Taylor Freeman March 10, 2014 Period: 3A The Shawl The Shawl is about a Jewish woman named Rosa who was being moved to another concentration camp with her two daughters Madga and Stella. They were part of the Holocaust, this was when the German’s imprisoned and killed Jewish people because of their nationality. In the concentration camps if the other Jews found out you had a small child, they would try to eat them because of the lack of food. Rosa wanted to protect her youngest child, Madga so she hid her in the shawl from the other prisoners and prison guards. Madga was different from the other Jews; she had blue eyes and blond hair like the Germans. When you looked at her she reminded you of a German. Stella, the older of the two