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 Ch 1-8 Yanek and his family live in Krakow, Poland. This picture explains what they did in the ghettos. They weren't allowed to leave their houses. If they went outside by 9 pm they would be shot and killed.

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Yaneks literal Journey

Yanek and his family live in Krakow, Poland. But in the blink of an eye, the Germans invaded their city at the beginning of WWII. For now, Yanek and his family remain in Krakow. For a little while they stay in their flat with several other families. Anti-Sematic rules were put in place that persecuted Jewish people, taking away any rights they had, over time, the walls built up around the ghetto to contain the remaining Jews who had not been taken for resettlement or deportation yet. One by one many Jews were relocated to other Jewish ghettos, work camps, and concentration camps or were killed on site. Also, This is where Yanek had his bar mitzvah.

Yanek´s Figurative Journey

With the stress of no food, and constant hiding. Yanek is living in fear of being caught by the Nazis. His emotional state is one of continuous terror and panic at what awaits him at every turn. The unknown aspects, of the war, leave a feeling of being unsettled. Yanek's early life as a 10-year-old boy before the war was very normal. He attended school, played with friends, and went to the synagogue with his family. He loves his mom and dad and looks up to them but as the war continues Yanek begins to doubt his father's constant hopefulness and positivity and wonders who is right- his father or Uncle Moshe. ¨I still worried he was wrong, but fresh bread made me forget all my troubles. For a little while, at least.¨(pg.25) Doubting your parents for the first time is a struggle for Yanek especially in war-torn Poland.

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Ch. 9-12 The Jewish barracks were in charge of a man named Amon Goeth who was a terrible monster killing multiple jews. The barracks were mostly Jews coming from Krakow poland.

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Yaneks figurative journey

Yanek thought all his family members were gone and that it was all over right then and there. All Natzis thought of the Jews as anti-Semitism. When he went to work, he saw his uncle, Moshe. This changed everything for Yanek because he thought everyone he loved was gone. Yanek didn't know the camp's rules when he shouted out with excitement ¨uncle Moshe ¨ right away." Among Goeth, he said who that was, and no one answered, so he decided to take advantage of someone for something they didn't do. When Yanek got the break to talk to Uncle Moshe his heart was filled with happiness because it was great to know that Uncle Moshe was still here with him so he didn't think he was alone. They also used the Torah for the bar mitzvah.

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Wieliczka Salt Mine, Daniłowicza, Wieliczka, Poland

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ch 13 Yanek has been moved to wieliczca salt mine. This salt mine has been here for years. One thing about this is that workers from years ago still have back problems and some are stuck with their backs hunched over.

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Yaneks figurative journey

When Yanek was deported from Plazow, he thought this would be way better than working there. He didn't know what was ahead of him, but it would be soon to find out. When Yanek first went down to the Wieliczka Salt Mine, he was given a pick axe and a helmet with a flashlight on it. After all the instructions were told everyone started mining salt. Yanek saw someone familiar and asked if he was from Krakow poland the guy quickly responded no. Two other kids about yankes age also questioned him because he looked familiar. They were soon to find out that the guy who looked familiar was a guy who worked as a Judenrat almost like a police officer for other Germans and he did rediculous stuff. After all the guards left the two boys that were around Yanek's age wanted to get revenge for what he did so they pickaxed the man and rubbed all of his wounds in salt so they made him suffer.

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Ch. 14-15 Yanek discovers the horror Trezbania Poland. 

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Yanek's Figurative Journey, In Trzebinia Poland, Yanek didn't know what was coming for him when he thought he could fight back at some guards because they had more prisoners than guards. So when one of the prisoners fought back he hit the guard on the back of the head and then got shot right in the head and then thrown into the lake to finish him off and have the fish eat him. This then made Yanek more scared then he had ever been, so he just had to accept that he wasn't stronger than these guards because they have guns and wooden bats so nobody would get out. One of the the mini-major things that happened was an extermination.

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Birkenau, Ofiar Faszyzmu, Brzezinka, Poland

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ch 16-17 Yanek is taken to a train and transported to Birkenau. They see another train go by and they stop to ask questions, Yaneks train is going to a place where there are gas chambers involved to kill them.

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In Yanek's figurative Journey, In Chapters 15-16 Yanek is put through the maximum struggles because he was getting loaded into a trailer with a bunch of other prisoners, he was pressed up against an air vent and he would have been dead like most of the other prisoners because they were starved and had to stand up for several days. when they got to the camp or you could call it a death trap, they were put into a gas chamber. They said if they stood under the shower head they would die faster but when the shower heads started to go water started to come out so they used all of the gas on other prisoners and none was left, so they were beaten but it was better than dying.

Yaneks Literal journey, when Yanek was heading to the gas chambers he was quite literally going insane, he was on the train there, he was all smashed into the corner and he was there for days but he was relieved when it started to snow because there was snow in the little air vent so he would eat it, when he was sleeping he woke up to a smelly train and when he looked around he saw a dead body next to him so he was scared and tried to move but couldn't because people were yelling at him for moving because all of the other prisoners were sleeping.

