Blog 1- paragraph 1
Hidden child of the holocaust by Stacy Cretzmeyer. What I really found interesting was that in the book is divided in to two parts. And the first part is what really caught my attention because in most Holocaust books that i have read none say anything about non-jewish people accept jews. But in the book it really gave a good and realistic picture of how the Germans were. In the beginning of the book is where its talks about how most non-jewish accepted the jewish but most people who accepted the jew hated what the Germans were doing and would risk there own lives to save the life of others from being killed or send off to the concentration camps. “It was my turn to confide in ruth that as a fifth grader I had heard the personal account of a catholic woman who had sheltered Jewish families during the early years of the war. She wand her husband had smuggled many families to “safe houses” and eventually attracted the attention of gestapo agents. The woman had been tortured by the Nazis in an effort to force her to disclose the whereabouts of her husband. Her fingernails were torn out one by one by her Nazi persecutors but the woman never confessed.Unfortunately her husband was eventually captured and murdered by the Nazis.” This shows that people really did not like what the Nazi were doing people sacrificed themselves to save the life of many others.
Blog 1 paragraph 2
I think that the author wrote this book because she wanted to let people know that what Nazi were doing was bad and that its unacceptable to hurt people just because of there religion. Another thing people really like talking about the Holocaust because you can just write about how you feel and if you agree on the the teller. Also Stacy wanted to know much more about how her teachers past was. But some past are just better left in the past and maybe thats why it gave Stacy wanted to study about the holocaust and how the teacher made it out alive and away form the Nazi. Stacy really wanted to know about the teachers past so she went to France to see if there are still people alive who would accept the jewish or if there was nuns cause most nun accepted the homeless jewish kids and change there religion so the kids didn't get killed.
