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Bryce Karnes Comber Independent Study 6 April 2023 Book Report on Prisoner-B3087 Prisoner B-3087 is a novel written by Alan Gratz, it makes you see the perspective of the holocaust through a Jewish boy named Yanek Gruener. The book is primarily historical fiction, but it is based on real-life events and real people. Yanek Gruener, who is the main character of the book, is based on Jack Gruener, who was captured as a teenager and survived six concentration camps throughout World War II and later immigrated to the United States. This book is a good fiction novel for people to be able to learn about the violence, concentration camp life, and the PTSD that holocaust survivors face to this day. Yanek witnesses the awful murders of his family and friends, and lives through the horrors of these concentration camps. Despite the terrible situation he is in, Yanek manages to survive these horrors through his determination and a will to stay alive.This is shown on page In part of the book, Yanek is forced to work all day in a crematorium. He is surrounded by …show more content…

S, also related a ton. You can tell that Alan Gratz really took a lot of time to make Yanek’s story resemble the real thing. The part that stood out to me the most was how both the made up character and Mrs. S became so numb to the point that they felt as if it was a game. In the book, Yanek states, “It was all a big joke. I could see that now. There was no rhyme or reason to whether we lived or died. One day it might be the man next to you at roll call who is torn apart by dogs. The next day it might be you who is shot through the head. You could play the game perfectly and still lose, so why bother playing at all?” and in the article Mrs. S told Chodoff that, “Well, it didn’t bother me either. I had no feelings whatsoever. I couldn’t care less at this point of the game. It really didn’t matter.” I just found this very interesting since they both called the camps a

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In the first book of The Michael Vey Series; Michael Vey: Prisoner of Cell 25 by Richard Paul Evans. One true theme to this story is evident and that is When things are looking dispirited, make sure to look for hope in all places, because having hope and trust will get you through your toughest problems. This proves to be true when Michael is on his last stroke of luck when he finds his true friends who are also electric, like him. Not to mention that his mom and his electric friends are kidnapped and he has to find hope in his once bullies. This may apply to this book but it also applies to many others, and you can be the person that someone finds safeguard in.

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“We cannot let these monsters tear us from the pages of the world.” A quote from the book Prisoner B-3087. That quote was what gave Yanek Gruener the drive to survive through years of concentration camps. Yanek was a Polish Jew, he was moved from his home into the Krakow ghetto where he lived in a pigeon coop. Several months after moving to the ghetto, Yanek had everything taken from at the age of ten, including his family.

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"Remembering Survival: Inside a Nazi Slave-Labor Camp" by Christopher Browning is a powerful and very moving book that tells the story of Jewish survivors of the concentration camp in Nazi-occupied Poland during World War II. The book is based on interviews and experiences that Browning conducted with the survivors in the 1990s, and he provides a vivid and harrowing account of their experiences and trauma. Christopher Browning’s goal in writing the novel was to capture the essence of what happened to the survivors during the Holocaust from the perspective of people who were actually there to witness and experience it. He used the words of the survivors, dates, events, and knowledge of all his research to make an accurate and reliable depiction

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Jay Patel Mrs.Eisenbeis English 2BH Period 1 February 2016 Night Essay The Holocaust was a tough and terrible time for the Jewish people, they struggled to survive, and the ones that did are telling their story today. The book “Night” is a memoir written by Elie Wiesel. The book is about the main character Elie Wiesel, and how Eliezer’s family are from a small town, put in a concentration camp after being separated. Elie goes with his father and they both have to survive the harshness of Auschwitz.

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Have you ever thought about how it would feel to be in a concentration camp during the Holocaust? The book Night written by Elie Wiesel, it is about a 16 year old named Eliezer. He is a Holocaust survivor and tells about his time in the concentration camps. It is in first person about how he felt, what he saw and what had happened to him. Hope is good until you lose it.

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Brenna Schultz College Intro to Literature Kraus 29 April 2023 Surviving the Impossible The memoir Night tells the story of Elie Wiesel, a studious Jewish teenager, living in Hungary in the early 1940s. He and his family are sent to Auschwitz, a concentration camp. In Auschwitz, Wiesel struggles to maintain his faith, while witnessing other prisoners lose their faith and humanity. While Wiesel was at the camp, he and the other prisoners were faced with many “choiceless choices”, which is a term coined by Lawrence Langer to describe no-win situations faced by Jews during the Holocaust.

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The Hardships of Elie Weisel’s Time in the Holocaust Elie Wiesel, a holocaust survivor, has been through physical and mental suffering. The memoir Night written by Elie Weisel, unveils these struggles. The memoir goes through his experiences in the five concentration camps that he has been in during the holocaust in World War II. The holocaust was the extermination of six million Jews. The concentration camps that Elie Wiesel was in during the Holocaust were filled with dehumanizing actions that are detailed in his memoir “Night”.

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Eliezer, a little Jewish boy, and his family are taken from their home in Sighet, Transylvania, and brought to Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps in Night by Elie Wiesel, an autobiographical novel set during World War Two. The horrors of the Holocaust and the struggle for survival in the face of terrible suffering are powerfully and unsettlingly portrayed in the novel. The first terrible thing that happened to Elie was when he, along with his family and the rest of the Jewish population, was rounded up and sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp. This was a traumatic experience for Elie, as he had never been subjected to such cruel treatment before.

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“Never shall I forget that night in the camp, that turned my life into one long night seven times sealed.” Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel tells the true and terrifying story of life inside the concentration camps during War II. As the author and main character in his book Night, Elie gives a first hand account of many of his experiences, some of which change him and some which do not. Overall, Elie is a dynamic character because Elie begins to question his faith in God, Elie’s attitude towards his father changes for the worse, and Elie starts to get more used to violent acts since he witnessed so much of it. First and foremost Elie begins to question his faith in God.

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