One day a girl named Hanna came back from with her friends and does not want to go to passover because she does not want to remember. She pleaded not to go but they made her and she went. When she got there she sat at the table to celebrate and she loved the wine. Aunt Eva told her to open the door. When she opened the door she was at a farm and she had an aunt and a cousin named Rivka they told her that her parents died. She went to a guy named Shmuel's wedding and they got captured on a train and they were took to a camp. They have a hard time in the camp being told that if they are sick or can't work they will die. Later in the book Shmuel and others try to escape and they get caught when they do they get hanged. They are working and the guard starts picking people and when Rivka is picked because she was sick Hanna takes her spot. They get rushed into a chamber and they get gassed. When she came back to normal time she knew that her Aunt Eva was Rivka and they talked about a lot of things that happened and they were…
Wouldn’t life just be better if animals are treated fairly? Open your heart and mind to the suffering of animals. Haven’t you just had enough of animal cruelty? Well I have! Do you believe Animal cruelty should go in Room 101, well I do?…
I am reading the book "In My Hands" by Irena Gut Opdyke. This story is about a Polish girl who is constantly avoiding the Germans during the Nazi rein and she was a holocaust rescuer. This blog post is going to be mainly about some of the main characters in the story. This story is a Biography.…
“Suzy and Leah's Diary” One of the main characters in ¨Suzy and Leah¨ by Jane Yolen is Leah, a German-born Jew. Leah escaped the Nazis and is now in a refugee camp, without parents or siblings. She meets a girl named Suzy, but neither of them like each other. But eventually, Leah learns that new relationships are a good thing.…
Blima walked home from the bakery, as she did every other ordinary day, however, little did she know that her life was about to change right before her eyes as she was shoved into the back a car. The title of the book is The Story of Blima: A Holocaust Survivor. It is a true story covering the events of Blima’s life, written by her daughter, Shirley Russak Wachtel. This book tells the true story of Blima’s experiences when she was captured and sent to a concentration camp. The book includes Before the Storm, telling the life of Blima before she was captured; Darkness Falls, which tells her life as a prisoned Jew on the concentration camp; and Daylight, when her nightmare was finally over and she was liberated from the camp.…
Module 5 – Contemporary Realistic and Historical Fiction, Nonfiction and Biography. 41. DiCamillo, Kate. Because of Winn Dixie. Somerville, Massachusetts: Candlewick Press, 1991.…
When the word “JUDEN” had finally been plastered onto the window of their bakery, Blima knew that her life was about to change forever. This book is called The Story of Blima: A Holocaust Survivor. The Author of the story is Shirley Russak Wachtel. The book is a true story of Blima’s experiences as a young, Jewish girl in Germany. She was taken to a concentration camp. Before the Storm is all about Blima’s life before she was taken, Darkness Falls shares Blima’s story of the horrors she experienced at the concentration camps, and Daylight is when Blima is finally reconnected with some of her loved ones and her life begins to turn around for the better.…
The novel begins in 1941 with a twelve year old boy named Eliezer as the narrator. He begins the story by introduces the reader to Moche the Beadle. He was a man of all work at a synagogue. They were Jews of Sighet in a little town in Transylvania. Moche the Beadle was a poor man but nobody ever felt embarrassed by him or his presence. Mocha was very awkward physically but he always made people smile. Eliezer got to know him toward the end of the year when he studied in the Talmud, and when he ran to the synagogue to weep over the destruction of the Temple. Eliezer’s parents ran a shop and had four children; Hilda, Bea, Eliezer, and Tzipora. His parents were very strict and when he asked his father to find him a master to guide me in studying the cabbala he refused stating he was too young and wouldn’t understand it anyway. Although his father refused to find him a master he found one for himself, Mocha the Beadle. One day they expelled all the foreign Jews from Sighet and Moche became a foreigner. There was a war going on but Eliezer and the people where he lived were not aware of how serious it was. Though the Hungarian police made their appearances, as the weeks went by life always returned to normal and there wasn’t much thought about it. One day when Eliezer was heading to the synagogue he saw Mocha the Beadle. He told his story of his friends that had been taken charge by the Gestapo. Eliezer learned how Mocha escaped this mass murder but things had changed since Mocha started sharing these stories he so desperately wanted people to believe. Although Eliezer did not particularly believe his stories he still would sit with him in the evenings to try and understand his grief, although alls he felt was pity for him. Mocha tries to say he is warning everyone in hopes of them listening. Wiesel’s style is pretty straightforward, however it seems to help if you can brainstorm and use outside knowledge to understand the events going on to the…
