Yanek's Traditon: A Narrative Fiction

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I looked out through the cracks of the crawl space. Goeth was coming closer, all shining black leather boots and crisp black uniform. One of his dogs lifted its ears and looked right at me. I pulled back, away from the wall. “We’re trapped. We have to get out of here.” I was almost choking on my own fear. “And fo where?” Thomas hissed. “ If we leave, they’ll find us in the barrack!” “ I don’t care. We can’t be caught here.” I pushed my way up and out of the crawl space. I gasped, filling my lungs. I had to move quickly. My heart was thumping, but it made me feel alive, and feeling alive, and feeling alive made me want to stay alive.
The setting took place in Poland in 1930. Ten different concentration camps where you are starved, tortured and worked mercilessly. It’s something no one could imagine surviving. A boy with a tattoo marked on his arm B-3087 is forced from one nightmarish concentrator camp to another, as World War II rages all around him. His name is Yanek Gruener.
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Ingergticks, and Mr. Tatarka. These are the Characters in the book Prisoner B-3087.
As a Jewish boy in 1930s Poland, Yanek is at the mercy of the Nazis who have taken over. Everything he has, and everyone he loves, have been snatched brutally from him. Then, Yanek himself is taken prisoner - his arm tattooed with the words PRISONER B-3087. He has been taken as a prisoner to several concentration camps. He has been beaten, starved, tortured, and

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