Passover Seder: Summary And Analysis

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Hannah stern is a young Jewish girl living in the present day (time of publication: 1980). She is bored by her relatives stories about the past, is not looking forward to the Passover Seder, and is tired of her religion. When Hannah symbolically opens the door for the prophet Elijah, she is transported back in time to 1942 Poland during World War II. At the time and place, the people believe she is Chaya Abramowicz. who is recovering from cholera, the fever that killed Chaya's parents a few months ago. The strange remarks Hannah/Chaya, makes about he future and hter inability to recognize her aunt GItl and uncle Shmuel and are blame on the fever. At her uncle's wedding, the Nazis come to transport the entire population of the village to a …show more content…

Shifre tries to reassure the guard they have been working, but he takes them away and leaves Hannah by herself. As the three are about to leave, Hannah takes Rivka's place by putting on her babushka. Since the guards don't know their faces, this goes unnoticed by the officer. The women are led to the gas chamber. She is then transported back to her family's Seder. Aunt Eva calls her over, Hannah looks at Aunt Eva's number; it is the same as Rivka's. Hannah (when she was Chaya) was really the woman she was named after, Rivka was Aunt Eva, and Rivka's brother, Wolfe, was Grandpa Will. (Aunt Eva said taht they changed their names when they got to America.) The resolution at the end of the novel reveals that when the camp was free the survivors were Girl (weighing only seventy three pounds), Yitzchak, Rivka, and Leye (a worker in the camp) and her baby. Gitl and Yizchak emigrate to Israel where Yitzchak becomes a politician while Gitl organizes a rescue mission that is dedicated to saving the lives of young surivors and locating family members. the organization is named after Chaya, her niece that dies a

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