical Fiction

Gruener, Jack Fiction

Historical Fiction

Holocaust Survivors Fiction

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Poland Fiction

Jews Poland Krakow Fiction

Krakow (Poland) History Fiction

Poland History Fiction

"Based on the true story by Ruth and Jack Gruener.";"While the story of Jack Gruener is true--and remarkable--this book is a work of fiction. As an author I've taken some liberties with time and events to paint a fuller and more representative picture of the Holocaust as a whole."--Afterword. Based on the life of Jack Gruener, this book relates his story of survival from the Nazi occupation of Krakow, when he was eleven, through a succession of concentration camps, to the final liberation of Dachau.

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Survive. At any cost. 10 concentration camps. 10 different places where you are starved, tortured, and worked mercilessly. It's something no one could imagine surviving. But it is what Yanek Gruener has to face. As a Jewish boy in 1930s Poland, Yanek is at the mercy of the Nazis who have taken over. Everything he has, and everyone he loves, have been snatched brutally from him. And then Yanek himself is taken prisoner -- his arm tattooed with the words PRISONER B-3087. He is forced from one nightmarish concentration camp to another, as World War II rages all around him. He encounters evil he could have never imagined, but also sees surprising glimpses of hope amid the horror. He just barely escapes death, only to confront it again seconds later. Can Yanek make it through the terror without losing his hope, his will -- and, most of all, his sense of who he really is inside? Based on an astonishing true story.

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