Hiding+from+the+Nazis

Katrina Ricks-Benas Hiding from the Nazis


 * Please answer each of the following questions about the book you read. You may number your responses or answer them in paragraph form. Provide your answers on the page linked to your book title.

1. From whose perspective is the story told? (A Jew? A Nazi? A survivor? A Righteous Gentile? A Descendant of a survivor?) What are the benefits of getting the story from this perspective?

The story is told from a third person perspective. We get to leatn about the story from a perspective of a person not in the story.

2. What life lesson did you learn from the plot of this story?

How important it is to not give up. Remembering what it is that keeps you going and helps you to survive. Sometimes you have to do whatever you can to survive and sometimes people are willing to risk their life to help someone else out.

3. What did you like most about this book?

I liked the fact that it was based on a true story and that in the end the parents were reunited with their daughter. It was real interesting to hear a personal story of a families struggle to stay alive and survive during a horrible time in their life.

4. How does this text relate, if at all, to // Parallel Journeys //?

It is very similar to //Parallel Journeys.// It is about a married couple trying to survive the holocaust. They separate from their daughter so she would have a better chance of surviving. She is sent to stay with some friends. Both parents and the daughter survive and are reunited with each other. The daughter was afraid when her parents came to pick her up because she was so use to hiding. It took her a while to get use to not hiding and to know her parents loved her. Her parents told her that they sent her away not because she did anything wrong but because they loved her and wanted to give her a better chance of survival.

5. How could you use this book to teach the Holocaust?

This book is about a family trying to survive the Holocaust. This book could be used to show the struggles a family went through and how they felt throughout this hard time. It didn't really go into details about the prisoners of the Holocaust other than some were sent to concentration camps.

6. Would you recommend this book to a friend?

I would recommend this book to a friend as I found it very interesting and I especially like books that are based on true stories. This book is more intended for elementary school aged students but it can give them a small idea of what the Holocaust was about.