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City Of God By El Doctorow

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In City of God, the author, E.L. Doctorow, writes a story of the main character, Mr. Blumenthal, telling his daughter about his childhood as a Jew and how he became a runner during the time of the Nazis. After losing his parents, he was taken to the council center and goes under a new identity as Yehoshua Mendelssohn, the grandson of a tailor named Srebnitsky who he will be staying for now on. Later on, Srebnitsky was executed and Yehoshua had to run away before he gets killed. He went back to the council center where he met Mr. Barbanel who gave him the job as a runner to spread the message from the council to the people to warn them about the Germans. Doctorow describes mechanism of control and persecution the Nazis used in the ghetto
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