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Fanya Gottesfeld Heller
Joshua Greene
"I peered out the second-floor window of my grandparents' villa. Through an early morning haze I saw men in German uniforms jumping off trucks. The Germans were carrying rifles and kicking in the doors of houses up and down the main street. Some of the men restrained big barking dogs on leashes. I heard people screaming and watched as men, women, and children scattered in all directions . . ." Fanya and her family run to their secret hiding place. But even if they survive this Nazi search, there will be others. How long can they survive? You will never forget Fanya's incredible story of courage and survival and she recounts the true story of how she survived the Holocaust.
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Author
Fanya Gottesfeld Heller
Pages
109
Publisher
Scholastic Incorporated
Published Date
2017
ISBN
1338189468 9781338189469
Ratings
Google: 5
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"this story is told threw the eyes of a little jewish girl living in Poland. she lives with her mom and dad and a little brother named author, she also has a crush on a non-jew name jan. as she gets older, world war two starts. at her town, most of the people din't like jews, now that the germans are here the real problems start. the germans start by taking all the jewish children out of school, they then burn all the books that they own. they are all then forced out of their homes, and the germans start to kill the jews. Fanya and her family try to hide, but it gets harder for them. go through the eyes of a girl named Fanya, who survived the holocaust.<br/><br/>Fanya tried her best to stay hidden from the german soldiers, from hiding in the tiniest spaces, to the smelliest of barns, because of this she survived. even though she got sick and went through several comas when she hid in the secret space of a barn, she survived. even though she loved jan, she knew that she couldn't marry him because he was a non-jew, but she did end up marrying a kind hearted jew, like herself named Joseph. after she moved to the united states, she went through therapy, because of what happened, and because of this she was able to write this book openly.<br/><br/>my opinion on the book was that it was very sorrowful, but it gave me an idea of what happened to the jews who survived the holocaust. the whole time I felt mournful for her and her family, who barely had enough to eat. by the end though, it was indeed happier than the beginning, with fanya marrying somebody right and her having a child. she also moved to New York,where she wanted to go since she was a kid. she then ended up having a good life in her later years, so overall I think it was good book."