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Isabella's The Big Lie

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“85% or 2,800, 000 Jews killed in Poland. 71% or 1,500,000 Jews killed in the Soviet Union. 51% or 200,000 Jews killed in Hungary. 50% or 425,000 Jews killed in Romania. 78% Jews killed in Germany and Austria” (Vogt). These are the numbers of the people killed from the Holocaust, a terrible time in history when Hitler and the Nazi party persecuted the Jews. A story about the Holocaust, “The Big Lie” was told by Isabella who was a young jewish girl who was trying to live through the Holocaust. Isabella and her family have been kicked out from their house, moved to a ghetto then on to Auschwitz. Through these terrible events Isabella was able to get through and continue in her life.
Like many Jew’s then Isabella was stripped from her freedom. First, when the Nazi’s came they made her whole family, and any Jew, where the star of David (Leitner pg 21). Next, they made rules for the Jews: no Jew can own a radio no Jew can use a bike or own one no Jew can talk to non Jews in public, this was how her life was for a little bit (Leitner pg 22). Then, Isabella’s life got worse, her family were kicked out of their home and sent to live in a ghetto with …show more content…

First, when Isabella’s family first got to the concentration camp there was a piece of wood being passed over each fence trying to get to the right person. When Isabella’s family got the block of wood ‘The instructions said“My four sisters are in Lager C. Their name is Katz. Whoever finds this piece of wood, please toss it over the fences until it reaches them.” The message was shorter: ”You must live. You simply must. I love you.”’ (Leitner pg 52). Then, another time when there was hope was when Chicha held the rock for hours and gave hope to others about this win because if she dropped the rocks, like most people did then she would get shot in the head (Leitner pg 54). Finally, there is always hope even when you are in terrible

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