Yanek Gruener is a Jewish ten year old boy that lives with his parents, aunts, uncles, and cousins in Krakow, Poland. He went to school and had some friends and they lived in "flats". They had a curfew of nine p.m. and anyone who got caught outside after curfew was shot. One day, Jews were forced into his flat and everyone was crammed. The synagogue was set on fire by the Germans and if the Jews tried to put it out, they would be killed. One day, the Juderant, the Jewish police officer, demanded that 7,000 Jews would volunteer to go to a resettlement camp otherwise they would find Jews and force them to
go. Then later on, all Jews were demanded out of their flats otherwise they would find them and kill them so Yanek found a pigeon coop on the roof and told his parents that they could hide there. They cleaned it up and they lived in there where the Germans couldn't find them. While walking on the streets, they had to be careful of the Germans so they wouldn't have to go to the concentration camp but, Yanek's family got caught and killed and then, Yanek got caught himself and was forced to go to his first concentration camp or he was to be killed.
Yanek was taken to the Plaszow Concentration Camp where he found another survivor of his family, Uncle Moshe and got a job at the camp tailor shop. He told Yanek that he had no name, no family, and to not stand out if he wanted to survive. The camp conditions were terrible. They slept in crammed shelves in the barrack, were fed soup and bread, and were worked to death. They wore blue and gray striped prison uniforms and an armband with the Star of David on it and
Yanek was taken to the Plaszow Concentration Camp where he found another survivor of his family, Uncle Moshe and got a job at the camp tailor shop. He told Yanek that he had no name, no family, and to not stand out if he wanted to survive. The camp conditions were terrible. They slept in crammed shelves in the barrack, were fed soup and bread, and were worked to death. They wore blue and gray striped prison uniforms and an armband with the Star of David on it and
wooden shoes. If you ran, you were killed and so were other innocent prisoners. They had roll call every morning, and if they didn't come, the Nazis would come into their barrack and beat them until they got out of their bunk.The kapos, prisoners put in charge of the other prisoners by the Nazis, carried clubs and if any of the prisoners worked to slow, they would beat them. Amon Goeth, the leader of the camp, later killed Uncle Moshe because he was put to work breaking rocks and when he asked Moshe how much work was done, he was not happy about the answer he gave him and killed him. Yanek was transferred to ten different concentration camps where he was beaten, starved, all while he wondered if he was going to be one of the people that got killed for no reason that day.
When Yanek was being transferred to all of the different concentration camps, they either went in trains where people were killed of either starvation, suffocation, or other reasons, or they walked the death march. The death march was where all of the prisoners had to walk to their new concentration camp and if you were too slow, you got shot, and they walked for days with only little to eat. During Yanek's journey among the concentration camps, him and all of the other prisoners got a tattoo that read B for the Buchanwald Concentration Camp and their prisoner number and Yanek's read B-3087.
When Yanek was being transferred to all of the different concentration camps, they either went in trains where people were killed of either starvation, suffocation, or other reasons, or they walked the death march. The death march was where all of the prisoners had to walk to their new concentration camp and if you were too slow, you got shot, and they walked for days with only little to eat. During Yanek's journey among the concentration camps, him and all of the other prisoners got a tattoo that read B for the Buchanwald Concentration Camp and their prisoner number and Yanek's read B-3087.
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