Anita Lobel's Nini Lost And Found

I'm going to tell you a little story about Lisl Winternitz and about her life.”some non-Jews hid Jewish children and sometimes, as in the case of Anna Frank,hid other family members as well”(myjewishlearning.com). Lisl Winternitz was born in may 7, 1926. She lived in Prague, Czechoslovakia. Lisl was the youngest of two children born to a Jewish family in the Czechoslovakian capital of Prague. Lisl’s family lived on Karlova Street in the karlin district of the city. Liesl's father owned a wholesale business that sold floor coverings. When Liesl's was 12 she went to school and her teacher shouted at her, “You dirty, filthy Jew!” and then spat at her face. They weren’t allowed in any public place and their ration cards were stamped with a red

People can only imagine the terrors that the Jews and other ethnic groups had to go through during the Holocaust in World War II. With Anne Frank’s diary, people can finally put themselves into the scene and captivate all the feelings and sentiments that Anne Frank has poured onto the pages. Anne Frank, her family, and their friends were known for hiding from the German Nazis in the Secret Annex for two years from 1942-1944. Innocent and naive,

The article, “The Girl Who Lived Forever”, by Kristen Lewis, describes the hardships of Anne Frank, a Jewish girl, and her family, who like millions of other Jews, perished at the hands of the Nazis during WWII. Anne Frank lived during one of the most terrifying and horrific historical events the world has ever seen, the Holocaust. She and her family managed to survive for 2 long years in hiding, by living in a secret annex behind her father’s pectin factory. In August of 1944, the SS captured Anne and the others hiding in the annex. All but Otto Frank, Anne’s father, perished in the Nazi concentration camps. Though they lived through unspeakable and unimaginable challenges, Anne, her family and their friends showed a tremendous amount of courage trying to defy Hitler and his evil regime.

Growing up in a wartime environment affects the identities, confidence and adolescence process for many people. In the books, The Diary of A Young Girl, Farewell to Manzanar, and Night, World War II accelerates Anne’s, Jeanne’s and Elie’s precious maturity and coming of age process. World War II, the Nazis and their identity of being Jewish forces Anne and Elie to grow up and mature much sooner than expected. For Jeanne Wakatsuki, World War II have a negative impact on Jeanne’s confidence and she starts to lose respect towards her Japanese heritage. All three of them are struggling to find out who they truly are. Anne Frank, Jeanne Wakatsuki and Elie Wiesel all are greatly affected by the war, but in different milieus and in

My sister is ripped from me, shouting and kicking with fear. Anger and confusion build up in young Rina’s wide, grey eyes. The German devils roll their eyes when they see our pain. They scuff, “Toughen up, Jews,” making us feel worse about this tragic life we’ve been forced to live. Rina yelps when a Nazi soldier slaps her and shoves her away from me. I think to myself, “This is the end. If Rina is gone and my parents are separated from us, how are we all supposed to live in this unfamiliar place alone?”

It tells the events of the lifetime of a teenage Jewish girl, Anne, during her hiding from the Nazis for two years in the Secret Annex. This narrative tells the most significant feelings emotions doubts, fears and hopes of Anne during the two years of hiding and the thoughts that worries her like isolation, identity, family, love youth

Kindertransport, a modern classic by Diane Samuels, cleverly illustrates the mechanisms of a mother/daughter relationship alongside themes of post-modernism, feminism and identity. Nine months before the outbreak of WWII, 10 000 unaccompanied Jewish children were sent to England as a precautionary measure due to the Kristallnacht. One of them was Eva, daughter of Helga, sent unwillingly because of her mother’s wishes to keep her alive. Presently, Evelyn is sending her daughter to college. Old memories resurface as Evelyn is forced to confront – her childhood as Eva.

