Prisoner B-3087 by Alan Gratz

Question 1

plot summary

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The Nazis killed more than one million Jewish children and teenagers; Jack (Yanek) Gruener, who was 10 when Krakow, Poland, fell, was a rare survivor. “Survive,” however, hardly seems adequate to describe what unfolds in these pages. Having lost his parents and close relatives just as he entered adolescence (Yanek has a secret bar mitzvah in a basement of the Krakow ghetto), the boy is totally alone as his life becomes a roll-call of nightmares: Trzebinia, Bir-kenau (where his arm is tattooed with the number in the book’s title), Auschwitz, Sachsenhausen, Bergen-Belsen, Buchenwald, Gross-Rosen. Yanek is finally liberated at age 16, when American soldiers arrive at Dachau. Gratz (Fantasy Baseball) has fictionalized some aspects of Gruener’s life to “paint a fuller and more representative picture of the Holocaust as a whole,”

Question 2

This book was based on the real life events of Jack Gruener.

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Question 3

In this book the main character goes to seven different concentration camps

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Question 4

Based on a true story, this book is the account of a Jewish boy in 1930s Poland.

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Question 5

The setting of this book is a concentration camp during WWII.

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Question 6

The main character of this book was born in Krakow, Poland.

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Question 7

In this book, Amon Goeth enjoyed sitting in the prison yard with a good and shooting random prisoners. He wouldn’t have his breakfast until he had killed at least one.

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