Based on the life of Jack Gruener, an eleven-year-old boy tries to survive the Nazi occupation of Krakow. Relates his incarceration in a succession of concentration camps, culminating in the final liberation of Dachau.
General Note
"Based on the true story by Ruth and Jack Gruener."
"While the story of Jack Gruener is true--and remarkable--this book is a work of fiction. As an author I've taken some liberties with time and events to paint a fuller and more representative picture of the Holocaust as a whole"--Afterword.
Includes a biographical afterword.