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Gr 4–6—When Werner Reich, a young boy on his own, arrived at Auschwitz concentration camp, he slept at the top of a wooden three-tiered bunk (no mattress, no bedclothes). He stood in a line of men to be counted or did push-ups or meaningless back-breaking labor for endless hours each day and received a daily ration of "watery soup with two small potato pieces and a slice of bread made from flour and sawdust." Levin, Werner's bunkmate and only friend in the camp, became a father figu...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

In a fictionalization of a true story, young Auschwitz inmate Werner is befriended and sustained by his bunkmate Herr Levin, a magician. Dar...Log In or Sign Up to Read More