How The Holocaust Affects Jews In Milkweed

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Alexander Burke Misses Kirkland English 9 5/28/2024 Essay tidal Imagine being forced away from your home pushed into small tight areas, all because of your religious beliefs. This is what happened to millions of Jews during the hollokast, a sad bart of historical events. The persuasion of Jews by the hands of Nazis led to the use of ghosts and concentration camps. In Milkweed by Jerry Spinelli, the book shows how Nazi soldiers affected Jews. Nazis affected Jews by putting them in ghettos. The text says “‘Deportation’”. They’re going to get rid of all of you. Take you away on trains.’This sounded good to me. ‘Where?’ I said,. The ‘Russia’ is a snare. Washington, America?’ He curled his fingers around my neck. He squeezed the snare. I don’t know what to do. You don’t want to …show more content…

Get out of the way. Run. Don’t stop running.’ He looked at the sky. ‘Ever’”(Spinelli 93). When the trains came to the ghettos to pick up Jews and take them to concentration camps, people thought they were going to a good place. Some people knew it was bad, like DR. Korczak told Misha to run, showing he knew that it was not gonna be a good thing. The text says “Medical supplies were sparse and, after many ghettos were sealed and cut off from the outside world, quickly ran out altogether. After having lost their businesses and normal forms of employment, most people in the ghettos had no regular source of income. This led to a thriving black market, “where people attempted to exchange possessions for their everyday needs” (The Ghettos). Doctors ran out of meds to help sick people, so more and more people were dying. Lots of people did not have jobs, so they sold stuff on the black market, to make money to buy food and other necessary things. Jews were greatly affected by the Nazi ghettos. Nazis affected Jews by putting them in concentration camps. The text says “It was a blue-and-white parade—and how different from the grand parade of the Jackboots! So slow, so quiet, hardly a baby

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