Book Title: Prisoner B-3087
Alan Gratz’s story, Prisoner B-3087, takes place in 1930’s Poland, in the city of Krakow, and revolves around a young Jewish boy named Yanek Gruener. Yanek, along with his family, lived in the Krakow ghetto, and only got to leave the ghetto to sell bread and bake bread at night before curfew. One day, Yanek and his family were separated, unfortunately taken prisoner by the Nazis and became prisoner number B-3087. A tattoo that read his number was printed on his forearm and he was off to his first camp. Throughout the Holocaust, Yanek was sent to 10 different concentration camps and he was beaten, abused, and starved, barley surviving along with the other prisoners. On his fourth concentration camp, he meets his Uncle from the ghetto who tells him that his parents were sent to a separate concentration camp, and are gone. This story was heart-wrenching, and if history’s something you enjoy, I would recommend this book. This book also describes well how the children of the Holocaust didn’t know what was going on, and didn’t understand the opinions that Adolf Hitler had for the Jewish population. Alan Gratz has also written other books, such as Allies, Ground Zero, and Code of Honor, which are books that are related to important historical events.
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Thank you,
Nidhi Gandhi
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