Jeannine Burk Analysis

In the year 1941, Lithuania was invaded and many Jewish families fled from Lithuania. Margarets family didn't leave because her brother Alik was at a children's holiday camp. Margaret was never sent to a camp, she lived in the ghetto. Margaret's description of the ghetto years as “dreadful”. The people were forced to do hard labour and were deprived of their food.

Anne and her family has very hard lives during the Holocaust. They treat you so poorly in the concentration camps. The fact that they hid for a very long time instead of registering, made them prisoners so they were treated even worse.

These teens have similar and different traits. Each of them lived together and became closer. They also had a different thing to study and learn about. The teens were good friends, Jews, lived in the Annex, and are all dead. Their differences were there genders, age, and parent’s favorite. These similarities and differences helps people understand more about the

Many, many people suffered during the Holocaust war. The Jews in particular were in grave danger. The drama ‘Anne Frank’ outlines so many ways that this historical event caused a shift in the mood of the characters and their relationships. Before the Holocaust, Anne Frank was just an ordinary Jewish girl living in Germany. A German leader named Adolf Hitler developed a plan to destroy the Jews and to rule over the specific places where they lived. What Hitler did to these poor Jews, and the sheer terror they endured at the hands of this Nazi leader is purely unfathomable.

Born in Poland, Henia Weit was the youngest of nine children in her family. She lived in a town by the name of Sambor. Unfortunately, the town was bombarded by German soldiers shortly after Hitler started his reign of terror on the Jews. Henia’s family was forced to do laborious work in a ghetto until they were all deported to a concentration camp. Fortunately for Henia, she was able to escape and never went to the concentration camp herself. Instead, she had to survive for several years alone, with only her sister to turn to.

She had discovered the power of words and it felt so exhilarating! She wrote and explored her new found creative love with passion until the door flew open and Miss Muller and Miss Margot rushed in beaming, "We're heard that the war will soon be over and everyone will be freed." Willy jumped up into the air and twirled and then ran over laughing and hugged the ladies. Joseph who was still feeling rather ill sat and clapped his hands and coughed twice. And Anna smiled happily dropped her pen and paper and declared, "I can't believe that we had survived in your basement for so long. It will be such a pleasure to feel the sunshine on my shoulders again." then she stood up and began to twirl around, and around. Midway through her third twirl a violently tremor tossed her to the floor. Then there was another shake and a loud crash as a squad of German soldiers kicked in the front door. Once the soldiers were in they marched around their blacks boots making a click clock sound on the wood floors as they searching. Everyone held their breath and listened as the soldiers opened squeaky doors and then slamming them shut, door after door until finally they entered into the tiny room where the group five was huddled together. Four were on their feet and other remained seated. The tall SS officer who was in charge smiled at the them and mocked, "We're making merriment yes?" Then he pointed to them squinting his small devious blue eyes and demanded, "What's your names?" Everyone gave their name and he frowned at Joseph and through clenched teeth snickered, "You let's go." Miss Margot ran over and stood in front of Joseph and cried, "No, not him, he has hasn't done anything!" One of the soldiers yelled, "Be quiet and get out the way old lady their only being taken a labor camp. Then he knocked her to the floor with the butt of his gun. Willy gasped for air and Anna dashed over to help her up. The officer smirked with

In early November, the Gamzers and their neighbors, the Holtzmans, were forced to share one room of a tiny too-room house in the city's north side. Two other families had to share the other room. All together they dug a secret tunnel that led to a hiding place, so the Nazis couldn't find them when there would be another aktzia. They used it several times, but after a while Luncias father realized it wouldn't be save for her, so he made arrangements that she could live with the non-Jewish Mrs. Szczygiel and her family. Living there, she was never allowed to go out or even go near to a window, always had to be hidden, cause hosting Jews means dead. Even after the family decided to not host her anymore, because they were afraid to lose their lifes, Mrs. Szczygiel tried to hide her in a wooden trunk. One day though, one of her daughter found her hiding in there and the truth was out. Actually this was the best thing that could've happened to Luncia, because a day after that Mrs. Zczygiel brought her to the Ojaks, the family that was hosting her

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.

Set in 1942 during World War II, Sarah was just a little girl when she and her parents got taken away by the French police. She hid her younger brother in a closet and promised him she’d come back. De Rosnay added the promise Sarah made to her brother to make the reader wonder if she will ever get back to him. The struggles Sarah starts going through at her age gives the audience a sense of sympathy for her. As soon as she gets separated from her parents, the author makes the story take an unexpected turn that the reader should not anticipate. As Sarah begins to be on her own, this makes De Rosnay’s audience want to keep up with the

This book is about the Ten Boom family and their Christian journey through the Holocaust in which they would hide jews inside their house. The setting begins in Haarlem, Holland, in 1937 and takes place in the Ten Boom residence. There are many people in the family. First there is Mama Ten Boom she died from a stroke and had tuberculosis(pg7), then there is Casper Ten Boom which is Corrie's father. He was a watchmaker his whole life. Betsie Ten Boom which is corrie's older sister. Then there is Corrie she is the narrator of her own autobiography and she is dutch. Corrie soon went to prison for having Jews in her house. Then the book ends with Corrie ten Boom’s death in Orange County, California on April

During Holocaust millions of people were slaughtered by Nazi German soldiers, and aircrafts. While in hiding Anne had a small radio that told the story of the Holocaust day by day. Constantly hearing bombs being dropped, machine guns firing in the "Secret Annex. " One day Anne describes a horrific story of the outside world, "We assume that most of them are being murdered. The English radio speaks of their being gassed" Anne who is just a thirteen year old Jewish girl is forced to hear about her friends and family being gassed and tourtured in concentration camps.

After losing her mother and brother she is scared of what awaits for her in her new adoptive home. Given the circumstances during the rise of the Nazi’s during World War II, forces the new family

Her sister was in a body cast because of her medical conditions so the Germans were going to come back for Jeannine’s mother and sister. That’s just what they did but they escaped to a hospital that was not German occupied. Jeannine’s mother then became a nurse at that hospital. A week later her father was taken to a concentration camp by the Germans.

It was 1942 in Frankfurt, Germany and you could almost make out the smell of the cold winter air. World War II was uprising and the Nazis were scattered all over Germany, they were taking hundreds of thousands of Jews each day. They were being taken to camps that no one ever returned from. The only people who did end up surviving, were those who escaped, and the stories that were being told by the escapers were a living horror story. In a small house, which was a faded blue color with missing roof pieces and slightly cracked windows, was a Jewish family of six with only two bedrooms to share and a living room that could barely fit three people. The parents, Claudia and Bruno, had both lost their job. They barely had enough food for two meals

This story takes place in the small town of Jenkinsville, Arkansas, during World War II. The main character of the story is Patty Bergen. Patty is a 12-year old girl with tomboyish characteristics. It is summer time, and all of her friends are away at church camp, while Patty is on her own. Patty’s family is the only Jewish family in town, which makes her often feel alone.