Jack Mandelbaum: The Worst Childhood Pasts

Jack Mandelbaum has had one of the worst childhood pasts then most people. September 1, 1939 was when the town in Poland was invaded by the Nazi’s. He was sent to concentration camps for that reason, even though he didn’t do anything wrong, and he isn’t even a Jew. A concentration camp is a camp for Jews, drug addicts, African American people, robbers, and pretty much any one that Hitler thought didn’t fit society. No, it was not one of those camps where you could have a campfire, have fun, and play sports. Well, there was one sport. It was called, “Try to escape and not die”. They went on death marches, they gassed people in gas chambers, they did brutal medical experiments, and much more. Jack Mandelbaum took a stand by surviving the camps. Hitler wanted every single Jew to die in that concentration camp, and lets just say, it kind of worked. One camp in particular has had killed more than 1.1 million people, and 1 million of those people were jews. That concentration camp was Auschwitz. Jack was even sent there, and he still survived. He says, “You couldn’t have doubt. The second you have doubt, you were dead.” Jack definitely took a stand. You can’t just say that surviving the worlds deadliest camp “just means that you have luck”. It doesn’t. It means that you have hope, and that you work hard. If you work

He was in line for the gas chambers, when he was pulled out of line by a guard who asked, “Are you a Jew?”. Jack told him that he was born and raised as a Catholic, but he’s ancestors are Jews. So, the guard took him to a different line, which was for the death march, which he survived. So, some people think he survived because he wasn’t sent to any gas chambers, because he was really Catholic. Mostly Jews were sent to gas chambers, and if you weren’t a Jew, you wouldn’t be sent there unless you were not obeying in the