Surviving Hitler
Books | Juvenile Nonfiction / History / Holocaust
4.1
Andrea Warren
What was the secret to surviving the death camps? How did you keep from dying of heartbreak in a place of broken hearts and broken bodies? "Think of it as a game, Jack," an older prisoner tells him. "Play the game right and you might outlast the Nazis."Caught up in Hitler's Final Solution to annihilate Europe's Jews, fifteen-year-old Jack is torn from his family and thrown into the nightmarish world of the concentration camps.Despite intolerable conditions, Jack resolves not to hate his captors, and vows to see his family again. He forges friendships with other prisoners, and together they struggle to make it one more hour, one more day. But even with his strong will to live, can Jack survive the life-and-death game he is forced to play with his Nazi captors? Award-winning author Andrea Warren has crafted an unforgettable true a story of courage, friendship, family love, and a boy becoming a man in the shadow of the Third Reich.
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Author
Andrea Warren
Pages
160
Publisher
HarperCollins
Published Date
2001-03-06
ISBN
0688174973 9780688174972
Ratings
Google: 5
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"Insightful experiences from Jack Mandelbaum who was a Holocaust survivor.<br/><br/>““It is amazing how much misery the human body can tolerate,” Jack said…”And I wondered, How did I survive those winters when I had only a thin uniform to wear while I worked outdoors all day doing heavy labor?”<br/><br/>Greater than the physical suffering is the emotional. “Almost all of us suffer from post-traumatic stress syndrome…At the Jewish Community Center day school, I sometimes see preschoolers lined up with their teacher. I tremble, remembering that the Germans marched little ones just like that to the gas chambers.””<br/><br/>"
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"Such a great book for a true story. Usually I don't like true stories but this is top notch 👌. Just amazing. I almost cried towards the end, warning anyone reading this without reading the book first, this one is a crier. We read this aloud at school and my teacher and seven other students were crying through chapter 13."
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