People of the Book “An Insect’s Wing: Sarajevo, 1940” Summary Geraldine Brooks’ book, People of the Book, conveys the story of the Sarajevo Haggadah. In the chapter “An Insect’s Wing: Sarajevo 1940,” Lola, a young Jewish girl, experiences running away from the German soldiers and coming back to Sarajevo. This chapter, also shares some details of how the famed Sarajevo Haggadah was saved from the World War II. This chapter shares the journey of Lola and the unpleasant events she went through to survive the invasion of the Nazis. Lola was separated from her family after a large group of Nazis arrived in Sarajevo. The chapter “An Insect’s Wing: Sarajevo, 1940,” claims that “On April 16, the Germans marched into Sarajevo and for the next two …show more content…
Lola was on the mission to find her mother, sister, and aunt without being captured by the German soldiers. Lola …show more content…
After a couple days staying there, things in the sanctuary began to fall apart when one of the guys from the odred, named Oskar, goes to a German camp to get a gun and then leaves, but doesn’t realize that he had trailed them back to the place where the rest of the odred was staying. Oskar goes to get a gun from the German camp because he wanted a gun like Isak, Maks, and Branko, the commander of the odred. The odred and Lola flee the place before the German army got to their headquarters. In the book it states that, “For seven months, Lola’s odred lived on the move, rarely spending more than one night or two in one campsite, carrying out demolitions of railway tracks or small bridges” (Brooks 71). As the temperature got lower the nights were freezing cold, Isak and Ina were not able to go any further. One night he had told Lola that he was not going to be able to continue, he had an injured foot and Ina was dying. Isak had told Lola “The ice–there was a thin place. My foot went through. It got wet and now it’s frozen” (Brooks 75). Ina was barely breathing, it was slow and irregular, and Isak foot had frostbite and nothing. After their discussion, he stood up and carried his little sister and walked toward the thin ice of the river and stood there until it
They stayed here during the winter while Alicia still searched for food, in the process, making many friends. News came one day that the Germans were beginning to fall back from the Russian fronts and Germany’s grip on the Jews in Poland was weakening. This news made Alicia and her mother move away from the old man who helped them.
Geraldine Brooks the author of People of the Book conveys the story of Sarajevo Haggadah. In the chapter “An Insect’s Wings,” Lola, a young Jewish girl, experiences running away from Nazis and coming back to Sarajevo. In this chapter, it also shares some details of how the famed Sarajevo Haggadah was saved from WWII. This chapter shares the journey of Lola and all the unpleasant events she went through.
The Silber Medal winning biography, “Surviving Hitler," written by Andrea Warren paints picture of life for teenagers during the Holocaust, mainly by telling the story of Jack Mandelbaum. Avoiding the use of historical analysis, Warren, along with Mandelbaum’s experiences, explains how Jack, along with a few other Jewish and non-Jewish people survived.
She learns to become more fearless while working with them to help the Jewish. Jesper and Stefen volunteer to stay behind to help their family and friends escape. They try to convince Lisa to stay behind with them because they do not have enough people, and because Lisa has a lot of experience with guns. Lisa was debating at first, saying “ I don’t know if I should stay. This is too dangerous, I’m not as good as Susanne with guns. You know that. I think all of us should just go on the boat. If the German soldiers find us, they will kill all of us” (90). After a while Lisa says that she will stay. Lisa, Jesper and Stefan stay behind to help all the Jewish get on the boat safely and in the course of 3 days Lisa has killed a total of 3 German soldiers. This is significant because throughout these tasks, Lisa and her mentors have successfully transferred the Jewish to the boats safely without being caught by the Nazis. Every Jewish people has escaped Denmark without being hurt. After this mission, Lisa learns to become fearless and now killing a person to her is very simple, unlike before, she could not even hold a gun properly. To conclude, with Lisa’s fearlessness, she is able to help the Jewish find their
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A Lucky Child by Thomas Buergenthal is a memoir about his time as a Jewish child in multiple ghettos and death camps in and around Germany during World War II. The author shares about his reunions with family and acquaintances from the war in the years between then and now. Buergenthal wished to share his Holocaust story for a number of reasons: to prevent himself from just being another number, to contribute to history, to show the power and necessity of forgiveness, the will to not give up, and to question how people change in war allowing them to do unspeakable things. The memoir is not a cry for private attention, but a call to break the cycle of hatred and violence to end mass crimes.
“Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed…“(Wiesel 32) Livia-Bitton Jackson wrote a novel based on her personal experience, I Have Lived a Thousand Years. Elli was a Holocaust victim and her only companion was her mother. Together they fought for hunger, mistreatment and more. By examining the themes carefully, the audience could comprehend how the author had a purpose when she wrote this novel. In addition, by seeing each theme, the audience could see what the author was attacking, and why. By illustrating a sense of the plight of millions of Holocaust victims, Livia-Bitton Jackson explores the powerful themes of one’s will to survive, faith, and racism.
They all had to live in the Warsaw ghetto (“Children’s Diaries”). Halina, another child survivor, tells us what happened to her while in hiding. Halina and her family went into hiding with a friend of her mother in a basement (“Peabody”).... ... middle of paper ...
This engaging book takes the reader to the concentration camps set in the Bosnian war era which was the most horrific ‘genocide’ since the Holocaust. It provides the reader an insight into what it is to survive endless nights full of violence, both mental and physical and then to overcome those fear. This book is the account of Esad Boskailo, a Bosnian doctor who survived six concentration camps and went onto become a qualified psychiatrist in USA, written by Julia Lieblich. The book, a collaborative project of Esad Boskailo and human rights journalist Julia
Sophie was a Polish women and a survivor of Auschwitz, a concentration camp established in Germany during the Holocaust in the early 1940s. In the novel we learn about her through her telling of her experiences, for instance, the murder of her husband and her father. We also come to learn of the dreadful decision she was faced with upon entering the concentration camp, where she was instructed to choose which one of her two children would be allowed to live. She chose her son. Later we learn of her short lived experience as a stenographer for a man by the name of Rudolph Hoss, the Commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp. During her time there, Sophie attempted to seduce Hoss in an attempt to have her son transferred to the Lebensborn program so that he may have been raised as a German child. Sophie's attempt was unsuccessful and she was returned back to t...
This book left me with a deeper sense of the horrors experienced by the Polish people, especially the Jews and the gypsies, at the hands of the Germans, while illustrating the combination of hope and incredible resilience that kept them going.
Hermanns, William. The Holocaust: From a Survivor of Verdun, New York, NY, Harper and Row
There were two types of hidden children: the children that didn’t look like the stereotypical Jew, and were hidden in plain sight, in an orphanage or maybe with a family who pretended the child was an orphaned family member. Then there were the ones that were truly hidden, such as in an abandoned building, a hidden room, or- as Lola was- in a hole dug beneath a cellar in a farmhouse on the edge of town. Either way, the children had to stay silent. While Lola Rein writes of her time in hiding she says, “But what kind of life is this? Children are supposed to be noisy, not silent…they are supposed to be part of the world, not live like they don’t exist” (Rein Kaufne). Lola also tells of how, during her year of hiding, she hardly spoke.
Upon entering the barbed-wire fenced confines of a ghetto, all hope was lost; it was a nightmare come true for the Jews. Promised with deceit as they were taken from their homes and carted away to hell on earth, the Jews faced great suffering as they tried in vain to survive. Death was in every nook and cranny, waiting for the next poor fallen soul. Many wished to be anywhere else, but this horrid and godforsaken place.