Q4,Peirod 1, Miller, Justin, Prisoner B-3087 Alan Gratz
How can Realistic Fiction novels help us learn about, honor and remember victims of the Holocaust?
Part 1
Krakow, Poland 1939-1942
Part 2
Plaszow Concentration Camp 1942-1943
Wieliczka Salt Mine 1943-1944
Trzebinia Concentration Camp 1944
Birkenau Concentration Camp
Auschwitz Concentration Camp 1945
Part 3
Death March 1945
Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp 1945
Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp 1945
Buchenwald Concentration Camp 1945
Death March 1945
Gross-Rosen Concentration Camp 1945
Dachau Concentration Camp 1945
Munich 1945
Yanek- He is the main Character-Jewish boy he is 13 turning 14- as the germans have been in his town he has become more of a man and he is learning how to survive
Rising Action
Vocab- Judenrat - Jewish person who is forced to work alongside the Nazi’s in the ghettos
Bar Mitzvah- the religious initiation ceremony of a Jewish boy who has reached the age of 13 and is regarded as ready to observe religious precepts and eligible to take part in public worship
synagogue- the building where a Jewish assembly or congregation meets for religious worship and instruction.
THEME- Trying to maintain Identity- "they can't take away who we are"
The main conflict is that Yanek and his family are living under Nazi control and are avoiding being taken from the ghetto
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