Hannah Stern Book Report

Hanneli ‘Hannah’ Pik-Goslar was much like other Jewish children in Germany in the 1930’s, she was shunned, not allowed to go to the movies or ice skate, and was forced to attend a special school. Most of Germany was segregated against the Jewish and against her family. Hannah was born in Germany in 1928 to Ruth Klee and Hans Goslar, by the time she’s 5 years old she and her parents are already on the run from Nazi’s. When she’s 12 her sister Gabi was born. She is already friends with Anne when she hears they’ve fled to Switzerland. This is not true as they have just started their two year hiding period in the Secret Annex. In 1942 Hannah’s mom dies in childbirth with a stillborn baby. While her dad managed to get passport, they were still arrested

Hannah’s background as a Holocaust survivor is important for understanding the experience of the Holocaust. Her story provides unique insight on the Holocaust outside of concentration camps, dispels myths, and captivates the emotional aura of living during the Holocaust. Hannah’s story is one of resistance, danger, and the importance of family.

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,

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 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.

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.

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.

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

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

"On July 16 and 17, 1942, 13, 152 Jews were arrested in Paris and the suburbs, deported and assassinated at Auschwitz. In the Vélodrome d' Hiver that once stood on this spot, 1,129 men, 2,916 women, and 4,115 children were packed here in inhuman conditions by the government of the Vichy police, by order of the Nazi occupant. May those who tried to save them be thanked. Passerby, never forget” (De Rosnay 60). In the book Sarah’s Key, it begins with a young girl named Sarah Starzinsky, who is dealing with her family being removed by the French police and put into a camp. Before the family left, Sarah puts her brother into a closet and locks him in to where he will not come out until she comes back. However, Sarah and her family did not realize that they were not

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.

“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 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

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