Surviving Hitler by Andrea Warren

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Surviving Hitler by Andrea Warren

• Jacks Timeline

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• August 1939
• Mother, Jack, Jakob, and Jadzia go to live with
  Grandfather Mandelbaum
• September 1, 1939
• Hitler invades Poland
• November, 1939
• Ordered to wear the Star of David
• Jews could no longer attend school
• December, 1939 Jack, his mother and Jakob
  went to live with mamas brother

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• January, 1940
• Jews given a curfew
• Jews forbidden to go to library or public
  events
• Nazis used forced labor crews Jack was paid
  by wealthier Jews who did not want to work
• April, 1940 Jack turned 13
• April, 1941 Jack turned 14
• Began working for a Catholic electrician
• December, 1941
• Jack was living in a restricted area called a
  ghetto
• Pearl Harbor was attacked on Dec. 7, 1941

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• June 14, 1942 Feb. 1943
• Jack was sent to Blechhammer concentration camp
  in Germany his hair was shaved, chemical
  disinfectant put over his body to prevent lice
  but still gets them, given the 16013 now 15
  years old
• meets Aaron who gives Jack extra food when he
  can
• he learned to live by the rules and play the
  game to survive
• Jack worked doing hard physical labor
• given only thin soup and sawdust bread
• February, 1943
• Jack was moved to a new camp
• Jack survived through typhus

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• Early 1943
• Jack was moved two more times
• Gross-Rosen was worst camp Jack was in
• Jack worked variety of jobs in camp
• Mid 1943
• Jack survived dysentery and narrowly escaped
  getting a shot that would have killed him
• Fall 1943
• Jack was transferred again
• Jack met Moniek

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• May, 1944
• Hitler ordered all Hungarian Jews to camps
• Jack is now 17
• Early 1945
• worst winter of war
• less food
• Jack afraid he would starve to death
• Jack and Moniek became cooks in camp able to
  get extra food
• prisoners issued monthly meal tickets
• prisoners killed a starving horse for
  themselves and guards

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• prisoners evacuated from Jacks camp and led on
  death march to Doernhau Camp
• Moniek was beaten up and separated from Jack
• allowed only one cup of soup per day
• 5 or 6 weeks after arriving, Jack and others
  were free
• Jack found Moniek

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• May, 1945-June, 1946
• May 7, 1945 liberation day for Jack
• Jack and Moniek helped free other prisoners
• stayed in abandoned house in town able to
  have real food, bathe, and get clean clothes
• hitched a ride to Frankfurt and went to
  displaced persons camp
• Jack weighed only 80 pounds and had to have 7
  teeth pulled

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• Moniek reunited with 2 brothers and left
  Frankfurt
• Jack moved into a private home
• Found Arek Mandelbaum, a 2nd cousin, Uncle
  Sigmund, and Aunt Hinda
• Uncle Sigmund had been in Auschwitz and
  transferred to Stutthoff where he learned Jacks
  father was dead
• Jack returned to Poland and Germanys American
  sector to get food
• found his home in Gydnia was occupied by
  strangers
• Jacks grandfather and his wife, Jadzia, his
  aunt and uncle, Mama, and Jakob were all dead