Analysis Of Survivors: True Stories Of Children Of The Holocaust

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The book Survivors: True Stories of Children of the Holocaust by Allan Zullo is about various children and their experience being in the Holocaust. Each chapter is a new story with different characters and different journeys. In the Holocaust, many people died and few survived, those who did live tell their stories every day and each anecdote is different. The Holocaust was a very cruel event many people lost their loved ones. Others got hurt physically and emotionally. Nobody trusted anybody everyone became insecure and selfish because most people betrayed others to get on the Nazis good side. What can I learn about life from stories? I can learn about my life from stories by reading and really understanding the words right in front of me.

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