Yank Gruener Thesis

Prisoner B-3087, also known as Yanek Gruener is 10 years old boy when the Nazis invade his hometown of Krakow Poland and turn his town into a Jewish ghetto. Him and his family are forced to share a small apartment with three other families. Slowly the Jews rights and businesses are being stripped away from them and soon they are being starved and beaten. The Germans start searching homes and collecting people to take away. When Yanek turned 13 everything was stripped from him, his family, his possessions, all stripped away from him. Yanek goes through ten concentration camps, and a death marches where he is beaten, and starved, and worked mercilessly. He is determined to stay alive and make it till the end. In the first camp he works at the camps …show more content…
The next camp he went too was one of the worst camps, the Nazi’s job was to break them mentally and physically. They would get worked day till night sometimes fed, or not fed at all. In the next camp Yanek was faced with mere death as he was cattle cared for a long time, then shoved into a gas chamber. He stared to lose it, wanting to die and end all his pain so he yelled for the gas to kill him, but it didn’t. The nazi’s just gave them a shower. In the next camp prisoners from the previous camp were sent to this one after months of hard labor. Yanek gains a friend who also grew up where Yanek onced lived. Then the boy becomes ill and incapable of doing anything, so the officers beat him and hang the boy in front of everyone. Then Yanek had to face a death march, going from one concentration camp to another with 5000 other people and given half a loaf of bread to survive them the whole trip. Yanek arrived at his next camp after 3 days of walking, and Yanek started wishing for death to come to him because it would be a release, but instead of going straight to work they were all served soup and bread and were