Survivors
Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps by Andrea Warren and The Devil’s Arithmetic by Jane Yolen are both similar and different. Jack Mandelbaum from Surviving Hitler, a non-fiction book and Hanna from the Devil’s Arithmetic, a historical novel, experienced the terror and fear of death in concentration camps.
Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps is about a boy that lived in Poland with his family. He and his family were forced to move into a ghetto, a crowded, poor neighborhood for Jews. Because Jack was working as a carpenter, he was sent to a concentration camp to work. Instead of being killed. Jack survived all the horrors with the help of a friend he made in the camp.
Hanna, in the book The Devil’s Arithmetic is a girl who spent the Passover Seder with her relatives. She was bored and didn’t want to hear the adult’s stories of the war again. When it was time to follow the Jewish custom of opening the door for Elijah, the prophet, Hanna magically travelled back in 1942 to a Polish village where she lived with her uncle and aunt. They called her Chaya. Chaya was so confused about the changes but she was stuck with her family and acted like she was this person, to keep safe. Unfortunately, Chaya and her relatives were taken to a concentration camp. Fortunately, Chaya remembered learning about this in school and was able to calm everyone down so they could listen to her directions. Hanna was motivated to survive by the help of her aunt.
Jack and Hanna both were spoiled, young teenagers who never thought terrible things would happen to them. Both were taken to concentration camps in Poland. They each had someone watching over them and helping them to get food and water. They both talked about their families a lot. They both were determined to stay alive and encourage others to keep on trying and not to give up.
Jack survived his camp and grew up to have his own family. Hanna was about to be killed in her camp but was teleported back to her sedar table, and no one even knew she had been “gone”. Jack moved to America and went to schools to teach children about the holocaust. Hanna didn’t grow up in the story. She looked at her relatives in a different way and was now interested to hear her family stories and the Jewish people’s history.
In conclusion Hanna and Jack both saw terrible things that terrified them. Every day they saw someone die in the concentration camps. They kept alive and kept loving themselves and remembering their families.
Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps by Andrea Warren and The Devil’s Arithmetic by Jane Yolen are both similar and different. Jack Mandelbaum from Surviving Hitler, a non-fiction book and Hanna from the Devil’s Arithmetic, a historical novel, experienced the terror and fear of death in concentration camps.
Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps is about a boy that lived in Poland with his family. He and his family were forced to move into a ghetto, a crowded, poor neighborhood for Jews. Because Jack was working as a carpenter, he was sent to a concentration camp to work. Instead of being killed. Jack survived all the horrors with the help of a friend he made in the camp.
Hanna, in the book The Devil’s Arithmetic is a girl who spent the Passover Seder with her relatives. She was bored and didn’t want to hear the adult’s stories of the war again. When it was time to follow the Jewish custom of opening the door for Elijah, the prophet, Hanna magically travelled back in 1942 to a Polish village where she lived with her uncle and aunt. They called her Chaya. Chaya was so confused about the changes but she was stuck with her family and acted like she was this person, to keep safe. Unfortunately, Chaya and her relatives were taken to a concentration camp. Fortunately, Chaya remembered learning about this in school and was able to calm everyone down so they could listen to her directions. Hanna was motivated to survive by the help of her aunt.
Jack and Hanna both were spoiled, young teenagers who never thought terrible things would happen to them. Both were taken to concentration camps in Poland. They each had someone watching over them and helping them to get food and water. They both talked about their families a lot. They both were determined to stay alive and encourage others to keep on trying and not to give up.
Jack survived his camp and grew up to have his own family. Hanna was about to be killed in her camp but was teleported back to her sedar table, and no one even knew she had been “gone”. Jack moved to America and went to schools to teach children about the holocaust. Hanna didn’t grow up in the story. She looked at her relatives in a different way and was now interested to hear her family stories and the Jewish people’s history.
In conclusion Hanna and Jack both saw terrible things that terrified them. Every day they saw someone die in the concentration camps. They kept alive and kept loving themselves and remembering their families.