Jack Mandelbaum
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Jack Mandelbaum (born April 10, 1927 as Janek Mandelbaum)[1] is a Holocaust survivor from the Free City of Danzig. His experiences as a boy during World War II were the subject of 's children's book of Mandelbaum surviving in a concentration camp separated from his family: Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps. Mandelbaum was in many different concentration camps; he considered Gross-Rosen to be the worst of them.
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,[2] the American Library Association's Robert F. Sibert Honor Book for Most Distinguished Informational Book for Children;[3] and Outstanding Children's Book from the American Society of Journalists and Authors[4]
References[]
- ^ "Jack Mandelbaum Testimony Transcript" (PDF). Midwest Center for Holocaust Education.
- ^ "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
External links[]
- 1927 births
- Living people
- Jewish concentration camp survivors
- American people of Polish-Jewish descent
- People from Leawood, Kansas
- People from the Free City of Danzig