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prisoner b-3087, Krakow, Poland, Plaszow Concentration Camp, Wielzcka Salt…
prisoner b-3087
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Sneaking out with his Father, Yanek smells the fresh aroma of bread. Uncle Abraham and Aunt Fela were making bread in secret. Uncle Abraham gives Yanek and his Father a whole sack of bread. ¨A whole sack of bread, just for us!¨I almost moaned at the thought of such a feast. In this sentence, this shows that the jews had little ration in the war, and having a sack of bread was such a privilege for Yanek. Yaneks light in the darkness was recieving bread.
Yanek didn't give up in the concentration camp. Yanek discovers a hidden floorboard, and guides two other boys under the board and remain there for a week to regain their strength. ¨The more we hid under the floor, the stronger we got. We werent healthy, but our bodies recovered a little.¨ This sentence shows that Yanek found his light in the darkness by hiding under the floorboard, so they can regain their strength.
¨Finally I pulled them out onto the roof and showed them the little pigeon coop.. While my father and I worked to clean the coop, my mother sat on the roof and sewed hidden pockets.¨ This paragraph tells us about Yanek finding the pigeon coop. This is a good example of a light in the darkness.
¨I scooped snow from the grate. My thin fingers were so cold they were blue. I shoved the snow in my mouth like a toddler eating cake. My throat was so dry I gagged on it. but I forced the melting snow down. It was water, wonderful water! Not even a pastry at the corner bakery on Lwowska street had ever tasted so good.¨ This shows that Yanek found snow/water, which also revolves back into him finding light in the darkness. he finds the snow in the cattle car and eats it since he doesn't have anything left.
When Yanek and the other prisoners were loaded into the gas chambers, Yanek didnt care about living anymore. He just wanted all of this to pass. ¨What are you waiting for?¨ I cried. Kill me! I give up! You win!¨ but the rattling sounds of the pipes turned out to be water. Water cleansing them. ¨Water! Not gas! I was going to live!¨ This states that Yanek was still given a chance to live. This is an example of light in the darkness.
Yanek finding Fred was light in the darkness. Fred was Yaneks only friend.¨I just loved talking again. Being human.¨ Until the nazis beat up Fred and hung him. Being friends with Fred was Yaneks light in the darkness, but that got taken away instantly.
Yanek and the other prisoners trudged along the snow. Bundles of prisoners bodies were left along the way. But then one of the prisoners began to sing. ¨He was Czech.¨ Then many other people from different languages started singing along aswell. That brought light in the darkness because singing brought their moods slightly up, by singing along while walking to death.
¨So I sipped at the soup. It was nothing better than flavored water, but it was warm.So blessedly warm! The bread I couldnt eat. I clung to it like a precious jewel.¨ This example is a light in the darkness, since Yanek clutches his bread.
¨Ẅe were fed the thickest, richest soup I had ever eaten in six years. I was so thin and miserable I thought I could gain weight just from the smell alone..I ran as fast as i could. I had to win this race. I had to get out of bergen belsen. I had to get away from moonface."These examples show light in the darkness because Yanek is fed the thickest soup in years, and Yanek has to prove he is strong enough by racing against prisoners.
¨Any day now, the prisoners whispered among one another¨ The allies will be in Berlin. And we will be free.¨ This shows light in the darkness because the prisoners still have hope about the allies saving them.
¨Farther inside Czechoslovakia, some of the villagers hung out of their windows to throw out whatever they had to us. Crusts of bread, half eaten apples, raw potatoes. The Czechs culdnt share much, there was a war, after all. But their kindness in their face of the Nazi soldiers and their guns warmed my heart.¨ This shows light in the darkness because the czechs feel pity for the prisoners so they donate their food even though they are rationing aswell.
¨There arent any guards!¨ He tolds us. ¨I dont see any guards!¨"What trick was this? I coukdnt believe it.. ¨The grim reality set in. we were free, but we were still Jews in a land that hated us, that had stolen every thing we owned and had taken from our families and put us in camps and cremated our bodies.. The Allies have reached us at last. I fell to my knees and wept. Had I really made it?¨
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Yanek discovers that the man has salt rubbed all over his wounds. Yanek thinks of Abimelech in the book of Judges, who sowed the fields of his people with salt after he put down their rebellion. Yanek thinks that this is “punishment and purification, all in one.
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