Surviving Hitler
A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps

There's always room for another book telling the story of a Holocaust survivor. This is a particularly nice one for young adults. It isn't too long or graphic, but still doesn't pull punches in sharing the experiences of 15-year-old Jack Mandelbaum. Jack survived his time in concentrations camps for......more

The book begins in pre-war Poland, with a fourteen-year-old Jack Mandelbaum living a very comfortable life with his family in the small town of Gdynia. The story takes us through the transformation of Poland from a peaceful European country to a place embroiled in the second World War. Jack changes......more

I didn't realize this was like, a young reader book, or whatever you want to call it. That's not why I rated it lower than I otherwise might have, because young readers should read about the Holocaust too. But I rated it a bit lower because I don't think Wikipedia existed when this came out but it b......more

Jack Mandelbaum is living the life of a carefree 12 year old boy in 1939 Poland when the Nazi occupation begins when he is separated from his family and sent to the Blechammer concentration camp. This is a great non-fiction YA telling of the horrors of the Nazi concentration camps during WW-II. It is......more

I would not say it was a good book, because I didn't feel good at all after reading it. But it surely was an eye-opening and heart clenching book. Reading this book made my worst nightmares look very tame. Story of a boy who was just 14 yrs old at the time of holocaust but had endured suffering for......more