Prisoner B-3807

Part 1: “Krakow, Poland 1939-1942”

Chapter 1

1. How old is Yanek Gruener in the beginning of the book?

2. What is the name of Yanek’s uncle?

3. What does Yanek say his family would have done if they had known what was about to happen?

Chapter 2

4. What group of soldiers takes over Krakow?

5. What must the Jewish residents use to obtain food instead of money?

6. What places is Janek disheartened that he is no longer allowed to go?

7. What must the Jewish residents wear?

Chapter 3

8. What do the Nazis build that prevents the Jews from leaving Krakow?

9. Why do Yanek’s parents force him to stay inside?

Chapter 4

10. Where do Yanek and his father sneak off to at night?

11. Why is Abraham allowed to keep his business open?

12. Who does Yanek’s father plan on secretly selling bread to?

Chapter 5

13. What is a “Judenrat?”

14. What does Yanek discover on the roof? What does he tell his family they should use it for?

Chapter 6

15. According to the Judenrat, how many Jewish residents have the Nazis requested to take away?

16. What does Yanek’s father sneak him out of the house to celebrate?

Chapter 7

17. How many Jewish residents do the Nazi soldiers collect by force?

18. Where does Yanek watch from as he sees people getting shot in the street?

Chapter 8

19. What do the Jewish people beleive will happen to the people who were taken during the “deportation?”

20. What happens to Yanek’s parents?

Part 2: “Plaszów Concentration Camp 1942-1943”

Chapter 9

21. What is Yanek working as in Krakow when the Nazis kidnap him? Where do they send him?

22. Which relative does Yanek see at the camp?

23. What happens to the person standing next to Yanek during roll call?

Chapter 10

24. What is the name of the Nazi guard who enjoys murdering the prisoners for fun?

25. Who has to trade their daily rations to a kapo?

26. What is Yanek’s new job? What does he have to clean out?

27. Where does Yanek find his parents’ old belongings?

28. What does Yanek find out his mother has sewn into their jackets?

Chapter 11

29. What does Uncle Moshe do with the money Yanek gives him?

30. Who murders Uncle Moshe?

Chapter 12

31. Where does Yanek hide in order to rest his body and avoid work?

32. Why does Yanek decide to “never hide under the floorboards again?”

Chapter 13

33. Where is Yanek taken away to work? How does this place make Yanek feel?

34. Why is the man murdered by the prisoners?

Chapter 14

35. What does Yanek realize about the Nazis after he is forced to carry heavy rocks from one end of a field to another?

36. Why does Yanek realize none of the prisoners fight back?