Summary Of Hope's Reprise By David Newman

Hope’s Reprise, a memoir authored by David Newman, paints a grim picture of hopelessness and eventual resistance in the face of certain death. Newman is able to give the reader an in-depth look at what it was like to be a Jewish citizen and have to face the fact that they were being lined up to be killed by the Nazi soldiers. Those who were not torched alive, were marched through lethal gas chambers, or to death camps, where SS militants randomly shot and killed them, some were starved and could not endure the horrible conditions in the concentration camps and left to die a slow death. Other captured Jews were assigned hazardous assignments with no protective gear, and thus succumbed to toxic substances and eventually died. Newman, a miraculous

So, as the Jews were rounded up and dragged out of their homes during the start of World War II, they were played by deception that the men were being taken to fight in the war, while women and children would be ‘taken care of’. This explains why they were cooperative and seemed to flock like sheep to a slaughter house. However, Jewish people learned early on that these promises were nothing more than boldfaced lies, and when it became obvious that the Nazi government had the intention to kill all Jews, the Jews staged various kinds of

Poets and performers captured from various parts of Europe and held in camps came in handy to cool down the tension and fear in some of the hopeless situations. For example, on one of the most brutal camps, Skarzysco, where Newman was held and where apparently prisoners turned yellow from jaundice and suffered severe kidney failure, before eventually succumbing to death. One famous poet, Mordechai Strigler, used to write poems and perform them in a bid to raise the prisoner’s hope. Newman would also write songs and perform them with the same