Prisoner B-3087 Vocabulary.com Based on a true story, this novel tells the story of a boy who survived imprisonment in multiple Nazi concentration camps during World War II. Prisoner B-3087 Quotes Showing 1-15 of 15 “If I had known what the next six years of my life were going to be like, I would have eaten more. I wouldn't have complained about brushing my teeth, or taking a bath, or going to bed at eight o'clock every night. I would have played more. Prisoner B-3087 is a book I would unhesitatingly recommend to anyone that reads about the Holocaust, and as a book for older teens it is a powerful educational tool - Yanek's story is so unbelivable and yet Alan Gratz brings it alive on the page.
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Prisoner B-3087
Setting
Begins in 1939
Setting: German/ Polish prison camps
Krakow-
Poland, (Ghetto)
where Yanek and his family are living before they are taken by the Nazis
Plaszow- http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005301
Yanek goes there to work (Uncle Moshe is there)
Yanek meets Amon Goeth
Wielicka- http://www.wieliczka-saltmine.com/
(salt mine)
Everything is made up of salt
Yanek recognizes the Judenrat that came to Krakow who is later murdered
Trezbina- http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/communities/trzebinia/camp.asp
Worst camp that they have been in
Moving rocks
Birkenau- http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/auschbirk.html
Death camp
Went into the gas chamber
but it was a shower
Yanek gets his prison tattoo
Auschwitz- http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005189
Death camp
Yanek is on the train forever
Fred dies
gets hung at roll call
Sachsenhausen- http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005538
Yanek breaks rocks
chops wood
Jews are forced to pull carts and sing
Bergen-Belsen- http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005224
Yanek is fed “good food”
gets a week to rest before work
He meets “Moon Face”
He races to get away from Moon Face
Buchenwald - http://www.holocaustresearchproject.org/othercamps/buchenwald.html
Yanek meets “the Witch of Buchenwald” http://www.scrapbookpages.com/Buchenwald/Atrocities.html
There he sees the “Zoo” for the Nazi families
Gross- Rossen- http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005454
Yanek is whipped over 40 times
He hears “bombs”
Dachau- http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005214
Last camp that Yanek is at
Liberated by the United States Allied Forces
Main Characters
Yanek Gruener
12 at the beginning of the novel, and 18 at the end (liberation)
Jewish
He is sent to ten concentration camps
Uncle Moshe
Yanek’s Uncle
Goes to Plaszow,
He dies there
Shot by Amon Goeth
Moshe hides money but then dies, without telling Yanek the hiding place.
Prisoner B-3087 Quotes
Amon Goethhttp://www.auschwitz.dk/goeth.htm
Nazi SS officer and Commandant at Plaszow camp
Used a rifle to kill people as they walked through the camps
Called “The Nazi Butcher”
Oskar and Mina Gruener
Yanek’s parents
mother hid money and stitched it into their sleeves
Prisoner B 3087 Concentration Camps
Minor Characters
Fred, Issac, Thomas
Friends of Yanek
Thomas and Issac hide under the floorboards
Fred gets sick and cannot work, so he is killed.
Mrs. Immerglick
Yells at Yanek,
She is assumed to be dead
The tenants in her apartment complex take her things.
Mr. Tatarka
Takes the chair from Mrs. Immerglick
Yanek finds him dead
Prisoner B 3087 Chapter Summary
Resolution/conclusion
Yanek goes to Dachu
and it is liberated
He is reunited with his cousins
and he goes to America
Theme
Perseverance
Yanek survives 6 years and 10 extermination camps
He works extremely hard to survive
Conflicts
Prisoner B 3087 Sparknotes
Man vs. Man
Man vs. Society
Man vs. Self
Man vs. Nature