Surviving Hitler

Surviving Hitler, by Andrea Warren is one of the best books I have ever read. I learned more in that book than I have in any other book. To like this book you need to be interested in World War II. It's the only war I'm actually interested in.

The main character in the book is Jack Mandelbaum. He was an ordinary person living in Gdynia (ga-DIN-ya), Poland when the Nazis took all the jews to Auschwitz. There, Jack helped jews do work for the Nazis. He knew an electrician who got him a paper that had a Nazi stamp on it to show he was a good worker and worked for the Nazis. Later, Nazis came in at five o' clock and took all of the jewish families and lined them up. Jack's mother and brother were taken to a death camp but Jack showed the Nazis his Nazi stamp and went to a working camp. After a few years in the camps the war ended. Jack was free and wanted to reunite with his family. To know the ending you'll have to read it yourself. I already told too much.

I would definately recommend this book. Normally I hate reading and never want to continue when I start a book, but when I started reading this one I didn't want to stop because I was so interested. Because there are so many facts in this book, it is by far the best non-fiction story I've ever read. If you like non-fiction books you have to read this, you will love it guaranteed. It shows how extraordinary things can happen to ordinary people. The description of the life in concentration camps is so detailed. It tells how the food was, how the beds were, how the camps were crawling with lice, the diseases, the people, the exhausting work, and how to survive. I have nothing bad to say about this book.

Written and Published by: Chris M.