Summaries and Reflections
Chapter 1-6 Prisoner B-3087
Summary: A boy named Yanek is Jewish. He lives in an apartment in Poland that is in a ghetto. Germans burned the synagogue, made new rules, and keep putting more and more Jews in their family's apartment. Yanek really likes films, so one day he wants to come to America and be apart of the film industry. But, those dreams have changed. Now he has to survive. Nazis invade his apartment and take valuables. His neighbors beaten and then dragged away. That's when Yanek found an old pigeon coop on the roof of his apartment. Him and his father fixed it up and put metal bars on it to protect them. Now nobody can get inside.
Reflection: I understand that the Germans are scary, but Yanek's mother wouldn't talk. I would think that she would rather protect her son than not talk to the Germans. Yanek's mother seems so scared of the Germans that she would rather protect herself than her family. Yanek's was very brave for standing up for everybody in his apartment and not just standing there not talking what so ever. Also Yanek fixes up a pigeon coop for his family which was pretty cool and still his mother just sat there and demanded bars so they could be protected.
Summary: A boy named Yanek is Jewish. He lives in an apartment in Poland that is in a ghetto. Germans burned the synagogue, made new rules, and keep putting more and more Jews in their family's apartment. Yanek really likes films, so one day he wants to come to America and be apart of the film industry. But, those dreams have changed. Now he has to survive. Nazis invade his apartment and take valuables. His neighbors beaten and then dragged away. That's when Yanek found an old pigeon coop on the roof of his apartment. Him and his father fixed it up and put metal bars on it to protect them. Now nobody can get inside.
Reflection: I understand that the Germans are scary, but Yanek's mother wouldn't talk. I would think that she would rather protect her son than not talk to the Germans. Yanek's mother seems so scared of the Germans that she would rather protect herself than her family. Yanek's was very brave for standing up for everybody in his apartment and not just standing there not talking what so ever. Also Yanek fixes up a pigeon coop for his family which was pretty cool and still his mother just sat there and demanded bars so they could be protected.
Chapter 6-12 Prisoner B-3087
Summary: Yanek and his family lived in the pigeon coop for quite some time. They stayed safe from the Nazis, because that's what mattered. One day the director called a meeting and said that 7,000 Jews would have to be taken away, so he asked for children. That night Yanek and his family left there pigeon coop to go to an abandon building to have a bar mitzvah for Yanek. The next morning Nazis came and took 7,000 Jews prisoner and shot many in the streets. Later, Yanek decided that he would go to a friends house before he went home. When he was on his way home, he thought he saw his mom and dad in the streets being taken away. Yanek raced home and his mother and father were not in the coop, they were gone. Yanek was taken from work one day and put into a concentration camp. He found his Uncle Moshe there and Yanek gave him money to get food. Uncle Moshe got shot and the money was nowhere to be found.
Reflection: When Yanek found out that his uncle has been shot, how did he not cry? I know of the Nazis at the camp saw that he was crying, he would be shot, but how did he not control that? When they were cleaning out the apartments that Yanek use to live in, how did yanek not scream when he saw the dead body just laying there, decaying? He barely reacts at all. Also, why did Yanek's friend Thomas call him by his name? They are suppose to be nobody.
Chapter 12-18 Prisoner B-3087
Summary: Yanek was brought another concentration camp that is a salt mine. One of the prisoners the Nazi that took his mother's wedding ring.Suddenly Yanek felt mad. Later that night that man was found dead his, his body bloody and salt rubbed in his wounds. Yanek was then transported to a new concentration camp that made the prisoners carry the same rocks back and forth. At that camp a prisoner attacked a guard and made many people die with him. The Nazi then blamed most of the prisoners and Yanek was moved again. Thy were transferred on a cattle cart and the man sitting next to Yanek died. They were then put into a room where Yanek thought he was going to die, but he was sprayed with water. After that, he got a tattoo on his wrist, B-3087.
Reflection: I don't know how Yanek handled the dead body laying on him the whole way to the new camp. That shouldn't be something he is worrying about, but it's a dead body! Plus, how did he just accept he is about to die? If I knew I was about to die, no matter what the circumstances were, I would have a total meltdown. Yanek was also very brave for standing up and letting that boy have his bar mitzvah. He barely got to have his.
Chapter 18-26 Prisoner B-3087
Summary: Yanek was moved to Auschwitz. The guards outside told the prisoners that the only way out was through the chimney. Here, Yanek met somebody named Fred. They became very close friends, they did everything together. Until one day Fred got sick and he couldn't work, so the Nazis hung him. After this, Yanek went on a death march to Sachsenhausen. The prisoners got 1/2 of a loaf of bread to last them the whole trip. Yanek saw a boy stumbling, so he helped him and dragged him along for the whole day. When it was time to go to sleep, Yanek realized he had lost his bread. Yanek told himself that if the boy was dead in the morning he would take his bread. When they woke up, the boy wasn't dead or grateful. After a while Yanek was moved to another concentration camp where the animals there were treated better than the people.
Reflection: When they get to Auschwitz, and the man's family is taken away, why did he react somewhat sane? Also, when they were placed, how did the Nazis believe he was 18? When he met Fred, why was he honest about who he was and whee he was from? Uncle Moshe told him he was suppose to be nobody and have no emotion if he wanted to survive. Plus, if the allies (in the planes) didn't know what was happening in the concentration camps, wouldn't they see them as they are flying over dropping bombs?
Chapter 26-30 Prisoner B-3087
Summary: Yanek was packed into another train. Along the way there was more bombings nearby. Yanek Lost his button and was whips 20 times, but he was whipped more because he didn't know how to count to 20 in German. Yanek went on another death march and received bread from Moonface. Later, after they got to the new concentration camp they were more bombings. In the night the Nazis what the camp and Americans rescued the prisoners. The Americans gave him basic needs that seemed extraordinary. He even found his cousin he didn't know about. Yanek finally moved to America and was renamed Jacob, but had the nickname Jack because that's what the American soldiers called him.
Reflection: As Yanek and the other prisoners left for another death march, how does he not to die, or give up?especially from his last experience. Also, when he sees the frozen, dead bodies laying in the middle of the road doesn't grossed out at least a little bit even though he seen other dead bodies? As there are more bombings doesn't Yanek get excited? If I heard the bombings I would be a static. When the American soldiers rescue the prisoners I wonder if any of the prisoners started crying just as he did. When they are getting back to the barracks that the Americans bring them to I would be very happy to see the basic assess cities I had before I was imprisoned. As they ate their meal with all the food with their stomachs be hurt because they ate very small light meals in the camps?
Reflection: As Yanek and the other prisoners left for another death march, how does he not to die, or give up?especially from his last experience. Also, when he sees the frozen, dead bodies laying in the middle of the road doesn't grossed out at least a little bit even though he seen other dead bodies? As there are more bombings doesn't Yanek get excited? If I heard the bombings I would be a static. When the American soldiers rescue the prisoners I wonder if any of the prisoners started crying just as he did. When they are getting back to the barracks that the Americans bring them to I would be very happy to see the basic assess cities I had before I was imprisoned. As they ate their meal with all the food with their stomachs be hurt because they ate very small light meals in the camps?