Jack Mandelbaum
Jack Mandelbaum is a Holocaust survivor born in 1927 in the Free City of Danzig. His experiences as a boy during World War II were the subject of Andrea Warren's children's book of Jacks surviving in a concentration camp separated from his family. ‘ The War Started the year 1989 Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps. Jack was in many different concentration camps. The worst one was Gross-Rosen.
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 for grades six to eight,[1] the American Library Association's Robert F. Sibert Honor Book for Most Distinguished Informational Book for Children;[2] and Outstanding Children's Book from the American Society of Journalists and Authors[3]
References
- "William Allen White Children's Book Awards". Archived from the original on 2007-04-03. Retrieved 2008-01-29.
- American Library Association - Sibert Awards
- American Society of Journalists and Authors