"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
Alan Gratz web site
Books about the Holocaust
Source: www.nypl.org
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