Based on the astonishing true story of Ruth and Jack Gruener, this gripping novel follows a young Jewish boy from Poland who is forced from one nightmarish concentration camp to another, as World War II rages all around him.
Can Yanek make it through the terror without losing his hope, his will -- and, most of all, his sense of who he really is inside? Based on an astonishing true story..
He just barely escapes death, only to confront it again seconds later.
He encounters evil he could have never imagined, but also sees surprising glimpses of hope amid the horror.
He is forced from one nightmarish concentration camp to another, as World War II rages all around him.
And then Yanek himself is taken Prisoner -- his arm tattooed with the words Prisoner B-3087.
Everything he has, and everyone he loves, have been snatched brutally from him.
As a Jewish boy in 1930s Poland, Yanek is at the mercy of the Nazis who have taken over.
But it is what Yanek Gruener has to face.
It\'s something no one could imagine surviving. 10 different places where you are starved, tortured, and worked mercilessly. 10 concentration camps.
At any cost.
Survive.
Based on the astonishing true story of Ruth and Jack Gruener, this gripping novel follows a young Jewish boy from Poland who is forced from one nightmarish concentration camp to another, as World War II rages all around him