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Prisoner B-3087 Essay By: Jacob M. Gillham, May 15, 2024 The Nazis are invading Krakow, Poland, and living in torture while starving with no family but his Uncle Moshe. He must live six years of torture, starvation, and slavery. Will he live or come face to face with death himself? Yanek Gruner is a nine-year-old boy who lives in Krakow, Poland and is having fun playing the song on the radio with his family. Then, all of a sudden, the radio interrupts and says, “Nazis are invading Poland”. Lock your doors and shut your windows. Do not go outside. They are coming to the house. I repeat, do not go outside.” Then the rest becomes torture. In Alan Gratz’s novel Prisoner B-3087, Yanek Gruner is living in Krakow, Poland, during World War II, and …show more content…

This all started when the Nazis took over Krakow and turned it into what is known as “the Ghetto.” “The Ghetto” Krakow, Poland 1939–1942. The Nazis have started to invade “The Ghetto,” which is now a small part of Krakow. Once the Nazis have tormented Yanek’s friends and family members enough to satisfy the Nazis, they build a wall around “The Ghetto” so the Jews can escape. Then the Nazis take away all of their belongings, limit their food, and burn down the Jew’s synagogue. Yanek's first lesson in “The Ghetto” was that if you work for the Nazis, then you get food, and if you have food, then savoring it would mean you won’t starve, so therefore, Yanek got as many jobs as he could get his hands on, and one time he was cleaning out his house, and while he had been to the second floor many times before, he had not realized that there was a ladder going up to the roof, so Yanek decided to climb up the ladder before anyone shot right on the scene, but once he got up there, Yanek saw a pigeon coop, and at that point, even a pigeon coop was a …show more content…

They were told that the Star of David is how they would get their food, which was a limited amount of it as all the Jews knew, but Yanek played the Nazis game smartly; he would always stay at the back of the line to get the chunkier soup while he watched other people starve, and then, Jews would start to drop like flies, but not Yanek, he would bypass the Nazis's rules and sneak out after the role call to go to his uncle's old bakery, risking his life just to get bread and not starve. Then people realized, that the Arian race had begun, but that was just another tiny step in the Nazis big

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