Monday, November 16, 2009

The Holocaust and the Book Theif by Sierra Iams

These are the three main things I learned while exploring these sights on the Holocaust:
-There were 20,000 camps that were built in order to work torture innocent people to death
-Around 6,000,000 jews were killed during this tragic time period. However around 200,000 gypsies were killed as well.
-The Auschwitz camp held the responsibility for the most deaths.

The Book Thief and the Holocause connect in many ways. In the book thief people were expected to treat Hitler was treated like a god. People were expected to worship him by saying "Heil Hitler" daily, which was the circumstance in the actual Holocaust as well. Hitler had the biggest impact on the Jews lives during that time period to the point of excessive. As i get further into the book, i'm seeing more and more similarities between the two.

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