Hannah Stern Book Report

In the novel, Elli Friedmann has to encounter traumatizing experiences that a 13 year-old should not have to go through. She starts out living at a small farming town at the edge of the Carpathian foothills, and then gets taken away from her home to living in the “ghetto” with all the other Jews in nearby districts. From there, her mother and her travel camp to camp with SS guards comparing everyone with the last. While she come across the challenges, she learns that dying is not an option, never give up hope, and there is always another way. Elli is a very strong girl and lived to tell the tale on what happened during World War 2.

Do you know what happened in the holocaust? Hannah is a girl who at first hates her “stupid” religion. This young 16-year old’s attitude is very typical for most girls her age. Hannah from the “The Devil's Arithmetic”m has many experiences. Hannah values also change. She learns a lot too.

Night is an non fiction, dramatic book that tells the horrors of the nazi death camps all around Europe. The book is an autobiographical account of what happened, so the main character is the author. The author is Elie Wiesel who was only 14 year old when Nazi Germany came through his town of Sighet, Transylvania. This is story is set between the years of 1944 and 1945. Elie and his family of 4 are optimistic when Germany begins to take power. Germany invades Hungary, then arrives in Elie’s town. The Nazi’s begin to take over the Jews by limiting their freedom. Jews are eventually deported. The Jewish people are crowded into wagons where they are shipped to Auschwitz. He is separated from his mother and sister. Over the course of the book,

The main character’s name is Hannah from New Rochelle and she doesn’t want to go to her grandparents house for Seder. In both Nazis kill many of the Jews in the concentration camps and the Jews must also be separate from the opposite gender. Hannah tells the others stories about the future to give them hope. Some jews try to escape because they don’t want to live in the concentration camps any longer, but the escape fails and they get punished. In the book and the movie the Germans torture many Jews and leave them to die. Several of them tried to escape and live a better life. The only way to survive was to have hope.

Hannah Stern is a young Jewish girl who lives in New Rochelle, New York. Most of her family that she attends Passover Seder with at her grandparents’ house was alive during the Holocaust they were even put in concentration camps. Hannah dreaded going over there because she is tired of hearing about the past and is uncomfortable listening to her grandpa Will rant about his experiences in the concentration camp. Through out the book you really understand how hard it was back the and how Hannah was so brave for taking Rivkas’ place in being sent to euphemism for extermination. By the end of the book you can tell how Hannah has changed her perspective on the past and how it is boring to listen to her grandpa going on in on what happened back then.

The play version of The Diary of Anne Frank tells the story of a young girl who goes into hiding during the Holocaust. In this play, Anne writes in her diary the details of what it’s like to go into hiding. In 1942, it was not only Anne who was struggling to survive, there was a boy, Elie Weisel, who was not in hiding, he was in a concentration camp. In this book that he wrote called Night, he talks about the details and struggles of being in the concentration camps. Although the play and Night have different settings, both works focus on the same conflicts and themes.

Ten-year-old Annemarie Johansen and her best friend Ellen Rosen often think of life before the war. It's now 1943 and their life in Copenhagen is filled with school, food shortages, and the Nazi soldiers marching through town. When the Jews of Denmark are "relocated," Ellen moves in with the Johansens and pretends to be one of the family. Soon Annemarie is asked to go on a dangerous mission to save Ellen's

Life is a precious thing, and it is so precious that some people will undergo severe anguish to hold on to it. During the 1930’s and 1940’s in Germany, people of the Jewish religion were diabolically oppressed and slaughtered, just for their beliefs. Some Jews went to extreme measures to evade capture by the German law enforcement, hoping to hold on to life. Krystyna Chiger was only a small child when her family, along with a group of other desperate Jews, descended into the malignant sewers to avoid the Germans. After living in the abysmal sewers for fourteen months, her group emerged, and when she became an adult, she authored a novel about her time in the sewer. When analyzing the literary elements utilized in her novel, The Girl in the Green Sweater, one can determine how tone and mood, point of view, and conflict convey the message of struggle and survival that was experienced during the Holocaust, and how they help the reader to understand and relate.

The story is about a Jewish girl named Hannah who is not very excited to go to the Seder dinner for Passover. She is chosen to open the door for the Prophet Elijah when she is transported back in time to 1942. She goes to a wedding when she, and the group she is with, is interrupted by some Nazi SS soldiers.They take them on a gruesome ride to a concentration camp in the middle of nowhere. They are treated very poorly and Hannah loses some close friends to sickness and gas chambers. Just

“I wanted simultaneously to understand Hanna’s crime and condemn it…” The book is more of a story about a boy trying to understand his lover, than it is a Holocaust story. Discuss.

The story starts in 1943, Denmark when the Nazi has occupied their country for the past three years. One day, a ten-year-old girl named, Annemarie walks home from school with her best Jewish friend named, Ellen.On the way home, two German soldiers stop them and question them why they are running. But Kirsti, a five-year-old sister of Aneemarie, confuses the moment by her rude behavior. When the girls arrive at home, Annemaries's mama, Mrs. Johansen and Mrs. Rosen, Ellen's mother, are very upset to hear about the conflict and warn the girls to be careful encountering German soldiers.

The setting is indicated by the author in italics above the first two chapters as being “Paris, July 1942” (Rosnay 1) and “Paris, May 2002” (Rosnay 4). This is further proved in the novel by the phrases and feeling of the time used in each chapter. Sarah’s story begins with mentionings of “camps”, “a big roundup”, and “early morning arrests” as well as hiding in cellars (Rosnay 1), and the issue of trusting the French but not the Germans (Rosnay 3). She lived in a tragic world filled with death where “entire families had been killed” (Rosnay 40), where the Jews were hated “because they wore a yellow star” (Rosnay 88). Her life is filled with fear because of “that man, in Germany, who hated Jews, and whose very name made her shiver” (Rosnay

The Holocaust becomes the center of this. Whether it be at his Hebrew school, where Jewish history shaped not only the curriculum they learn. But, also as a collective identity shared by a new and contemporary Jewish generation. While still being connected to the past. This is a struggle for Mark, who does not even identify himself as Jewish for most of the story, He is continuously challenged with where to place himself in this new world, as a second-generation immigrant to Toronto. For Mark, being a young Latvian Jew is not easy.

In “Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl”, readers get a firsthand account of a young Jewish girl’s attempt to survive in Nazi occupied Holland. Being lucky enough to have found a successful hiding place with her family, Anne uses the diary as an escape from the misery surrounding her. Rather than focusing on the potential horrors she may experience as a result of the genocide against Jews, she chooses instead to describe all the ways her life has remained normal despite its upheaval. Even though she still experienced the sanctions and fear of discovery and death that all Jews faced at the time, her experience was atypical of Jews during the war because she maintained a sense of normalcy, and felt she actually grew and developed because of

Threading through it is a powerful motif, elaborated over several scattered chapters: the life and thoughts of a teenage survivor of Auschwitz, the sole survivor of her family, who matured to become the