The Hiding Place, by Corrie ten Boom, is an extensive study of Betsie dies, foreseeing on her deathbed Corrie’s ministry: to tell their story and help people find Jesus. the horrors of the Holocaust is, paradoxically, responding in faith. The entire experience of the Ten Boom family comes to pass because of their unwavering dedication in living God's will for them, as they see it. Their response to the hellish events of their times is straightforward and unquestioned; they open their home to Jewish victims of Nazi persecution for the simple reason that they are fellow human beings in need of assistance, they endure the unspeakable consequences of their deeds by seeking God's help in bearing their burdens, and they strive to overcome their human tendencies towards bitterness and anger in order to forgive the perpetrators of the most heinous of crimes in imitation of their Savior. The Ten Booms' response to circumstances during World War II is simply an extension of the manner in which they have always approached life. In a spirit of loving kindness, they have always held the …show more content…
When Betsie and Corrie switch roles, the emphasis on their differences is especially strong. Betsie’s quiet patience and good-natured generosity brings Corrie’s impatience and energy into focus. Despite their differences, Betsie and Corrie’s personalities complement each other and reveal the close bond of the sisters. Betsie’s homemaking illustrates the theme of home and homeliness, which reappears in Scheveningen. Wherever Betsie goes, she tries to make a place into a home, by instilling order and beauty even into a prison cell. The symbol of home holds great significance for a family who is forced to leave their house. Home represents love and care, and sharply contrasts the philosophy of Nazism. Later in the prison, the sisters are called by numbers rather than name and made to feel like they are not human
The main character in this story is a Jewish girl named Alicia. When the book starts she is ten years old, she lives in the Polish town of Buczacz with her four brothers, Moshe, Zachary, Bunio, and Herzl, and her mother and father. The Holocaust experience began subtly at first when the Russians began to occupy Buczacz. When her brother Moshe was killed at a “ Boys School” in Russia and her father was gathered up by German authorities, the reality of the whole situation quickly became very real. Her father was taken away shortly after the Russians had moved out and the Germans began to occupy Buczacz.
During the Holocaust six million Jews lost their lives, while others lost their friends, family and dignity. Helen Waterford discusses her survival in the novel Parallel Journeys . Through Helen Waterford’s journey to hide, survive, and rejoin society, she realizes that she cannot dwell on what has happened to her but learn and become wise from what she has endured.
She spreads the love of Jesus to keep fellow prisoners faith in being released. Without Bestie’s prayers, Corrie would not be optimistic during her sentence at the camp. Betsie ten Boom says, “These young women. That girl back at the bunkers. Corrie, if people can be taught to hate, they can be taught to love! We must find the way, you and I, no matter how long it takes. . . .” (Boom 125). This reveals that Betsie sees the goodness in everyone, and she does not believe that the person is evil. The person is surrounded by evil. Betsie and Corrie are taken to Vught, and Betsie sees the opportunity to spread love while they are there. She sees how much hate the concentration camps bring, and the only outcome of hate is even more hate. If Betsie and Corrie spread love, then all of the hate will turn into love for one another. While Betsie and Corrie are prisoners at the concentration camp, they try to help fellow prisoners. They helped the prisoners by comforting them with the love of Jesus. Betsie and Corrie gave the prisoners hope when they did not have any. The narrator says, “In the midst of their agony, each sought to comfort cold and desperately hungry fellow prisoners, often speaking a last word affirming the presence of Christ to those destined for the gas chambers” (Holt 52). Betsie and Corrie are truly good people by nature. Despite being in a bad environment
Of all the ten children of Henry and Nanny Delany, Sadie and Bessie developed a bond of companionship from childhood to the end of their lives. They were even able to complete each other’s thoughts, because they shared what Karl Mannheim described as a "common location in the social and historical process" that "predisposes them for a certain characteristic mode of thought and experience." They therefore, corroborated some of Mannheim’s discussions on "location" and its effect on a generation (Karl Mannheim, The Sociological Problem of Generations, pp. 290-91).
The author of “The Hiding Place” was also the main character, Corrie Ten Boom. She was writing her own experiences through the war and documenting that section of her life. She wrote this book to show what it was honestly like for Jews and people helping Jews during the war. Some of history around what happened to the Jews was covered up, but slowly everyone has collectively uncovered it and made it known. This book was a part of uncovering the truth. It also taught many people what happened without being too gruesome. With the
Between Night and The Hiding Place, comradeship, faith, strength, and people of visions are clearly proved to be essential in order to survive in these death camps. Corrie, Elie, and other victims of these harsh brutalities who did survive had a rare quality that six million others unfortunately did not.
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.
It is commonly believed that the only way to overcome difficult situations is by taking initiative in making a positive change, although this is not always the case. The theme of the memoir the Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls is that the changes made in children’s lives when living under desperate circumstances do not always yield positive results. In the book, Jeannette desperately tries to improve her life and her family’s life as a child, but she is unable to do so despite her best efforts. This theme is portrayed through three significant literary devices in the book: irony, symbolism and allusion.
