Character The main character of the story is 10-year-old Yanek Gruener. He is an adolescent Jewish boy living in 1930s Poland during World War Two. Although he sees the very worst of people he still manages to find that one sliver of good in every person. Throughout the novel, he has to fight to maintain his will to survive. The story is based on a real man who now travels the world telling his survival story. At the beginning of the war, he and his family are forced to live with four other families in the Krakow ghetto. He is kicked out of his school and his friends turn on him. He is no longer allowed to do the things he was allowed to do before. On some nights Yanek would assist his father in making bread for the family. Eventually, he and his family are sent to different concentration camps. He never sees his parents again. At the end of the war, Yanek went to ten different camps. Among these included Auschwitz, where he came face to face with the …show more content…
The German dictator Adolf Hitler said the Jews were to blame for this. The Nazis believed Germans were racially superior and that the Jews were secondary in regard to what they believed in. Although they mostly addressed Jews, they also targeted Roma Gypsies, the disabled and the Slavic community which included Poles and Russians. By 1945, millions of Jews were exterminated as part of what they called the Final Solution. In the early years of the Nazi regime, they established concentration camps originally used to imprison prisoners of war. But as the war raged on, SS and police officials put Jews, Gypsies and other racially impure people inside these camps to be worked or gassed. The crimes committed during the Holocaust completely devastated the European Jewish community. In 1933 the Jewish population stood at over nine million only to be diminished to little more than 3 million. Yanek who now goes by Jack travels the world telling his
Prisoner B-3087 was an intense story about a ten-year old boys will to survive during World War Ⅱ. Throughout the story we are brought through ghettos, concentration camps, death marches, and work camps that are all made up with the intention of wiping out the population of Jews. Each place he ends up is worse than the last they have less food, stricter staff, and harder work. The only way to survive is to work and be invisible because if you stand out you are a threat and you will be killed. Yanek, the ten-year old boy who tells this story is surrounded by death. His entire family is wiped out by the Nazis, but he must survive, he will not let them take his life. He succeeds with much determination and follows his dreams to america where
caracter Yanek is a young 10 year old boy. Yanek Gruener was a jew, and Hitler was telling Germans that jews were the reason about all the problems that were going on at that time. Yanek Gruener was having a happy life until the Natiz came and invaded Germany. Yanek and all the other jews were banned from school, stores, libraries, and more. Yanek had to stop going to school because he wasn't allowed.
After the Holocaust on May 8th, 1945, a book called Maus was released which is revolved around survival. The author, Art Spiegelman intended the story was to reflect upon his past and express his feelings world how he had to deal life was at the time.The book is a story of Art’s father named Vladek, he tells his point-of-view to the world to show multiple struggles he had to withstand. The theme of Art Spiegelman’s book Maus is survival; Art Spiegelman shows the theme of survival by using tone, mood, and point-of-view throughout the graphic novel. Vladek is the main character of Maus and shares his point of view. Vladek tells a true story about how he survived the Holocaust and the things he had to accomplish to make it through alive. This book is based on a true story of what had happened during the Holocaust.
This novel was based on the true story of a boy named Yanek Gruener and how he defied all the odds of being a Jew in Poland during the infamous World War II.
January 30, 1933 started the calamity that would result in the mass murder of some six million Jews. It occurred in all countries that the Germans, also known as Nazis, occupied during World War 2, including Germany and Poland. Jews were sent to enclosed ghettos where they were given insufficient amounts of food and were in unsanitary conditions. By the time of 1945, the Germans and their collaborators killed nearly two out of every three European Jews as part of the “Final Solution”, for their plan was to wipe out the Jewish people. Jews were sent to death camps of which they were put into gas chambers and killed. Many died from malnutrition. It was the time of genocide, of mass destruction. To the leader Adolf Hitler, Jews were considered a threat to German racial purity and community. They were an inferior
Characters: Their isn’t many characters in the book because they all get killed off except one. That person is Yanek. He is a very kind kid but desperate
Before the beginning of World War II the Nazi party took over in Germany. At its head was a man named Adolf Hitler. For some reason Hitler hated the Jews, we see this in World War II with the Holocaust. The Holocaust started in 1933 when Hitler rose to power; he made a plan in 1941 which was to eradicate the whole Jewish population. Hitler called this plan the “Final Solution” (An Introductory History of The Holocaust). Why did Hitler and the Nazis single out the Jews for genocide? And in what ways did the Nazis single them out?
