[1] His experiences as a boy during World War II were the subject of Andrea Warren's children's book of Mandelbaum surviving in a concentration camp and being separated from his family.
This book Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps .
talks about how Mandelbaum was in many different concentration camps;and how he considered Gross-Rosen to be the worst of them.
Mandelbaum later met Moniek, a soon to be life long friend, and with him survived the concentration camps and then they later helped other Jewish men and women escape.
[2] Awards for Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps included the 2004 William Allen White Children's Book Award for grades six to eight,[3] the American Library Association's Robert F. Sibert Honor Book for Most Distinguished Informational Book for Children;[4] and Outstanding Children's Book from the American Society of Journalists and Authors[5]