I usually am reading a book that gushes over love or a creepy mystery novel, but this time I thought I would switch it up. I have always been really interested in World War two and the holocaust and that's why I picked up the book Hiding Edith, a true story by Kathy Kacer. I can't even come to image the fear that was planted in these children's heads and would scar them for the rest of their life. In 1933, the Nazi party, led by Adolf Hitler, came to power in Germany. Hitler was a cruel man who believed that Germans were superior to all over races, but especially Jews. I won't go into a huge detail about the Holocaust because I'm sure you've taken the class History! But anyways, the main character, Edith Schwalb was Jewish and was alive when Hitler slowly began to take over.…
The book is set up in Nazi Germany. The book is a story about Andreas a German soldier who has been posted to the eastern front and now on his way to Poland. He boards the train from Paris (France) to Przemyśl (Poland) via Lvov. While on his journey he feels he will eventually die after this journey because as Germany as already lost the war and he will become the victim of the war. During his journey he makes friends who were the various soldiers of the Nazi era as the train on which he as a troop train. He eats, drinks and shares his experiences with other soldiers and so do other soldiers share with him them and portrays the brutish life of a German soldier He has an idea on his journey that his death is going to come soon and he portrays that this soon cannot be quantifies as claims ‘soon’ to be evil . Eventually they…
In James Baldwin's second novel published, we meet a young American called David. He has left his home country to live in Paris. In the first meeting with this man, he stares out a window and thinks about his life. Even this early in the book we get an impression of everything not being in its right place. This is where emptiness lives.…
book, Liesel stole many books which would affect her life during World War II. She learns how…
One of the things that annoys me most are TV adverts. Now, I think that TV adverts are a bit like marmite, you either love them or you hate them. Personally I absolutely loathe them seeing as I find them really irritating as do most people. Whenever an advert comes on the TV I usually switch the channel to another programme that’s on until my programme comes back on. Why? Because TV adverts are just ridiculously annoying and so time consuming. One of the things that annoys me the most is when you have to change the channel because you don’t want to watch the advert but then you end up completely forgetting about your first programme causing you to miss it. I mean I believe that TV adverts are basically hated by everybody. To me there is nothing worse than watching your favourite programme and having to wait about 5 minutes during adverts to find out what happens next. For example, lets’ set the scene, you’re sitting at home looking for something good to watch. You find a horror film that looks quite good and that has just started. You start to really enjoy the movie, you’re dying to know what’s going to happen, you’re on the edge of your seat and the rising suspense is unbearable. You’re just getting to the best bit and all is about to be revealed when suddenly the darkness from your screen is replaced by bright light. The creepy tension building music has gone and now your ears are filled by with nice calming music as the John Lewis clearance advert begins. Then you have to sit there for the next five minutes having to…
1. Historical Information: A Room With a View takes place in the early 20th century in a British society. The story is mainly set in Florence, Italy and Surrey, England. It is about a young woman, Lucy Honeychurch, in the repressed culture of Edwardian era England.…
I wouldn’t say I’m a negative person, but I found three things to banish from this world surprisingly easy. Room 101 is designed to house the things that you hate but perhaps others love. I could have put a long list of things in it such as marmite and the many mouthfuls I have later regretted making with this substance involved. But nothing gets me more annoyed than the following three things, and by the end I hope you can agree with me.…