This was mainly about a boy named Yanek Gruener and how he and his family are trying to survive the tortures of the Nazis while he has to live with 3 other families in a ghetto. As the Nazis start to take away the Jews and moving them in death camps and concentration camps soon all of his family is taken away except him. But after a while of living unaccompanied in the ghetto he is found and he is placed in a labor camp. When he arrives, he sees a familiar face, it was his uncle Moshe which he had been living in the ghetto with, they were they only survivors at that point. The rest of his family was either killed by the Nazis or they were missing. Now on his own trying to survive all the horrors of being a prisoner at the early age of 13. I hypothesize that while Yanek is still at the labor camp, Amon Goeth the leader of the camp will kill his uncle Moshe because, of the racist and unfair treatment they would undergo. Later in the book uncle Moshe did die, he died while working in the camp when Goeth came up to Moshe and asked …show more content…
As an example during the 1650ś Afro Americans were treated as slaves and near the 1950ś segregation started here in america. This in fact has not stopped here in America and in other parts in the world. Some political and terrorist organisations, still make racist comments and actions on one's race or religion. Me being an American Citizen but having parents from different ethnic backgrounds, these comments or actions still make me feel as if i am being attacked. I feel that I relate to Yanek because before he was sent to a Concentration camp he felt that hitler's beliefs made him feel inferior or less than other races, sometimes that's how i feel towards political