~Even though Milkweed is a piece of fiction, it is based on real events in history (which is why it is called historical fiction). Below is a short movie that shows what life was like in the ghetto for "unlucky" orphans. Many of the children you see below were orphaned when their parents were rounded up and taken to "work" camps to perform slave labor . Sadly, almost all of the children pictured did not survive, they perished in Treblinka's gas chambers.
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this is an actual boat used to smuggle Jews across the Kattegat ~How did the majority of Jews in Denmark escape to Sweden? The Jews were smu... -
~We finally met the boy in the striped pajamas from The Boy in the Striped Pajamas . His name is Shmuel (pronounced shmoo-el). He is ... -
Kim Malthe Bruun We finished Number the Stars today! Many student agreed it was the best novel they have ever read! This was out third ...