The Devils Arithmetic Summary

Hannah and her family are now sent to the concentration camps. She keeps telling them what is going to happen next but nobody listen to her.  Hannah has to through some tuff times. The German's make the people work so hard that their arms almost fall of. They only feed them potato soup and cold hard bread.  Jews are dying faster than fly's. The Germans are burning them in the smokestack or killing them in the gas chamber. Every week the general come in the camp and chooses people whether they die or they stay alive. Hannah has to try to convince the Jews to fight back and not be bystanders. She has to tell them whats is going to happen next if they want to live. 




A connection that I made was that I went to a Holocaust museum and I saw how people where being treated at the concentration camp. I saw how they killed the Jews. It was a genocide. We had the chance to talk to a Holocaust surviver. She talked about how everybody had to wear a Jewish star and that her parents sent her and her sister to a another person that would take them. After the war the parents came back for her and lived a happy live. 

The Devil's Arithmetic Summary

So far in my book the main character is Hannah.  She is a Jew. Her whole family is celebrating passover. Which is a type of tradition that involves a lot of food and prayers. Hannah hates all this celebration stuff. She has a brother named Aron. When celebration your suppose to drink some wine. Hannah has a little to much fun and gets dizzy. Then her grandpa tells her to open the door for Elijah. Which is a tradition they also do. When she opens the door there is no one there. Then she starts dreaming with all that wine. She goes in almost another dimension into a Polish Village. The years turn into 1942. Everyone calls here "Chaya".there. She doesn't know what it means.  Soon the Nazis take her and all the villagers away. Only Hannah knows what awaits.

One sign post that I found in my book was Again & Again. People kept saying Chaya to Hannah. I believe it has a meaning to it. I believe it means life and beauty. I think they keep calling her that because she has a meaning to be there in the Holocaust. She knows what happen in the past now she is going to help the people escape from the camps and help them survive.

Holocaust Review

There were a lot of bystanders during the Holocaust but the true heroes where the up standers. I think many people stood by and watched the Holocaust take place for many reasons. First probably the people were scared of getting caught by the Nazis. If you hid a Jew and the Nazis found out you will get killed with the rest of them. Second they probably thought they couldn't do nothing about the problem. They felt like their words or action wouldn't do anything to stop such a big problem. Third probably the people didn't care about the problem. They were doing nothing about it. They could of helped little by little but instead they didn't do nothing. They made the problem grow bigger.  

I think the people that did stand up were heroes. They risked their life's to help other in need. They probably couldn't take the idea of people just getting killed for their race. They had to step up and take action. If I were living in that time period I would try to hide some Jews in my house or gather some of the Jews and take them long away for them to be safe. I will also take out all the propaganda from the streets so the Jews won't feel bad.