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Remember Your Heritage: The Devil's Arithmetic By Jane Yolen

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Devyn Weber Mrs. O’Leary / Ms. Donovan ELA 29 March 2023 Remember Your Heritage We all have our own unique heritage. The common theme of the novel, The Devil’s Arithmetic by Jane Yolen, the video “Auschwitz survivors reunited 70 years on” from BBC News, and the poem “Homesick” by Anonymous, is to always remember your heritage. This theme is shown in The Devil’s Arithmetic when the prisoners in the concentration camps get their number tattoos and they relate them to their lives and families. In addition to that in the video the survivors talk about their families and their experience in the Auschwitz concentration camp. Furthermore, in the poem “Homesick” the narrator talks about how they remember the golden days and want to go back to them. This shows that the common theme displayed between these three resources is the …show more content…

You are now J197241. Remember it.” (Yolen 100) Says the man tattooing her. A new character Rivka explains her tattoo. Her tattoo is J18202. J stands for Jewish. 1 is for her because she is alone. Up next, is 8 because there were 8 people in her family. Additionally, for her family that is left, Rivka and her brother. Her brother feels like he is a 0 and lastly, 2 is for her hope that they will be together as 2 again. Rivka then teaches Chaya how to relate her tattoo to her heritage and her background. This is how the novel The Devil’s Arithmetic shows to always remember your heritage. Secondly, the video “Auschwitz survivors reunited 70 years on’ from BBC News shows to always remember your heritage when the survivors of the camp share their stories and memories about their families and their past. In addition to that, Saya Dougherson was arrested and killed in Auschwitz but her daughter Madeline escaped and survived. In the video, Madeline took out papers and showed her own Jewish Star of David. She spoke about how “At the moment immediately I knew it was finished for my mother.

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