The book I'm reading is “Parallel Journeys”. It's based on two kids and their experience growing up on Nazi Germany. My book takes place in 1939 in Nazi Germany, specifically the Holocaust. While they were experiencing their journey, millions of jew were either being killed or put to labor in concentration camps. The events that happened in my book our similar to the events that happened in the real world because my book describes the horrors of the Nazi Germany and Nazism was a real world event, spreading through some of Eastern Europe. During this time, Germany believed that they were doing the right thing by eradicating the Jews and spreading the idea of Fascism. My book covers the experiences of two children. One of them is a Jewish girl named Helen Waterford. She did not like what the Nazi leaders were doing to her people. The other person is Alfons Heck, a young German boy who was a member of Hitler’s “master race”. He believed that the Holocaust was a good thing that benefitted the Germans. Other connections made between my book and real world events are Hitler’s Youth. Hitler’s Youth was a generation of younger kids, all members of the aryan “master race”. On page two it says, “ Alfons Heck considered himself fortunate. He was one of the millions of German children who were Adolf Hitler’s chosen people, his Master Race.” This is why the events in my book relate to historical events.
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The book I have been reading is called Parallel Journeys, which is the story of the holocaust from the two perspectives of Helen Waterford, a young German Jew, and Alfons Heck, and young member of the Hitler Youth. Helen Waterford fled the country because the Third Reich was becoming to anti-Semitic. This relates to the creation of Israel because during the holocaust the Jews were in conflict with the Germans and tried to flee the country to other European countries. Israel was created by the conflicts that the Jews and the Arabs were having. The United Nations came to the conclusion that a new country should be founded. Thus Israel was born. ADL.com states that, “The British concluded that they could no longer manage Palestine and handed the issue over to the United Nations. On November 29, 1947, after much debate and discussion, the UN recommended the partition of Palestine into two states one Jewish and one Arab. The Jews accepted the UN resolution while the Arabs rejected it.” That is why the events in my book relate to the creation of Israel.
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