Student Book Review
Waiting for Anya, by Michael Morpurgo
posted by Ms. Beth Keyser | 6:44 PM
Eighth Grade Holocaust Unit
Through our research from the United States Holocaust Museum Website, Voices of the Holocaust and many other non-fiction books about the holocaust, students will attempt to answer the following questions: How did the Holocaust happen in the first place? How were the victims persecuted? What was the resistance to the Nazis during the holocaust? Why should we remember the holocaust? Who was responsible for the holocaust?
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6 Comments:
"Letters from Rifka" is about never giving up on your dreams. For example when Rifka gets typhus, she works and works to get better. Then when she gets the ringworm and is not allowed into America. Living in Belgium she learns three languages, she is very clever. When she finally reaches Ellis Island she teaches the little Russian boy to read the Pushkin, and helps many of the nurses there in the hospital. While there she learns English. At the end of the book she finally makes it into America.
"Waiting for Anya" is about a boy who finds out a widow named Widow Hordica, who helps hides Jews in her barn, from solders. She sneaks them into a different country that allows Jews into their country. But they run a big risk, cause if you get caught helping Jews you will get shot.
this book expands the idea that most of the jews were persacuted in Poland by the Nazis. ten years before world war 2 the USSR, and Poland were picking on the jews. rifka is a Ukrainian jew. and i am Ukrainian, and i know that the russians thought Ukrainians were walking piles of crap so a Ukrainian jew was like a walking pile of crap that you dropped your car keys in. this book describes how if you hold onto your pride no one can take it even though every seems to hate you for no reason.
my comment is about Letters from Rifka.
The message of "Waiting for Anya" is just cause you are a certain way or you believe in certain things, that there is no reason to treat you a certain way or act a certain way around you.
The young boy in waiting for Anya must of had a lot of courage and perseverance. When he finds out that the widow had all of those kids he kept that a secret, from all of those nazi solders and his family. He had a lot of courage when he was around the nazis, and every time he went to the widows house. When he went out and found Anya's dad (i can't remember his name) he was brave helping him get all of those Jewish kids into the different country. He had to have a lot of perseverance to keep going even when he knew that if he got caught helping Jewish people that he could get shot.
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