Surviving Hitler: A Boy In The Nazi Death Camps

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Summary: As An Adult Reading This Book...
Review: I found this book to be a good starting place for a middle school aged student to begin learning of the Holocaust. I think this is a very difficult subject for young kids to even grasp but they do need to start somewhere after they have read the assigned 'Diary Of Anne Frank' in school.

I bought this book for my 14 year old to read as his class is studying WWII this semester and he has an interest in learning more outside of what is being discussed in class.

I am buying another copy of this book to be donated to our middle school library.

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Summary: Great- from a teacher's view point
Review: I teach 4th grade and believe in being honest with my kids. In order to understand the world they live in, they need to understand past events. History has a way of repeating itself. My kids were very interested in the this aspect of WWII after reading Number the Stars. This biography is a neat tie-in to the historical fictional piece.

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Summary: wonderful and disturbing book
Review: It's very hard for me to read anything about the Holocaust but I needed to make sure this book was appropriate for my young daughter. I try to keep her protected from the worlds horrors as much as possible since she's only 10 but she wanted to read this book. It is entirely appropriate for her age and I'm glad she'll know about the atrocities that happened so long ago and I hope as she grows up she'll fight for human rights.

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Summary: Surving Hitler, "A Boy In a Nazi Death Camp"
Review: Serving Hitler, by Andrea Waren. The story took place during WWII, in a Nazi concentration camp for Jews. This a true story about a named Jack Mandelbaum.
Jack was twelve when the Nazis put his family in a Ghetto. Where he worked to support his family, because they were separated from his father. The Nazis did not like Jews and blamed them for the loss of WWI. About a year or two later Jacks family was put into a concentration camp. There were two lines for two different camps... but his family didn't know that Jack was put into a different line then his mother and brother. Jack was put into a line for a work camp, and his family went to a death camp.
Jack was alone in a whole new world to him, he didn't know anyone, and he was probly the youngest boy there. A prisoner he befriended helped Jack get through the camp for a while, until Jack got transferred to another camp; told jack to of the camp as a game. The rules were: avoid getting beat, stay clean to avoid getting lice, and stay healthy, so you can go home to your family, and beat Hitler at his own game.
After a while Jack was transferred to a new camp. He meat a boy about his age named Monike. Jack and Monike became best friends. When they both thought they were going to die of starvation a miracle happened. The cooks became very sick and Jack, and Monike were the Luckey souls who got to work with all that food. Jack and Monike new that if they stayed the cooks for a while they might have a chance of living.
After about a year the whole camp was transferred again, and Jack and Monike were not the cooks anymore. In this camp you were if you got to eat once a day. Jack and Monike were separated. Jack was only in this camp about six weeks, and one night the Nazis locked all the barracks. The Nazis left the camp and took all the food and left the Jews for dead. But they knocked down the doors and were free.
Jack was a free man and found his good friend Monike, but sad fully did not have a family to come to. Jack had own Hitler's game but still his family lost. After a while after he searched for his family Jack gave up and moved the United States and started his own family. Jack died in 1998.

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Summary: Holocaust Surviving
Review: Surviving Hitler is a wonderful survival story depicting courage, and friendship in a great, breath stopping story about a boy in a Nazi death camp. Jack's faith, courage, and friendship with Moniek help him get through the hard time in his life and survive Hitler. This story is interesting to me because Jack is about my age and sometimes what happens to him can relate to life now. The story taught me about the Holocaust in a way that I could learn it better than usual. Jack can be an idol for people who are going through very hard times in their lives to show them that they can survive it. This book is so good that it is now one of my favorite books of all.

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Summary: True Holocaust Story
Review: Surviving Hitler is one of the best Holocaust books I have read. I love to read about it and this book makes you feel as if you are acually there with him in the death camps. I like the saying,"This is all a game.You must win to live."It is both dramatic as well as a little bit scary.I hope that people will read this book and realize what life was like for the Jews in concentration camps.This is clearly the best non-fiction book I've read.

