Jack Mandelbaum (born April 10, 1937 Janek or Jack) is a

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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

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were the subject of Andrea Warren's

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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

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for grades six to eight, the

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's Robert F. Sibert Honor Book for Most Distinguished Informational Book for Children; and Outstanding Children's Book from the

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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 {{Holocaust-stub