Prisoner B-3087

For the first time, a novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Alan Gratz (Refugee;War Games) will be available in paperback from bookstores and e-tailers! Gripping and powerful, based on the remarkable true story of Holocaust survivor Jack Gruener, Prisoner B-3087 is what launched Alan Gratz as one of today's foremost historical fiction authors. This paperback edition will include additional backmatter featuring a map, Q&A, and more. 10 concentration camps. 10 different places where you are starved, tortured, and worked mercilessly. It's something no one could imagine surviving. But it is what Yanek Gruener has to face. As a Jewish boy in 1930s Poland, Yanek is at the mercy of the Nazis who have taken over. Everything he has, and everyone he loves, have been snatched brutally from him. And then Yanek himself is taken prisoner -- his arm tattooed with the words PRISONER B-3087. He is forced from one nightmarish concentration camp to another, as World War II rages all around him. He encounters evil he could have never imagined, but also sees surprising glimpses of hope amid the horror. He just barely escapes death, only to confront it again seconds later. Can Yanek make it through the terror without losing his hope, his will -- and, most of all, his sense of who he really is inside? Based on an astonishing true story, and written in close collaboration with Holocaust survivor Jack Gruener, this modern classic from bestselling, beloved author Alan Gratz is a must-read, now more than ever.

Alan Gratz is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of several highly acclaimed books for young readers, including War Games, Heroes: A Novel of Pearl Harbor, Two Degrees, Ground Zero, Allies, Grenade, Refugee, Projekt 1065, Prisoner B-3087, Code of Honor, and Captain America: The Ghost Army, an original graphic novel. Alan lives with his family in the Pacific Northwest. Look for him online at alangratz.com.
Ruth Gruener was born Aurelia Gamser in 1930s Poland. Ruth and her parents survived the Holocaust by hiding in the homes of Gentile families. After World War II was over, Ruth and her family moved to the United States, where Ruth tried to start an ordinary teenage life in Brooklyn. Ruth married Jack Gruener, another Holocaust survivor, with whom she lived in Brooklyn until Jack's passing in 2017. They have two children and four grandchildren. Until her death in 2021, Ruth worked as a docent at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in downtown Manhattan and traveled all over the country to speak to schools about her and Jack's experiences in the Holocaust.
Jack Gruener's true life story was the inspiration for Prisoner B-3087. Born and raised in Poland, Jack survived the Holocaust as a young boy and eventually came to America. He married fellow Holocaust survivor Ruth Gruener, and they became authors and advocates. Jack passed away in 2017.