Setting

The setting of this book takes place in Krakow,Poland a city in Poland, throughout this book Yanek moves all throughout Germany and Poland. The first concentration camp Yanek went to is Plazow, the camps commandant Amon Goeth shot people from his deck if they were sleeping or not working. After about a month or so Yanek is moved to the salt mines and has to witness a guys brains all over the wall. He gets to see the famous the salt statues that are now famous today, he has to crawl through the dirty wet salt mines. He moves to many other concentration camps throughout Poland and Germany. He goes to 10 other concentration camps and survives all of them. In the beginning he has to live in a chicken coupe on top of the roof of his apartment.