As I said in my last post In my ELA class I am reading a book called Because of Romek, A Holocaust Survivor’s Memoir. It’s a very interesting and captivating book, I always end up wondering what will happen next. It is in perspective of a young boy named David, and him and his family struggle to get away and seek refuge from the infamous nazi party. There are many ups and downs in this book, so it will always keep you interested. One thing ive noticed while reading this book is that it has some connections with our current day. One example is prejudice on other people that are not like us. The germans sent millions of people to labor camps because they didn’t hold up to the “perfect Aryan Race”. Theres also prejudice and stereotyping and things like that in our present day, but it’s on a lower scale than back then. Another example is discrimination of other cultures. For some odd reason the human race can’t accept that people are different than us so as far back as history records we have always treated people differently for their skin color or religion or political view. Why? It beats me.
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In my ELA class i am currently reading a book called Because of Romek: A Holocaust Survivor’s Memoir, by David Faber. As you may tell from the title it’s about a young boy and his jewish family trying to make it in the holocaust. I am several chapters in and I am really enjoying it, it’s very suspenseful and sometimes sad and also frightening. The holocaust lasted from around 1933 to 1945, it was when the nazi’s treated jews and other groups (polish people, gypsies, african americans, homosexuals, etc) very poorly and unfairly by putting them in labor camps and concentration camps. Around 6 million jews were killed during this time, and pretty much all of them were innocent. It was truly a horrible time in history and it will be remembered forever. This links with my book because my book is about a jewish family escaping the nazis and the father gets put in a labor camp for a little but escapes soon after. It takes place in Poland, soon after the nazis took control of it. A lot of the things that happen in my book compare to real life historical events because it’s a memoir of a holocaust survivor so the author has experienced it for himself. |
Authormy name is sam and I am an 8th grader at martin middle school Archives
April 2018
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