Holocaust Survivor: Mike Jacobs' Triumph over Tragedy

When the tattooing was over, the SS man looked at me and said, “Do you know what this number is all about?”
“No, sir,” I answered.

“Now you are not human anymore. You are a number; and you better remember this number; because that’s what you will be called from now on.”

They put the same number on my shirt, and so I became B4990. But in my mind, I was still a free person.

In this penetrating memoir, we witness the Holocaust through the eyes of mike Jacobs (then Mendel Jakubowicz), who was a teenager during World War II. With great clarity, Jacobs recounts five years of confinement in ghettos and concentration camps.

A story told without hatred or bitterness, Holocaust Survivor teaches us that when we recognize that freedom comes from within, we are never completely powerless.