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The moving, true story of young Janek, who also visited Auschwitz
"Heartbreaking, captivating, raw and emotional..." - VOYA
"Alan Gratz is a master of historical fiction based on reality, so even teenagers can process the events easily." - Helen's Book Blog
They could take everything from him. Not just hope!
Ten concentration camps.
Ten places where they were starved, tortured, forced into slave labor.
Where the Jews were murdered in heaps.
He had no chance, he knew it well...
Janek Grüner still wanted to stay alive.
He was eleven years old when the Nazis entered his hometown of Krakow.
Everything and everyone he loved was taken from him, dragged from camp to camp.
He no longer had a name, only a number: he was prisoner B-3087, as it was tattooed on his arm.
Hell has become an everyday reality. The crowded cattle cars, the barracks, the cruel guards, the death that reaps in abundance every day. The horrors of the Holocaust that have since become famous paraded in front of him: Amon Göth with his dogs, Mengele, Ilse Koch, the witch of Buchenwald, the crematoria of Birkenau, the quarries, the Wieliczka salt mine...
Janek saw it all, he was there.
Somehow he always escaped from the throat of death, only to have to fight for his life again.
Can you survive the horrors? And if he manages to survive, can he get himself back, or will he remain a prisoner of B-3087, desperately clinging to the last straw of life?
The new international bestseller of the author of the novel Refugees, which was also a huge success here, is based on a true story.
Author: Alan Gratz
