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Title: Surviving Hitler : A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps by Andrea Warren ISBN: 0-06-000767-2 Publisher: HarperTrophy Pub. Date: 17 September, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.85 (13 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: A Real Eye Opener
Comment: This book is written for anyone who wishes to learn more about concentration camps and conditions during World War II in general. I had been taught the factual information and read the famous Anne Frank novel, but this book was a real eye opener. I had no idea how well planned the concentration camps of World War II really were. The fact that the prisoners in most labor camps had triangles denoting their reason for being there whether they were criminals, practiced a religion Hitler opposed, or other social delinquents showed a more sophisticated system than I had fathomed. The concentration camps were a very lucrative business and it is easy to see why when the prisoners are worked all day, fed almost nothing, save the bread filled with sawdust, and rated on the worth of their labor. Jack Mandelbaum is a perfect main character. His hard work and winning personality traits make it easy to see why he managed to stay alive. He has such a positive attitude and strength unimaginable that I don't think God himself could allow him to perish in a camp. Jack's mother is a bit impractical during the war as she still wears high heels in a time when some went without shoes. However, she may have been instrumental in Jack getting his Nazi working papers that in the end saved him from being sent directly to the gas chambers. There is a bright spot in the book when Jack meets and becomes friends with another Jewish prisoner, Moniek. They help to sustain each other and are most likely drawn to each other because of their positive outlook in such a dire situation. This book would be a wonderful novel to be read aloud in a Social Studies or Language Arts class studying the war. So often the military and strategic parts of a war are examined without the personal accounts which makes it all the more difficult to imagine the horrible things that were done. There is a wonderful resource section in the back of the book that would be very valuable to educators. This section details additional recommended books for grades 6-9, books for older readers, films and documentaries for older students, software, and websites.
Rating: 5
Summary: Surving Hitler, "A Boy In a Nazi Death Camp"
Comment: Serving Hitler, by Andrea Waren. The story took place during WWII, in a Nazi concentration camp for Jews. This a true story about a named Jack Mandelbaum.
Jack was twelve when the Nazis put his family in a Ghetto. Where he worked to support his family, because they were separated from his father. The Nazis did not like Jews and blamed them for the loss of WWI. About a year or two later Jacks family was put into a concentration camp. There were two lines for two different camps... but his family didn't know that Jack was put into a different line then his mother and brother. Jack was put into a line for a work camp, and his family went to a death camp.
Jack was alone in a whole new world to him, he didn't know anyone, and he was probly the youngest boy there. A prisoner he befriended helped Jack get through the camp for a while, until Jack got transferred to another camp; told jack to of the camp as a game. The rules were: avoid getting beat, stay clean to avoid getting lice, and stay healthy, so you can go home to your family, and beat Hitler at his own game.
After a while Jack was transferred to a new camp. He meat a boy about his age named Monike. Jack and Monike became best friends. When they both thought they were going to die of starvation a miracle happened. The cooks became very sick and Jack, and Monike were the Luckey souls who got to work with all that food. Jack and Monike new that if they stayed the cooks for a while they might have a chance of living.
After about a year the whole camp was transferred again, and Jack and Monike were not the cooks anymore. In this camp you were if you got to eat once a day. Jack and Monike were separated. Jack was only in this camp about six weeks, and one night the Nazis locked all the barracks. The Nazis left the camp and took all the food and left the Jews for dead. But they knocked down the doors and were free.
Jack was a free man and found his good friend Monike, but sad fully did not have a family to come to. Jack had own Hitler's game but still his family lost. After a while after he searched for his family Jack gave up and moved the United States and started his own family. Jack died in 1998.
Rating: 5
Summary: A boy at camp
Comment: Surviving Hitler was about a boy named Jack who was jewish. Jack lived with his mom,sister,brother, and dad. Jack's dad heard that the nazi's were coming for the jews. Jack's dad sent his family to live with his father in a small village. Jack's dad did not go because he did not have enough money. Before Jack and his family left Jacks sister went to stay with her aunt so she could help her aunt with the baby she just had. Jack and his family finally arrive at there grandfathers house. They stay there for a while then the Nazi's come and put all the jews in little houses with more than one family. Jacks father still has not came back to them. One night in the middle of the night Nazi's came and made the jews immediately leave. Jack and his family waited in line and when it was there turn jack showed the soldier that he had a nazi work stamp. Jack thought it would get his whole family through , but it only got him through. Jack was seperated from his family. Jack was moved to several different camps for his good labor. Then he met a really good friend and they were moved to be camp cooks. Jack would have died a couple of days later if he had not worked in the kitchen. You will have to read the book to see if Jack survives or if he will be reunited with his family.
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Title: Four Perfect Pebbles: A Holocaust Story by Lila Perl ISBN: 0380731886 Publisher: HarperTrophy Pub. Date: 09 November, 1999 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: The Shrouding Woman by Loretta Ellsworth ISBN: 0805066519 Publisher: Henry Holt & Company, Inc. Pub. Date: 01 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Phineas Gage: A Gruesome but True Story About Brain Science by John Fleischman ISBN: 0618052526 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 25 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Memory Boy by Will Weaver ISBN: 006440854X Publisher: Harpercollins Juvenile Books Pub. Date: 18 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Trouble Don't Last by SHELLEY PEARSALL ISBN: 0440418119 Publisher: Yearling Books Pub. Date: 09 December, 2003 List Price(USD): $5.50 |
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