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Summary: A boy at camp
Review: Surviving Hitler was about a boy named Jack who was jewish. Jack lived with his mom,sister,brother, and dad. Jack's dad heard that the nazi's were coming for the jews. Jack's dad sent his family to live with his father in a small village. Jack's dad did not go because he did not have enough money. Before Jack and his family left Jacks sister went to stay with her aunt so she could help her aunt with the baby she just had. Jack and his family finally arrive at there grandfathers house. They stay there for a while then the Nazi's come and put all the jews in little houses with more than one family. Jacks father still has not came back to them. One night in the middle of the night Nazi's came and made the jews immediately leave. Jack and his family waited in line and when it was there turn jack showed the soldier that he had a nazi work stamp. Jack thought it would get his whole family through , but it only got him through. Jack was seperated from his family. Jack was moved to several different camps for his good labor. Then he met a really good friend and they were moved to be camp cooks. Jack would have died a couple of days later if he had not worked in the kitchen. You will have to read the book to see if Jack survives or if he will be reunited with his family.

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Summary: A boy in the Nazi Death Camps
Review: Surviving Hitler, by Andrea Warren, is a story about a boy named Jack Mandelbaum. He is a Jewish boy and lives during the time of WWII. He is separated from his family and lives in a concentration camp. He has to survive in them. He is very determined to survive in the camps because he wants to meet with his family after the war.
During his time in the camps he meets a man named Aaron who gives him vital information about the camps. He also tells him that if he cannot work, the Nazis will kill him. He tells him about the ovens. What I think is the most important rule that Aaron told Jack was that this was just a game that Hitler was playing. Jack was in that game. If Jack lost, he would die, but if Jack won, he would survive the Nazi death camps and live after the war was over.
I recommend this book because it had a lot of good description, great quotes, and a very interesting and unpredictable plot. I would rate this book a 4 1/2 out of 5 and not a 5 out of 5 because it didn't give many details about his life after the war or about the other characters lives after the war. This was an all around good book that I enjoyed very much.

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Summary: surviving hitler
Review: Surviving Hitler

The book Surviving Hitler is about a boy named jack who was living a fine life until the Holocaust. He lived life like a normal human being. He swam, went to school, and even got into some trouble. When Hitler started killing the Jews jacks father sent him his sister his brother and his mother to their grandfathers house, They moved to a small town. They had lived their for a week until they got a phone call from their cousin they wanted jacks sister to go and help her with their baby. So jacks sister went and lived with their cousin. Their father was still at home working and was suppose to be their in about a month. They got four letters from him saying he was all right. On the fifth letter he didn't Wright it from home he wrote it from a concentration camp. Jack and his family were so sad.
Jack helped people with jobs and got a card that said he was a worker and he had a job. A week later they were in a concentration camp. Jack and his mom and brother held hands tightly. Jack made a mistake by showing the officer the card. He went one way and his mom and brother went the other way. Jack worked for a year strait in one camp. He met some guy and taught jack how to stay clean and be free of lice. Every morning jack would take a shower and wash his uniform at the same time.
He got moved to another camp and worked there for a year. There he could not take a shower. At this camp he became a carpenter and got fed double of what every one else got plus two muffins. He would give the muffins to the prisoners and the guards. At this camp he became very sick and almost died. The guard that he gives the muffins to saves him by having the doctor give him medicine. When the war was over jack and his friend Moniek were the first to leave. The other people were so shocked they were free they stayed their for a couple of minutes. Jack went and looked for his parents. He didn't find them but he hoped they were still alive. If they were not alive he knew his brother and his mom died together. Jack lived for a while with Moniek. They were best friends and were winners of Hitler's game.

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Summary: Suriving in The Camps with Alot of Courage
Review: The boy in this book was just an ordinary Polish Boy until 1939
when the war started. He was a few of the camp in World War 2.
He surived and started a new life in America after a few years.