BLOG FIVE!

No Pretty Pictures 

Anita Lobel       

       Well, Anita has been rescued from the concentration camp and taken to a sanatorium as they found out they have tuberculosis. Anita and her brother both have tuberculosis and in the sanatorium are separated by gender so they are not together but in the same building. Anita is at first teased for her hair being shaved since it was required in her concentration camp, she can barely speak Swedish and understand it, she feels isolated from the other girls. Soon after she begins adapting to the language, and grows more hair, she is treated well. She begins to love the sanatorium and dreads to have to leave now that she no longer has tuberculosis.  I can reflect about Anita loving the sanatorium because she has been through so many hardships and she finally settled down in a place where people care for her now.

       The Note and Notice I chose is Memory Moment. A memory moment given in the book is when she being rescued and food is being given to her as well as a treat of chocolate. Well she remembers before the war of herself eating chocolate and her fathers chocolate factory. She remember her father telling her she’d study somewhere good in Sweden so she could take over her factory. But that was before the war and she was just remembering.

BLOG FOUR!

   The book I am currently reading is "No Pretty Pictures" by Anita Nobel based off of her experience through the Holocaust. Anita is the one narrating the story and it starts off when she is very young not able to comprehend the events happening. They lived in Poland and Anti-Jewish laws began to take a process of happening and their father factory was taken away. First to leave was there father who escaped to Russia and their mom has fake documents. So they lasted five years without getting caught since they stayed and went places with their Nanny so they wouldn’t have to got to a concentration camp. I think more suspense is given because it’s a real experience that happen to a young girl and her brother.

   The signpost I chose to do write about is Tough Question. A tough question Anita asks her self quite frequently is “Why did it have to be them” or “Will they make it through?” This question is something a ten year old has to ask her self and it isn’t for something petty but for a bigger topic. This question she asks often makes me wonder who will survive from her family, who will be lost, and how will their passing be? They are going through a time period that is extremely rough to get through.

Holocaust Blog

I believe that there was bystanders because there was an outcome they were afraid of like, dying. Many probably stood there because they didn't have much of a broad knowledge of what was going on then and or were afraid of something happening to their families or also be marked as the enemy. What inspired others to become an upstander was that they put themselves in the Jewish people's shoes and thought that if that were them they would want someone speaking up for them, fighting for there rights. I learned so much of the cruelty they went through and how almost no one stood up for these Jews and the others that were being tortured.