Imagine, living in a peaceful environment surrounded by your loved ones, and suddenly watching it crumble to pieces in front of you. As morbid as that sounds Antonina and Jan Zabinski had to prevail through a constant state of peril, but they did more than just survived. In the midst of World War II, as Germany was invading Poland, the family managed to save about 300 lives by allowing shelter and hiding places in their zoo while working with the Underground; a resistance group dedicated to riding Warsaw of the German Nazis. The family overcomes many hardships that I would love to inform you of because truly this book is like no other I have read, and I say that with respect and awe. This novel contains laughter, sacrifice, and bravery in all of its forms.

Hidden like Anne Frank is a historical nonfiction book written by Marcel Prins and Peter Henk Steenhuis. The book focuses on the story of 14 children of Jewish descent who went into hiding during WWII (1939-1945) and survived. The book includes an interactive website that features audio recordings and animations of the children who went into hiding, telling their story. The stories were written as they were told by these children. Of course, they are much older now, and some of them are even in their nineties! The 14 children each have their own unique story. Some ended up getting sent to Auschwitz or Westerbork, and some remained safe while in hiding. Many of the children’s parents, relatives, or friends died during this time. The book tells the stories of: Rita Degen, Jaap Sitters, Bloeme Emden, Jack Eljon, Rose-Mary Kahn, Lies Elion, Maurice Meijer, Sieny Kattenburg, Leni de Vries, Benjamin Kosses, Michel Goldsteen, Lowina de Levie, Johan Sanders, and Donald de Marcas.

Both books begin with the telling of life before the Second World War and the holocaust. It effectively sets up the devastation of later chapters that paints the gruesome pictures of concentration camps and the horrifying experiences of the German rule. While Women in the Holocaust continuously clarifies that men went through their own hell in camps and beatings from the Nazis, the book underlines the tribulations women suffered from that are strikingly different from the experiences of men, before and after the war. Women in the Holocaust follows various women’s voices to both outline the historical facts and share their memoirs about their survival as Jews. The book begins by introducing the gender structures before the war; women’s role in comparison to men, their status in society, mothers’ responsibilities with taking care of their family and their relationship with their neighbours. The prewar

“Your new home.” These are words many people never want to hear and Liesel Meminger doesn’t want to hear them either. In the historical fiction book, The Book Thief, by Markus Zusak, the main character is a young girl named Liesel Meminger. During World War 2, it’s bad enough that Liesel and her younger brother, Werner have to move to a foster home far away from everything they have ever known because their mother can’t support them alone, but when her brother dies on the way there, she has to figure out a way to deal with all of this. Liesel has to be courageous, venture to a new home, and eventually help her new family hide a Jew in the heart of Nazi Germany. I believe that you aren’t courageous because you have no fears, but because you have found a way to overcome your fears. So, it’s ok to be afraid, but you become courageous when you conquer your fears.

The book follows her over the course of five years, following her from her home in the city, through work camps to refugee camps, weaving between the lives and deaths of those whom she called family. The novel deals with the brutality of genocide, and is classified an adult novel, but in reality, no amount of age could prepare someone for the heart-wrenching tragedy that is a little girl striving to live amongst death. While some would argue that such an extreme trauma would leave the victim scarred

In the novel The Book Thief Markus Zusak uses many different characters, experiences, and control factors to greatly illustrate the life of a young girl and her book living experience through the Holocaust.

Karen Gershon was a Jewish-born German, who grew up during a catastrophic period in Germany’s history. After the pogrom of November 1938 (Kristallnacht) and a wave of attacks on the Jews, Gershon was sent by the Kindertransport to live in England. Unfortunately, both her mother and father passed away as a devastating

During the devastating time of World War II, a Jewish teenage girl wrote a diary about the gruesome events she witnessed, this diary was named, Diary of a Young Girl, Anne Frank. Anne Frank lived in Holland and went into hiding when her sister, Margot, got a letter to go to a reception camp. The Franks faced terrifying moments during hiding. They witnessed war outside their window and stayed in the same house without even going outside for about two years.To add on, the Franks had to keep in mind how every day they could be arrested or even die. Sadly Anne and her family are arrested and are sent to Auschwitz, a concentration camp where she would later die. While in hiding, the Franks and the Van Daans, who were also in hiding with them,