Red Maple 2011!

Red Maple 2011!

Thursday, January 27, 2011

Whispers from the Ghettos - NON-FICTION

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

Tomi Kolapo 8I
This was one of my favorite nonfiction books. before reading this book i didnt know ghettos were used during the holocaust. i enjoyed learning about each child's experience within the ghettos. such as one like how a family jew of course we being sent out of their home so there was a speacial place where there supposed to dump their stuff but instead the girl and her father coudnt part with their books and saw many books that had been dumped so they carefully returned home each day with a newpatch of books and they kept it well hiden...i was inspired by how this family wanted to keep their most precious item a tool that could give u a brigther future or something to just pass the time. 9/10

Anonymous said...

Caitlin 7B
this book was really good. my favorite story was ghetto child which was about a young girl who met a man when walking around the ghetto this man gave her food (which was very scarce at this time). later the man helped her escape. she was the only child from her ghetto to survive .my least favorite story was stolen from her arms. this story was about a family in kovno ghetto in 1944 when the children were being rounded up . her little brother was taken from her arms after they had tried to hide from the Nazi's and she never saw him again.9/10

Anonymous said...

Emily Sa. F7F King George
The book 'Whispers fromt the Ghettos' was a book that reminded me of our worlds horrible past. The innocent Jews that were forced into Ghettos in Germany and surronding countries. The book has stories about the survivors of these horrible places. I didn't like the fact that it reminded me of Hitler. I know I must face the truth I don't liked to be reminded. I rate this book 8/10.

Anonymous said...

Natasha Haines 8A
I would rate this book a 8/10. i found that it was really good and i thought it was interesting to read a bopok based on the holocaist adn how jews had to live in ghettos. before i read this book i had no idea that happened. the lviing conditions were horrible, the food scarce, adn everyone was always getting sick. plus there was never any privacy. i think my favourite story was george berman's "sabotage". i liked how he rebeled against the nazis inhis own way. nobody knew that he was sabotaging the nazis vehicles, but im sure evry time he injected a little of the acid into the wires, he had a little private victory.

Anonymous said...

Kiara Julien F8I
This was the only non fiction book that I didnt end up reading and I loved it!
All of the childrens' stories were so interesting, and I just wanted to keep reading! It really makes you realize how lucky we are.
Non-fiction books aren't my type of book to sit down and read with, but this impressed me.
9/10

Anonymous said...

alicia denoon 8A
I would rate this book a 6/10. I found this book depressing and repetitive, but at the same time very real and people do need to see the facts. I feel very bad about what happened to the Jews. I liked how some of the Jews rebelled against the Nazis in their own little way.

Anonymous said...

Lucy Shen 7A,
This book was really interesting to read for a nonfiction book. Although I've already read loads of books about the Holocaust and such stories straight from people who were involved made it more intriguing.It was really sad how so many people lost there family and their loved ones.The one story with the little girl who left the ghettos with the man who gave her food and his wife thinking that she would see her mom and her sister again was heartbreaking. I would rate this a 9/10 it taught me alot about the nazi's and such.