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Holocaust begins
Ruth and her Jewish family are taken by Nazis. Ruth is sent to Buchenwald while her family of 80 relatives are sent to a concentration camp in Auschwitz -
Book Summary pt. 1
Book Summary: The book is After The War by Carol Matas. This book is about a girl named Ruth who was just been released from one of Hitle's many Concentration camps. When she returns home, after the war is over, she realizes all +80 of her fmily is gone. She is only fifteen years old and she feels almost guilty that she is the only one in her family alive. -
Book Summary pt. 2
She then joins an underground group of survivors, some teens and mostly children. They are on a mission to make it back to their homeland. Along the way she runs into a few roadblcks and learns some of the kids experences they also had in the camps. -
Historical Summary pt. 2
Most camps were liberated by the french toward the end of the war. All thoughthey seemed like your everyday prisoner, most were professors, doctors, lawyers, engineers, politicians, priests and ministers -
Historical Summary pt. 1
Holocaust Summary: The Holocaust took place from 1941 to 1945. in mainly Europe. The Holocaust started because Europe was anti-Jewish, and Hitler wanted to eliminate everything but germans that lived in Germany. Over 11 million people died during the Holocaust. 6 million were Jews and 1.1 million were children. Most deaths came from starvation or ghettos or concentration camps. In the concentration camps, they had gas chambets and shooting walls. Many Jews were tortured and humiliated. -
Essential Question Answered
This historical book easily reflects the events and culture from the holocaust. Not only do they portray how horrible the camps are through out the childrens stories but it also shows how much no one cared for Jews even after the war. Ruth knows her parents were sent to Auschwitz (which was a real camp) and she tells the stories of the shooting walls and gas chambers which was what the Nazi's had acually used. Also the organization "Brichah" was a real organization for Jewish refugees. -
Buchenwald Liberated
Concentration camp Buchenwald where 15 year old Ruth was stationed was Liberated by U.S. troops on this day. Today she returns to her home back in Poland. Once she gets there she realizes that none of her relatives had returned home and the only person to greet her was her uncles maid. The Maid does not welcome Ruth into her own house but instead asks why the gas chambers hadn't killed her. -
Brichah
Ruth not being able to find any of her family desides to join an underground organization called Brichah. Ruth has yet to learn what the group acually does. -
Searching
Ruth still searches around her home town door to door of Jewish buisness's she had once known of. She discovers that none of the same people that owned the buisness's before still do and because she is Jewish she is not welcome at any of them anymore. -
Mission Outsiders
A young sabra (a native Israeli) convinces Ruth to help lead 20 Jewish orphans on an illegal quest through half of Europe to their new homeland, Israel. (This was common after almost all of the concentration camps were liberated). -
Holocaust Ends
For the western Allies, World War II officially ended in Europe on the next day, May 8 (V-E Day), while Soviet forces announced their “Victory Day” on May 9, 1945.
