Prisoner B-3087 Book Report

“Hold still you little brat.” I looked up to see who had said that, but before I even got a glimpse of anyone, I felt an instant pain in my neck that trickled down my spine which then caused me to collapse. Sadly, while I laid there on the street, barely even able to think, I watched my mother and father be drug off unconscious, then loaded into a military truck that only left behind smoke and tire tracks. “Momma! don’t leave me!.” There was no use...I was helpless, I felt dead...like I had no soul. These twisted thoughts made me limp, it could be because I knew it was all over, my family, my life, my friends or maybe the one thing I missed since it was gone, “my world.” Prisoner B-3087 takes place in different concentration camps during the era of the Holocaust, It tells the story of one boy named Yanek, and his family’s attempt to survive the unearthly like conditions of concentration camps. But Yanek’s family is separated, and he now has to “survive at any

A lot of people tend to take life for granted, but for the victims of tragedies such as the Holocaust, staring death in the face makes them realize how important everyday alive is. In Prisoner B-3087, the prisoners called some other prisoners “musselmen” those were the people who had given up the will to live, and died shortly after. That made me realize how important life is. If Yanek hadn’t held so tightly to his parents’ words and kept his will to survive strong, there were many times that I’m sure he would have died, like when he had snuck out to the bakery for bread to feed his family, and only Nazi soldiers were to be on the street. To survive something designed to kill you is the ultimate triumph, to over come something created to destroy you in such a long, agonizing manner. It’s really such a shame that so many people, who never experience anything as horrible as the Holocaust, don’t see that everyday that they are alive is a