![]() While a work of historical fiction, any liberties taken by Gratz were done so with the real Gruener’s blessing in order to better illustrate what Jews and other groups considered “undesirable” by the Nazis went through in their concentration camps. The book chronicles the fall of his home in Kraków, Poland, Yanek’s separation from his family, and the events surrounding his torment as a Nazi prisoner. ![]() ![]() Prisoner B-3087 uses the Holocaust survival story of Jack Gruener in order to showcase the horrors of the Holocaust in such a way that the target demographic of the book-middle and high schoolers-will understand the terror surrounding this point in history.Ĭalled by his Polish name, Yanek, the novel follows Jack’s story from the time the war began when he was ten to his survival of the concentration camps at sixteen. The tale told in Alan Gratz’s Young Adult novel Prisoner B-3087 is one of these stories. These testimonies are important, as they signify the darkest time in modern human history, a grim reminder of what evils humanity is capable of. ![]() ![]() No truer does this ring than with the countless stories of Holocaust survivors that have been told in the decades since World War II. The stories that survive are the ones that define history. ![]()
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