Setting
- Begins in 1939
- Setting: German/ Polish prison camps
- Krakow-
- Poland, (Ghetto)
- where Yanek and his family are living before they are taken by the Nazis
- Poland, (Ghetto)
- Plaszow- http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005301
- Yanek goes there to work (Uncle Moshe is there)
- Yanek meets Amon Goeth
- Yanek goes there to work (Uncle Moshe is there)
- Wielicka- http://www.wieliczka-saltmine.com/
- (salt mine)
- Everything is made up of salt
- Yanek recognizes the Judenrat that came to Krakow who is later murdered
- (salt mine)
- Trezbina- http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/communities/trzebinia/camp.asp
- Worst camp that they have been in
- Moving rocks
- Moving rocks
- Worst camp that they have been in
- Birkenau- http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/auschbirk.html
- Death camp
- Went into the gas chamber
- but it was a shower
- but it was a shower
- Yanek gets his prison tattoo
- Death camp
- Auschwitz- http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005189
- Death camp
- Yanek is on the train forever
- Fred dies
- gets hung at roll call
- gets hung at roll call
- Death camp
- Krakow-
- Sachsenhausen- http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005538
- Yanek breaks rocks
- chops wood
- Jews are forced to pull carts and sing
- Yanek breaks rocks
- Bergen-Belsen- http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005224
- Yanek is fed “good food”
- gets a week to rest before work
- gets a week to rest before work
- He meets “Moon Face”
- He races to get away from Moon Face
- Yanek is fed “good food”
- Buchenwald - http://www.holocaustresearchproject.org/othercamps/buchenwald.html
- Yanek meets “the Witch of Buchenwald” http://www.scrapbookpages.com/Buchenwald/Atrocities.html
- https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/ikoch.html
- There he sees the “Zoo” for the Nazi families
- Yanek meets “the Witch of Buchenwald” http://www.scrapbookpages.com/Buchenwald/Atrocities.html
- Gross- Rossen- http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005454
- Yanek is whipped over 40 times
- He hears “bombs”
- Yanek is whipped over 40 times
- Dachau- http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005214
- Last camp that Yanek is at
- Liberated by the United States Allied Forces
- Last camp that Yanek is at
- Yanek Gruener
- 12 at the beginning of the novel, and 18 at the end (liberation)
- Jewish
- He is sent to ten concentration camps
- 12 at the beginning of the novel, and 18 at the end (liberation)
- Uncle Moshe
- Yanek’s Uncle
- Goes to Plaszow,
- He dies there
- Shot by Amon Goeth
- He dies there
- Moshe hides money but then dies, without telling Yanek the hiding place.
- Yanek’s Uncle
- Amon Goeth http://www.auschwitz.dk/goeth.htm
- Nazi SS officer and Commandant at Plaszow camp
- Used a rifle to kill people as they walked through the camps
- Called “The Nazi Butcher”
- Nazi SS officer and Commandant at Plaszow camp
- Oskar and Mina Gruener
- Yanek’s parents
- mother hid money and stitched it into their sleeves
- mother hid money and stitched it into their sleeves
- Yanek’s parents
- Fred, Issac, Thomas
- Friends of Yanek
- Thomas and Issac hide under the floorboards
- Fred gets sick and cannot work, so he is killed.
- Friends of Yanek
- Mrs. Immerglick
- Yells at Yanek,
- She is assumed to be dead
- The tenants in her apartment complex take her things.
- Yells at Yanek,
- Mr. Tatarka
- Takes the chair from Mrs. Immerglick
- Yanek finds him dead
- Takes the chair from Mrs. Immerglick
- Yanek goes to Dachu
- and it is liberated
- and it is liberated
- He is reunited with his cousins
- and he goes to America
- Perseverance
- Yanek survives 6 years and 10 extermination camps
- He works extremely hard to survive
- Yanek survives 6 years and 10 extermination camps
- Man vs. Man
- Man vs. Society
- Man vs. Self
- Man vs. Nature