The story is a documentary but in a cartoon, comic type of way and is like an adventure that makes you just reflect about your life and back then. LIfe was a struggle to survive during the war if you were a Jew for they would hunt you down. Also it just reflects on feeling of how you would feel if you lost your family and all you had, even if you were rich and wealthy you would be treated like less than a human. The book leaves you thinking on many concepts and it's true how could a human be treated as less just because of your religion.
The rumors were the people taken were killed or went to the camps but you didn’t know for sure until you were on the truck. Yanek was soon taken away to a concentration camp shortly after his parents were trucked away. After Yanek was trucked away he stopped at multiple concentration camps where people were killed daily. He could see in plain sight around 30 dead. There were additional rumors even more people were made into soap for the Nazis. At approximately age 14, Yanek finished his first concentration camp. He was then moved to Auschwitz, the most well known camp. Yanek met lots of people at the camp despite his uncle telling him not talk to anyone because it could get you killed, Yanek made friends but soon after he made friends Yanek would watch them be killed. After he had been in concentration camps for years and he could hear guns and bombs in the distance and growing closer every day. When he was at his tenth camp, Yanek was barely alive. He wondered if he could survive additional years in the Nazi camps. He questioned whether he might be shot or turned into soap for
In the final years of the war, Himmler and Eichmann proposed the concept to place the Jewish people in camps and eliminate the rest of the Jewish people before the war was over; this concept was known as the “Final Solution.” These SS soldiers are the main cause of the Holocaust because they were the group that fully helped consummate Hitler’s idea to remove the Jewish people out of Germany and, in the end, they gave the orders to mass murder any Jew alive.
Protagonists: The main protagonists in the story are Misha, Janina, Uri, and Dr. Kroczak. Misha is an orphan boy about 8 years old, who lives in the streets and steals food. Janina is a jewish girl, about 7 years old, and lives with her family. Uri is a jewish boy who met Misha and helped him until he went to the ghetto. Dr. Kroczak is an older man who owns an orphanage and was later later sent to ghetto.. The relationship between these characters are that Misha and Janina are siblings but not blood or adopted related. Janina’s father offered Misha to go
Hitler took this hatred he possessed for the Jews and his pursues of Aryan supremacy to an extensive degree. Between 1939-1945 Hitler took action, extermination, or death camps were established for the sole purpose of killing men, women, and children. Jews were not the only victims of the Nazis during World War II, The Nazis also imprisoned and killed people who opposed their regime on grounds of their ideology; Roma (Gypsies); Germans who were mentally impaired or physically disabled; homosexuals; and captured Soviet soldiers. Heinous crimes inflicted upon the prisoners within the concentration camps and during Hitler’s reign were intense beyond belief. So called camp doctors would torture and inflict incredible suffering on Jewish children, Gypsy children and many others. Patients were put
Anti-semitism in Germany led by Adolf Hitler would back up a plan called the final solution, to exterminate all of the Jews in Europe. Out of the 100 million Jews aimed for extermination, 6 million of them were killed. On his path to German greatness, Jews became victim to inconceivable actions. First the Nuremberg Laws were passed which stripped Jews of their german citizenship, eliminating their opportunity to flee to other countries. After Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass, Hitler forcefully deported Jewish people into fenced confinements called ghettos. More Jews died here than in any extermination camp due to the harsh conditions and labor. Most people living in ghettos had no access to running water or a sewage system and overcrowding
The Nazis, who came to power in Germany in January 1933, believed that Germans were "racially superior" and that the Jews, considered "inferior," were a major risk to the Germans. They came up with a plan called “The Final Solution” to murder all the Jews in Europe. It all began with their leader, Adolf
There’s a few characters to note in this story. There’s Mrs. McIntyre, the widow that runs the farm the Guizacs flee to. There’s the Guizacs, a family fleeing Poland after World War II, seeking solace for their family. There’s Sulk, a black man that has been