85% or 2,800, 000 Jews killed in Poland. All were numbed with terror and fear of what will happen next. Just think of what they had to go through, oh wait for you cant cause you will never understand or feel what happened to them and how the Nazis treated the Jews. The Holocaust means Holocaust: “great or wholesale destruction by fire” (“Holocaust”). The true story of a boy who survived in the holocaust is told in the book Prisoner b-3087 by Alan Gratz. the main characters name is Yanek. Yanek was only 7 years young when Hitler came to power. He and his family mixed with other families worked and lived in camps and ghettos for many years. Almost all of the time they were experiencing the worst ways to live and when they weren't doing that they were sleeping in the cold still miserable and sometimes not even sleeping at all. Later on in the book all of his family died but his uncle lived and found him in a camp that Yanek got moved to. The Holocaust was the darkest time in history, a time when the Jews faced legalized discrimination and inhumane treatment. …show more content…
The concentration camps and the things his family lived in were almost never cleaned always filthy and full of rats and lice. The reason why was because there living quarters were never cleaned and never had the time to because they were either working or sleeping. Also, Yanek was never allowed to go to school even though his parents believed in it because he and his family were Jewish. Another freedom that was taken away was where they got to sleep, some were not allowed to sleep in a bed like Yanek had to sleep with his family in a chicken coop on top of the roof where it was freezing cold. This kind of discrimination and inhumane treatment made Yanek realize that the Nazis didn't care if you were the sweetest person on earth or the meanest all Jews are not like the rest of