Jack Mandelbaum

Jack Mandelbaum is a Holocaust survivor born in 1927 in the free state of Danzig. His experiences as a boy during World War Two was the subject of Andrea Warren's award-winning children's book "Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps" (ISBN 0688174973). Awards for the book included the American Library Association's Robert F. Sibert Honor Book for Most Distinguished Informational Book for Children; the 2004 White Book Award for grades six to eight, presented in honor of William Allen White; and Outstanding Children's Book from the American Society of Journalists and Authors. [cite web |url=http://waw.emporia.edu/winners/winner03-04.htm |title=William Allen White Children's Book Awards |accessdate=2008-01-29 |format=HTML |work= ] [cite web |url=http://andreawarren.com/surviving.html |title="Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps," andreawarren.com |accessdate=2008-01-29 |format=HTML |work= ]

Background

Jack(Janek in Polish) was 12 when Hitler invaded Poland. Jack's father sent him, his mother and his brother 300 miles away in effort to escape the war. In the absence of his father, Jack assumed the role of looking after his family. At age 15, his mother and brother were taken to Nazi concentration camps. He was 18 the war ended and the Nazis abandoned the camps. He weighed 80lbs when he was liberated May 7, 1945 and was the sole survivor of his family. He decided to start over and build a new life in America.But he figured out that his second cousins, Arek and Robert Mandelbaum, and his uncle Sigmund Mandelbaum had also survived the camps.

Life in America

References

External links

* [http://mchekc.org/survivortestimonies.htm Midwest Center for Holocaust Education Web site]

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