Jack's Life In 'Surviving Hitler'

In the book Surviving Hitler a boy name Jack is a young boy living in a town named Gydnia in Poland. He lived there with his mom,dad and two siblings. They were a well off family and unlike many families, they had electrcity and running water. Jack had many friends and went to school just like every other kid. Thats when things all changed for him, he had to leave the town and go live with his grandpa in a small town far from Gydnia. His grandpas town was not ad fortunate as jack had been in his hometown and they didn’t have power or running water in the small house they shared with their grandparents. In this town Jack did not go to school and instead went to work to try and support his family. His father had been taken to the concentration

Boys age twelve do not work to support families and can’t even legally get a job. The living conditions are much different because every home now has electricity and running water and you rarely live in one small room with a whole family of multiple kids. You can also got paid much less and the working condiditons and labor was very hard especially when you are only twelve years of age. Jack had now been forced to work for over a year now and him and the other jews in his village were moved into a small, cramped area where there were to big families per one room. This area was called the ghettos were they would sit and wait to be seperated and the people who can work will be taken to work camps and the women and children who can’t work will be taken to death camps. Jack was sent to a working line and seperated from his family and he never knew that would be the last time he saw them. Though things such as the holocaust still happen in the third world countries today they are not as extreme or on as large of a scale. That is because of the holocaust our society and culture has changed upon learning of the wrong doings of the nazis. Since that period of history our world has become more accepting of those that are different from the normal person. We are also more connected to the rest of the world than we have ever been so people in other countries would know quicker if something like this is happening and stop