Jack Mandelbaum (born April 10, 1937 Janek or Jack) is a
Holocaust survivor
Holocaust survivors are people who survived the Holocaust, defined as the persecution and attempted annihilation of the Jews by Nazi Germany and its allies before and during World War II in Europe and North Africa. There is no universally accep ...
from the
Free City of Danzig
The Free City of Danzig (german: Freie Stadt Danzig; pl, Wolne Miasto Gdańsk; csb, Wòlny Gard Gduńsk) was a city-state under the protection of the League of Nations between 1920 and 1939, consisting of the Baltic Sea port of Danzig (now Gda ...
. His experiences as a boy during
World War II
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...
were the subject of
Andrea Warren's
children's book
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Children's ...
of Mandelbaum surviving in a concentration camp separated from his family: ''Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps''. Mandelbaum was in many different concentration camps; he considered Gross-Rosen to be the worst of them.
Critical reception of the book
Awards for ''Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps'' included the 2004
William Allen White Children's Book Award
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for grades six to eight, the
American Library Association
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's Robert F. Sibert Honor Book for Most Distinguished Informational Book for Children; and Outstanding Children's Book from the
American Society of Journalists and Authors
The American Society of Journalists and Authors (ASJA) was founded in 1948 as the Society of Magazine Writers, and is the professional association of independent nonfiction writers in the United States.
History
The organization was established in ...
American Society of Journalists and Authors
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References
External links
Midwest Center for Holocaust Education website
Andrea Warren website
Midwest Center for Holocaust Education website: Jack Mandelbaum
2015 NPR interview of Mandelbaum
1927 births
Living people
Jewish concentration camp survivors
American people of Polish-Jewish descent
People from Leawood, Kansas
People from the Free City of Danzig
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