PRISONER B-3087

PRISONER B-3087 by Alan Gratz

Alan Gratz has done it again. He has written another heart wrenching story that makes you grateful to live in the time period you do, in the country you do. However, this one is based on the true story of Ruth and Jack Gruener.

Isaac finished Prisoner B-3087 first and brought it to me saying, "You gotta read this one, Mom. It's better than Refugee!" I did read it, and it is AMAZING!

Prisoner B-3087 is set in Poland when the Nazis come in and occupy it. It revolves around a boy named Yanek Gruner whose whole family and most of his neighbors are taken to concentration camps. What makes this book so amazing and different is that Yanek, himself, ends up living in ten different concentration camps where he is subjected to all kinds of inhumane treatment. It is unbelievable what he endures personally and what he sees. This book is not for the faint of heart.

Heads Up- You are dealing with concentration camps and the constant moving of Jews to them. Sometimes people are taken out and shot. Sometimes they die in the train cars because they are packed in too tightly. Sometimes dogs get them, etc. etc. It is rough, but it is real.