Time Travels: Unearthing Holocaust Memories in The Devil's Arithmetic

432 Words1 Page

My book The Devil's Arithmetic By Jane Yolen is about a girl named Hannah stern who is a young Jewish girl living in New Rochelle, NY. She and her family, including her parents and younger brother Aaron are to in a Seder at her grandparent's home. Hannah does not want to be at the seder. She is tired of hearing about the past and is uncomfortable listening to her Grandpa Will talk about his experiences in the concentration camp." We are all monsters because we are letting it happen."-Hannah page 141 When Hannah gets up from the table to open the door for the prophet Elijah, she is transported to Poland in about the 1940`s. There she sees the life of Chaya Abramowicz. She insists that her name is Hannah and that she lives in America but Chaya's On their way to the village they are stopped by Nazi soldiers who says they must come with them to be relocated. Hannah is the only one who knows what is actually about to happen. She tries to explain why they must not go with the soldiers but the adults explain that they have no choice. They are loaded in trucks and drove off to a train station where they are gathered into cars with barely any room to breathe. The ride on the train lasts for days and several children and infants do not live After that hannah and others survive and go to a concentration camp where there are given food and some shelter. Hannah meets this girl who tells her to try not to get picked for the extermination they live their life being cushions and not getting caught or in other words taken. This story goes on talking about the past in the concentration camp all of a sudden Hannah is back in the dining room table and notices the tattoo on Aunt Eva's arm and recognizes it. She says the numerical significance of the number to Aunt Eva who says that when she was young she was known by another name Rivka. After coming to America many of the survivors changed their names. Grandpa Will, Eva's brother, was known as Wolfe before. She tells Hannah that to them only Gitl and Yitzchak survived the

Show More
Related

  • Historical Accuracy Of The Film 'Walking With The Enemy'

    711 Words  | 2 Pages

    They realize that the Germans have arrested many Jewish people in the recent past and they think it would be smart to go back to their hometown. When they got to their hometown, Germans then came and made them leave their family and go to labor camps. Once all the young man had left the village the Nazis took over the town taking the people and putting them in the camps also where they would be put to death. Alec and Ben than escaped their camp and went back to their hometown where they and nobody was there. They realize how bad this was, so they set off to find their family. Alec then goes and disguises himself as a Nazi SS officer and not only finds out the whereabouts of his family but also a lot

    Read More

  • The Clockwork Three Analysis

    88 Words  | 1 Pages

    These are the main points to the story. Hannah found a cure for her father's disease. She needs to help heal her father's leg or doctors will amputate.This is very important to Hannah. She wants to find the treasure and give all of the money to help heal her father. Another point is

    Read More

  • Hanneke Bakker: Black Market Delivery Girl

    262 Words  | 1 Pages

    A Dutch girl named Hanneke Bakker is working as a black market delivery girl during World War II, as a small rebellion against the Nazis for killing her boyfriend, Bas. While delivering sausages to Mrs. Janssen, Hanneke was asked to find a Jewish schoolgirl, named Mirjam Roodvelt, who she was hiding in her secret room behind the pantry from the Nazis. Although she disapproves of the idea, she knows that this would be something Bas would want her to do. Hanneke decided to trespass Mirjam’s school but was caught by a secretary named Judith and had to make up a lie about trying to find pictures of Bas. A few days later, Hanneke finds Ollie, Bas’ older brother, waiting in her living room to talk to her about why she was at the Jewish School. After

    Read More

  • Compare And Contrast The Devil's Arithmetic

    359 Words  | 1 Pages

    There are many similarities and differences in the book Devil’s Arithmetic and the movie. One thing is for certain, the theme in both the book and the movie are the same.

    Read More

  • Devil's Arithmetic

    310 Words  | 1 Pages

    The book starts out with Hannah at a friends house before the Passover and she asked her mother if she had to go to the Passover because she had already had a lot to eat at her friend's house. When the nazis came to the town they were right in the wedding and they were about to get married. On the way to the camps there were a lot of people that died on the way there and there was

    Read More

  • Alley Youth Zone: A Short Story

    1010 Words  | 3 Pages

    A girl named Mary and her brother are struggling to take care of the babies, and toddlers that are in the daycare. Mary tries to find Sam for help but when she learns that he had left she enlists the help of Howard and his bully friend Orc to get supplies.

    Read More

  • Gustave's Black Radishes

    566 Words  | 2 Pages

    When Fall started Gustave started school he was worried kids would find out he was Jewish and he wouldn't have friends, Gustave always missed playing with Jean-Paul and Marcel. At school Gustave made a friend, her name was Nicole there family helped people get across from the occuplated zone to the unoccupied zone they said they would help Gustaves family get their Aunt and Cousins over. When the day came that Gustave and his father were going to pick up his family they were very nervous, if they got caught sneaking people into the other side they could get killed. They got through the bridge and headed to the farm where they were staying when they got there they said hello and hugged. But then they had to put them in the back of the truck and make sure they were hidden out of site and very quiet. As they were approaching the bridge they were noticing something different, they were doing more thou searches with the vehicles. Gustave's father was very nervous that they were going to get caught but lucky when they got to the truck they didn't even search it and let them by. When they got to the house and knew they were safe the hole family hughes and ate and talked about what had happened throughout the year. In the next couple of weeks of catching up the family was going to go to America were they could be safe and away from the

    Read More

  • Quotes For Beautiful By Amy Reed

    790 Words  | 2 Pages

    Cassie ends up losing all of her friends and everyone who she thought would bring her happiness. ”’I don’t know what they do with the bodies.’ Bodies. A body. Not Sarah. Just another girl’s body that is not useful anymore” (Reed 224). Sarah, her best friend, committed suicide because no one showed her that they cared about her including Sarah’s mom. Hitler ends up killing himself after realizing soldiers were coming for him, he was a coward. ”Adolf Hitler, dictator of Germany, burrowed away in a refurbished air-raid shelter, consumes a cyanide capsule, then shoots himself with a pistol, on this day in 1945, as his ‘1,000-year’ Reich collapses above him” (History 1). Hitler was a coward and chose to take his own life because of the bad decisions he made. Cassie is depressed for the longest time and ends up moving schools. ”For now, there is only a new school in a new city, new teachers, new students who never knew who I was before”(Reed 227). She was so upset with her situation she moved. Every choice has a consequence and in their cases the consequence was bad.

