I Have Lived A Thousand Years

The Holocaust was a traumatic event that most people can’t even wrap their minds around. Libraries are filled with books about the Holocaust because people are both fascinated and horrified to learn the details of what survivors went through. Maus by Art Spiegelman and Night by Elie Wiesel are two highly praised Holocaust books that illustrate the horrors of the Holocaust. Night is a traditional narrative that mainly focuses on Elie’s experiences throughout the holocaust while Maus is a comic book that focuses on the relationship between Art and his father and the generational trauma Art is going through as well as his father’s experiences during the Holocaust. Night and Maus are very different styles of

The story is a documentary but in a cartoon, comic type of way and is like an adventure that makes you just reflect about your life and back then. LIfe was a struggle to survive during the war if you were a Jew for they would hunt you down. Also it just reflects on feeling of how you would feel if you lost your family and all you had, even if you were rich and wealthy you would be treated like less than a human. The book leaves you thinking on many concepts and it's true how could a human be treated as less just because of your religion.

The book I read was Never To Forget The Jews of the Holocaust by Milton Meltzer. The book is written by Meltzer’s true story of the. It tells the story of when over five million Jewish people were massacred. The book has no characters. From beginning to end the book takes place in Germany. It only tells the straight forward account of the Jewish Holocaust. He writes the story in an interesting view point because he is an old American Jew, watching events of the war from newspapers and radios. Writing the book in informational facts. The first chapter is entitled “History of Hatred.” It describes the horrible conditions Jews had to endure prior to the date January of 1933, Hitler comes to power. It also explains how the Jews were enslaved

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.

In conclusion, I believe this book has insight about the holocaust that most history books do not. The book Night should be continued to be taught throughout future school

Night by Elie Wiesel was also a very disturbing memoir on the Holocaust. Some of the scenes depicted even gave me nightmares; about someone torturing me like the Nazis did the Jews. Last year in English we read two

For the Jews of the Holocaust, even their families were not a guaranteed part of their lives. Many of them went to school or out to the store and came home to find their house empty, their families taken away. An example of this is a story from Dora Zuer Iwler, who was out working when the Nazis came and took away her mother and brother and shot her sister (Brostoff, 12). Another story tells about Helbert Silberman’s experience when he goes to live with his grandparents to find their house destroyed and his grandparents missing (Brostoff, 18). These are just two of the many horrible situations in which Jews came home to find their families gone, and these were just minor instances of families being separated. Some instances involved families being ripped apart before they were shipped by cattle cars to their deaths. Ester Haas tells a story about how her sister, Rieke, became separated from her and how she never saw Rieke again once the war was over (Brostoff, 84-85). The movie Escape from Sobibor also depicts families being separated as the Jews arrive at Sobibor camp. Many of the characters must sit there helplessly as their family members are taken away to be killed (DVD). These stories put my life into perspective because my family has not been ripped from my life. My family is very much a part in my life and it hits close to home to imagine a life in which they are gone. These stories make me think about how unbearable life would be if I had nobody left to look after me or love me. Life is difficult enough even with a family looking out for you and helping you, so I would never want to live in a life that doesn’t include them. The concept that the book conveys make me really appreciate the people in my life that care about me. It also makes me

Being high school students, it is hard to connect to anything involving the Holocaust, but the way the story is written we get more of a connection to the people inside the

The author of the book that I am going to introduce, is a North Korean defector. The book is called The Girl With Seven Names. It describes the story of the author Hyeonseo Lee, who escaped from North Korea at age 17.She has changed her name for several times at different periods of her life. She used these names to mask her real identity after she escaped from North Korea.

I chose this theme because the story is about Jews in the Treblinka concentration camp. Most of the Jews were in fear, they lost hope, desire, but there were few who wanted to fight against the Nazis for their freedom. Their biggest obstacle was fear. In addition, while reading this book, I often had hard time sleeping, even though I don’t read it right before the bed. If the book was fiction, then it might not be that hard to sleep but I knew that the story is during the Holocaust and everything actually happened. The author included both spiritual and emotional struggles. Due to the well-written context, I could follow the story easily. Also, some of the scenes I still cannot forget in my

The Holocaust was one of our nation's most horrific and gruesome time period. Approximately six million innocent Jewish people died. No one at this time knew it was such a terrible and nonsense thing to do. I Have Lived 1,000 Years, written by Livia Britton-Jackson, is about a young teenage girl, Ellie, living through the Holocaust and not knowing what to expect. You should read this book because it is a story of faith and love, it makes you not want to put the book down and because the main character, Ellie, reminds me of you.

I am going to guess that the reader of this essay is not a holocaust survivor. I can almost guarantee it. Although you’re not a survivor of one of the most horrific events in history, it does not mean you will have no feelings about it if you were to hear some stories. I call them stories because most books written of such detail are mere personal experiences and not factual, historical information. Speaking of personal experiences, I took the time to read a book about a man named Viktor Emil Frankl (26 March 1905 – 2 September 1997).¹ He was an Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist as well as a Holocaust survivor. The book is called “Man’s Search for Meaning”, and I find it to be a truthful collection of anecdotes and philosophies. For

Although early in the book I Have Lived a Thousand Years Eli’s mom says a yellow star doesn't “kill or condemn or harm”(31) I think it does because it was the beginning to a lot of pain and suffering. When they were given the stars, people knew who were jews so they knew who to send away to the ghettos. After they were in the ghetto Eli and her mom were taken to Auschwitz where the pain really started. In Auschwitz eli's mom became paralyzed when a poorly made bunk fell on her. When she was healing she was slow so eli helped her. When Eli's mom was getting ready to slow the guarded attacked her so eli pushed her away. When eli pushed the guard she got [kicked] “ in the face, [and] the chest” (145).

This book is about a girl who steals books in Nazi Germany in 1939. I believe this book will help me on my hero’s journey because it talks about how you can’t take away people's freedom. I want to be a leader someday so this book would help me not abuse power if I became a leader. The deadline for this book is the end of the second session. The deadline for the review is the end of session three. I will be doing a written review. This book is life changing because it shows people how a government can get out of hand. This book has very complex ideas because it talks about Nazi Germany and stealing books. I am exploring new subjects and genres because I have not read a book about something real in a long time. This book is appropriate at this time because I have previously read books about Nazi Germany. The Lexile level of this book is 730. This book has 584 pages. The next three books I am going to read are The Jungle, Moyers on Democracy, and Steve

Many stories are often told in a Jewish person’s account. It is able to tell what the German child’s life is like. Because people often think that the German’s were the bad people and the Jewish people were the victims. In this book you were able to tell how the German’s actually felt and how they portrayed the story. These reasons might be true, but the book could have done a better job at showing the Germans lifestyle when tell the story. They were very vague and don’t give a whole lot of description. Since the book was wrote in a child’s perspective; the child was very naive and doesn’t exactly know what is entirely happening in this time or war. As you can see, this book does show that it is in a German boy’s perspective, but it lacks a lot of strong info and it is very