Summary Of Jill Klein's The Walk

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Jill Klein knowing this about memory, she interviewed her family, and whenever something was not so clear for anyone, she looked over maps and photographs to help her family to remember exactly about details. One example of this is in chapter 3 where she talks about “The Walk.” She used a map, like a sketch, of the concentration camp in Auschwitz to help Gabi to remember whether Herman turned to the left or to the right when they arrived. This map also started to help her to see where the Crematoria where, so she could analyze the information given to see if Herman went to Crematoria I, II, III, or IV. Something that I noticed of Klein’s book was that she started writing her book telling the story of Gabi’s birth. She gives as much details …show more content…

They told the prisoners, with a lot of excitement, that they were free. They ate and attended with a doctor. Gabi was diagnosed with typhoid, but he did not care. He took his medications and went out of the camp with Jacek and Mirek. As they walked through and found a house, they got cleaned as they had long time without do it. They got clean clothing and food. They satisfied and continued their way home. Gabi wanted to get to Beregszázs as soon as he could to meet with his family, but he was kind of afraid. In the other hand, Lily, Bertha, and Oli had a harder time to came back home. In Sommerda was still being bombarded, and they needed to walk a lot of kilometers. The German soldiers did not allow them to rest. Then, they needed to stay in a town because there were no trains that would take them to Beregszász. Gerta was so kind with them, as well as the American guys they met. And as soon as they found a train, they rode it. In some cases, the trains needed to stop because the railroads were destroyed. In other time, they took the wrong train and went to the wrong direction. Took them a lot of days after liberation to get home. Once all of them were reunited, they felt complete, but I am sure that took them a lot of time to convince themselves about Herman’s dead. Being together was all that matter to them. They did not want to get separated again

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