The Holocaust and the Book Thief by Dallas Anderson

Three things I learned about the Holocaust are:

1. Buchenwald Concentration Camp was one of the largest camps run by the Nazis. It was established in 1937 and ran by SS authorities. Women were not part of Camp Buchenwald until late 1943 or early 1944. Prisoners were either shot or hanged. (http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005198)
2. The Germans established over 1,000 ghettos in Germany. There were three types of ghettos: closed ghettos, open ghettos, and destruction ghettos. The largest ghetto was the Worshaw ghetto, where over 400,000 Jews crowded into an area 1.3 miles big. (http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005059)
3. Pogrom is a Russian word meaning “to wreak havoc, to demolish violently.” The first incident to be labeled a pogrom is believed to be anti-Jewish rioting in Odessa in 1821. Progroms are established by local communities and rebel against a certain cause. (http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005183)

The Book Theif relates to the Holocaust because Papa Hubermann believes that Liesel's mother was taken to a concentration camp. A pogrom that happens in the book in when the pile of books, posters, papers, and anything else that could be burned is ignited.

Dallas Anderson

P.S. My Birthday is today (November 15)!