Jack Mandelbaum

Jack Mandelbaum (born April 10, 1937 Janek or Jack)[1] is a Holocaust survivor from the Free City of Danzig. His experiences as a boy during World War II were the subject of Andrea Warren'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
  1. "Jack Mandelbaum Testimony Transcript" (PDF). Midwest Center for Holocaust Education.
  2. "William Allen White Children's Book Awards". Archived from the original on 2007-04-03. Retrieved 2008-01-29.
  3. American Library Association - Sibert Awards
  4. American Society of Journalists and Authors


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