    Read More

  • Comparison Of Anne Blankman's Prisoner Of Night And Fog

    465 Words  | 1 Pages

    My book Prisoner of Night and Fog by Anne Blankman is in the 1930s Munich about a girl named Gretchen Muller who falls in love with a Jewish reporter named Daniel Cohen.You might think thats so lovely but it’s not.Her uncle Dolf who is Adolf Hitler,he can’t stand the Jews he want the to be demolished and neither can her brother Reinhard,how I know is because one day Gretchen,Reinhard and his friend Kurt was going to the café to meet their uncle Dolf but on the way their Reinhard and his friend stopped and assaulted a Jew man when Gretchen tried to stop them her brother called her a ‘Jew Lover’.Gretchen lives in a boarding house with her mother.Gretchen wants to become a doctor but her dream will be on hold when her mom would want to get a full

    Read More

  • Elie Wiesel Diary

    2122 Words  | 5 Pages

    She locks the door behind her and waits for several seconds starring in the darkness trying to hear any movements. Kelsey walks across the room with her pistol ready, finger on the trigger. Just as she gazes out the window watching flames arise on the horizon, spot light's beam the building causing the room to shine bright. Kelsey turns around and glimpses the Nazi Leader pointing a handgun at the pimple between her eyebrows. Kelsey lowers her pistol to the ground and holds her hands to the sky. The Nazi Leader speaks in some form of German which becomes inaudible for Kelsey to understand. Then a water droplet falls from Kelsey’s face and she begins to say a prayer. She speaks aloud to cause the leader to lose his focus on what he should be doing, killing her. Conversation comes up through the question of Kelsey asking the leader why he has started this movement once again. The leader replies “I chose to eliminate the weaker humans in our society. With those people gone, our community and world can develop to the next level.” Kelsey decides to yell at the leader while tears running down her face that the leader is wrong to think like that. She believes that everyone was put on this planet for a reason to contribute to society. And that the purpose of the jews might not be prevalent right now, but they will find their spot in society soon. As soon as the argument ceases and tension in the room intensifies, the family Kelsey saved in the woods barges through the door and open fires on the Nazi Leader. Multiple bullets slice through the leader’s body like tissue paper. His body collapses to the ground with a bang and silence strikes the room. Everyone looks around and checks themselves for unnoticeable bullet wounds that might not have stricken them. After all body parts are clean of bullet scratches, they all surround one another with tears of joy knowing

    Read More

  • Surviving Hitler Essay

    698 Words  | 2 Pages

    The Silber Medal winning biography, “Surviving Hitler," written by Andrea Warren paints picture of life for teenagers during the Holocaust, mainly by telling the story of Jack Mandelbaum. Avoiding the use of historical analysis, Warren, along with Mandelbaum’s experiences, explains how Jack, along with a few other Jewish and non-Jewish people survived.

    Read More

  • Identity And Family In The Devil's Arithmetic Poem

    372 Words  | 1 Pages

    Like many Jews during the Holocaust, Hannah was robbed of her identity. Hannah starts to notices that when the women get their hair cut off, they are hard to tell apart. The lack of individuality was something the Nazi’s wanted to help dehumanize the Jewish population. The narrator states “But as the scissors snip-snapped through her hair and the razor shaved the rest, she realized with

    Read More

  • The Devil's Arithmetic Novel

    575 Words  | 2 Pages

    The Devil’s Arithmetic novel and movie have noticeable similarities and differences. Characters, plot and perspectives all differ. Although I prefer the book, it is well-written and has a better plot, both show us that we need to honor those who survived this tragic time, and punish those who did wrong. We need to learn from our mistakes and treat others as we want to be treated. In the camps, they suffer, and are treated as if they aren’t human. Both book and movie state that clearly. Ages are mixed up, parts are discluded, but the message is clear; remember.

    Read More

  • The Book Thief: Liesel Meminger's Life

    1142 Words  | 3 Pages

    Unfortunately, there was an air raid that killed Hans, Rosa, Rudy, and everyone else in the block. When she was rescued from the rubble, she find’s Rudy’s dead body and finally gives him the kiss he’s always wanted. When she is taken away, she leaves her finished book, “The Book Thief”. Death rescues the book and waits to give it to Liesel when she is no longer alive. The Mayor and Ilsa Hermann then take Liesel in to live with them after she has no one left. When the concentration camps were liberated, Liesel was helping Rudy’s father. She was then surprised by a visit from Max. They hugged and cried together. When Liesel grows up, she moves to Australia, where Death finally takes her. When she dies, Death shows her the book she wrote many years ago in her 33 Himmel Street

    Read More

  • Your Name Is Renee Sparknotes

    1706 Words  | 4 Pages

    The memoir starts off by illustrating the life of this girl, Ruth. She is a young, Jewish girl living in France during the second World War. the author, all throughout the memoir, but specifically during this section, does a brilliant job at explaining

    Read More

More about Time Travels: Unearthing Holocaust Memories in The Devil's Arithmetic

Open Document