Jack Mandelbaum
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Jack Mandelbaum is a Holocaust survivor born in 1927 in the free state of Danzig. His experiences as a boy during World War Two was the subject of Andrea Warren's award-winning children's book Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps (ISBN 0688174973). Awards for the book included the American Library Association's Robert F. Sibert Honor Book for Most Distinguished Informational Book for Children; the 2004 White Book Award for grades six to eight, presented in honor of William Allen White; and Outstanding Children's Book from the American Society of Journalists and Authors.[1] [2]
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[edit] Background
Jack(Janek in Polish) was 12 when Hitler invaded Poland. Jack's father sent him, his mother and his brother 300 miles away in effort to escape the war. In the absence of his father, Jack assumed the role of looking after his family. At age 15, his mother and brother were taken to Nazi concentration camps. He was 18 the war ended and the Nazis abandoned the camps. He weighed 80lbs when he was liberated May 7, 1945 and was the sole survivor of his family. He decided to start over and build a new life in America.But he figured out that his second cousins, Arek and Robert Mandelbaum, and his uncle Sigmund Mandelbaum had also survived the camps.
[edit] Life in America
Mandelbaum lives Kansas City, Missouri where he co-founded the Midwest Center for Holocaust Education in 1993. He lectures at US schools.[3][4]
[edit] References
- ^ William Allen White Children's Book Awards (HTML). Retrieved on 2008-01-29.
- ^ Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps, andreawarren.com (HTML). Retrieved on 2008-01-29.
- ^ Olathe District Schools (HTML). Retrieved on 2008-01-29.
- ^ Our History, Midwest Center for Holocaust Education (HTML). Retrieved on 2008-01-29.