"Nominated for a 1998 National Book Award for Young People's Literature, No Pretty Pictures: A Child of War is Anita Lobel's gripping memoir of surviving the Holocaust. A Caldecott-winning illustrator of such delightful picture books as On Market Street, it is difficult to believe Lobel endured the horrific childhood she did. From age 5 to age 10, Lobel spent what are supposed to be carefree years hiding from the Nazis, protecting her younger brother, being captured and marched from camp to camp, and surviving completely dehumanizing conditions. A terrifying story by any measure, Lobel's memoir is all the more haunting as told from the first-person, child's-eye view. Her girlhood voice tells it like it is, without irony or even complete understanding, but with matter-of-fact honesty and astonishing attention to detail. She carves vivid, enduring images into readers' minds. On hiding in the attic of the ghetto: "We were always told to be very quiet. The whispers of the trapped grown-ups sounded like the noise of insects rubbing their legs together." On being discovered while hiding in a convent: "They lined us up facing the wall. I looked at the dark red bricks in front of me and waited for the shots. When the shouting continued and the shots didn't come, I noticed my breath hanging in thin puffs in the air." On trying not to draw the attention of the Nazis: "I wanted to shrink away. To fold into a small invisible thing that had no detectable smell. No breath. No flesh. No sound."
The three sources Behind the Bedroom Wall, by Laura Williams, “Survivors of the Holocaust,” and “Last Letters of the Holocaust: 1941,” all have characters and people who realize that through catastrophic events, that family is very valuable in order to surpass discrimination. In “Behind the Bedroom Wall” the characters Korinna and her mom learn that they have to understand each other and cope with each other believes in order to get through this tough time. Korinna had to open her eyes to what is really happening in order to realize the true situation. For everyone this is a very emotional time for everyone because that nobody really knew what was happening or how to fix it, they were all just trying to fit into what they were supposed to
Annemarie is one of the main characters in this book. she is a 10 year old german girl who lives in Copenhagan, Denmark with her mom, dad, and young sister Kirsti. Annemarie tells the story from her point of view. “It was only in the fairy tales that people were called upon to be so brave, to die for one another.Not in real-life denmark” annemarie struggles to find the definition of courage, but with the big journey that awaits uphead she soon finds out.
Sarah and Julia are no exception to this feeling and the conflicts that are created by it. They end up using these experiences to reflect and to continue on their journey to authenticity. Everyone has experienced a passing relative or a disconnection with an old friend, these key moments in our lives make us step back and reevaluate ourselves. Sarah experiences great grief during her journey in July 1942. Once Sarah and her parents arrived at the Velodrome d’Hiver, Sarah continued to ask her father when they are going to go back to their apartment, Sarah’s father explains “There is nothing we can do… Nothing.” (de Rosnay 56). Sarah’s tried to gently tell Sarah there is no hope of getting back to her brother in time or at all. Sarah realizes the gravity in leaving Michael behind, “The girl understood. She was no longer a happy little ten-year-old girl. She was someone much older. Nothing would ever be the same again. For her. For her family. For her brother.” (de Rosnay 57) This moment of potential loss changes something in Sarah making her into a strong and harder little girl, trying to survive these horrendous circumstances and keeping hope for her brother's safety and survival in their secret cupboard. At the Drancy camp, Sarah and her mother are stripped from each other, in that moment she sees her mother break, crumble into something unknown. “Gone was the happy, loving woman. Gone was the mother who used to sweep
Despite the Grandmother’s earlier preaching about the horrid character of the Misfit, when put in a back-to-the-wall situation she says, “I know you’re a good man”. The Grandmother’s strong concept of morality goes out the window when she is in a precarious situation. This is not unjustified, as she simply wants to make it out of the situation alive, yet it calls into question her character and the strength of her convictions. It also makes the readers themselves question their own morality; what would they do in a similar situation? The reader can feel sympathy for the Grandmother in this dangerous situation, yet it is her actions as the conversation progresses that cause the reader to pause and truly question the character of the Grandmother. The Misfit’s assistants systematically kill her family, as they are taken into the woods and shot. Throughout this time, the Grandmother seems to only be focused on self-preservation, with her only recognition of something awry being two isolated yells of “Bailey Boy!” O’Connor is showing the character of not just the Grandmother, but what she perceives to be the common trend in 1950’s culture. The idea of family unity and selflessness, even by those who propagate the idea, is forgotten when the individual is
Imprisoned in the “cardboard world” for a long time, Antoinette feels so lonely. “Long ago when I was a child and very lonely I tried to kiss her”(Rhys 180). She thinks of her childhood, and she does not remember many things. Undoubtedly, she becomes more abnormal. “One morning when I woke I ached all over. Not the cold, another sort of ache. I saw that my wrists were red and swollen”(181). Something bad has happened to the poor woman. “Grace said, ‘I suppose you’re going to tell me that you don’t remember anything about last night’”(181). Grace’s words imply that Antoinette often forget about something. A submissive wife is changed by her husband’s indifference-- she endures loneliness, coldness and despair.
On June 12, 1929, at 7:30 AM, a baby girl was born in Frankfort, Germany. No one realized that this infant, who was Jewish, was destined to become one of the worlds most famous victims of World War II. Her name was Anne Frank. Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, by Anne Frank and B.M. Mooyaart, was actually the real diary of Anne Frank. Anne was a girl who lived with her family during the time while the Nazis took power over Germany. Because they were Jewish, Otto, Edith, Margot, and Anne Frank immigrated to Holland in 1933. Hitler invaded Holland on May 10, 1940, a month before Anne?s eleventh birthday. In July 1942, Anne's family went into hiding in the Prinsengracht building. Anne and her family called it the 'Secret Annex'. Life there was not easy at all. They had to wake up at 6:45 every morning. Nobody could go outside, nor turn on lights at night. Anne mostly spent her time reading books, writing stories, and of course, making daily entries in her diary. She only kept her diary while hiding from the Nazis. This diary told the story of the excitement and horror in this young girl's life during the Holocaust. Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl reveals the life of a young innocent girl who is forced into hiding from the Nazis because of her religion, Judaism. This book is very informing and enlightening. It introduces a time period of discrimination, unfair judgment, and power-crazed individuals, and with this, it shows the effect on the defenseless.