Survivinghitler

by Andrea Warren

Setting Gdynia, Poland and all over Germany to different concentration camps. Characters Jack Mandelbaum Summary of the story Jack and his family are jews living in Gdynia, Poland during the time that Hitler is coming into power. His brother jakob, and mama, with the exception of his father who stayed behind to tend to there business, all move to his fathers dad's house three hundred miles away. The towns population was mostly jews. Within two weeks of moving into there grandfathers home the Nazi's invaded. January, a month after moving to the grandfathers, Nazi's demanded that 300 adults every day to assist with work projects. Since Jack was 12, he was not on the list, however men paid him to go and do their jobs. He gave the money he earned to his family. He supported his mother and brother for two years. An electrion stole a letter with a Nazi stamp to say that he worked for the Nazi's. June 1941, half of Jack's village were in restrictive living areas-Ghettos. They begin to get deported the next day, Jack shows the Nazi letter and he gets seporated from his mother and brother. Now 15, he taken to Blechhammer concentration camp, across the border in Germany. Kapo- prisner in charge of the hundred men in his barracks.