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Chapters 19-20 show Yanek facing some of his fiercest challenges, one of which is his only friend getting hung for being sick.

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Yanek's figurative journey, In chapters 19-21 he is greeted with a big sign named Arbeit Match Frie. Yanek is also faced with two big challenges, one of which is when he makes a new friend. He talks to him and even tells him his name which is hard for Yanek because his uncle Moche told him never to tell anybody his name, where he was from, or any information to anybody because they could use it against you. Still, one day Yanek's friend wakes up sick and he is sick and can't get out of bed so he gets beaten by the guards and then gets hung. another big detail that happened in these chapters was when he sees a new family of Jews walk into the camp and they get lied to by the nazis and then the nazis killed the kid's parents and left the kid all alone. They also used a crematorium for the chimney because that was the only way they could leave.

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In Chapter 23, Yanek gets sent to a new camp and maybe the worst one yet because they taunt the prisoners and all their prisoners are dying because they can't work after that 10-day walk. 

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Yaneks figurative journey, Yanek finally arrives at his new camp Sachenhausen, the guards had let them eat and get bread for the next day, then the next night Yanek and a few other prisoners were chosen to sing for the guards while they ate, so Yanek didn't get any food that night not even a piece of bread. All of the prisoners had to have private boxing matches just so that the guards were amused andn't bored all the prisoners were hurt and sick, and one of the top guards chose that the Jews didn't have to work for a week and then he fed them all good food nice thick soup and golden brown full loaves of bread, but if you thought then you would know that they normally would be doing work and now that they aren't they are going to be faced with way more challenges than what was before.

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In chapters 24, have you ever heard about how Anne Frank almost survived the Holocaust.

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In Yaneks figurative journey, In chapter 24 Anne Frank had hidden for two years with her family and they all almost survived the war because the war was almost over, if they had stayed hidden for a few more months they they would have been alive. There was a camp leader that the prisoners called Moonface because his face was perfectly round and he was cold with no care in his eyes as he punched and tortured all the Jews. yanek feels like he is in purgatory because he is just waiting for the war to be over just like how you wait for your sins to be forgiven, Yanek just wanted to get killed by a bomb dropped from the sky because he wanted to be put out of his misery but they, he thought of his parents and was going to survive but then the workers needed more prisoners at another camp and you will learn about that next chapter. Another thing that happened in Bergen Bels is that they got euphemisms because they got lucky with no work and good food.

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In Chapter 25, You will learn about how cruel this couple was.

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Yaneks Figurative journey, In Chapter 25 it is a small camp but there is city life all around it because the nazis want the Jews to go through torture. They also had a zoo next to the camp and the nazis treated the animals better than the prisoners by giving the animals steaks and having the Jews starve. The camp owners were ruthless and even the workers noticed they were relentless. They put the prisoners through torture because when they had to lift rocks if they were too small they would kill you and if they were too big they would kill you so this is some of the torture they were put through.

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Gross-Rosen Museum in Rogoznica, Ofiar Gross Rosen, Rogoźnica, Poland

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In Chapter 26, Yanek has been hit in his back several times for losing the Button.

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Gross-Rosen Museum in Rogoznica, Ofiar Gross Rosen, Rogoźnica, Poland

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Gross-Rosen Museum in Rogoznica, Ofiar Gross Rosen, Rogoźnica, Poland

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Yanek's figurative journey: When Yanek arrives at Gross-Rosen, a Natzi guard spots him without his button on. Yanek has no clue about this and has been beaten several times in the back. The guards did not play around and made Yanek count in German language. In the text it states "One," I said in Polish. "In German!" the soldier said. "Well start again." Crack!. This shows how cruel the Natzi guards were and never cared how bad they felt about Jewish and polish people.

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In chapter 29, The allies got closer and made all of the Nazi and SS officers retreat and leave so the Jews and Polish people were free.

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In Yanek's figurative journey, Yanek wakes up because he is used to waking up early in the morning. Still, he realized something was off because when one of the Jewish people looked outside the Barack he realized that the Natzis and the SS officers were nowhere to be seen. Everyone wanted to see so everyone got up to look outside and no one could believe it. When Yanek got up to look he realized that they were not lying and saw nobody but people with green hats coming towards them. He knew what the Natzi and SS officer's hats looked like and they were nowhere near the color and realized that the allies were there and they were saved. Yaneks said, " I never felt so relieved".

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In chapter 30, you will learn how great the allies actually were.

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Yaneks's Figurative Journey: Yanek gets to talk to an American soldier, and he asks, "In English, are you OK?" Yanek doesn't understand because he's Polish, so he asks in German because Yanek knows a little German, and he says yes. Yanek is then transported to Munich which is for the Jews and he gets to a room where there are a ton of beds he then asks the soldier how many people he sleeps with. Yanek has always slept with people in the camps because of insufficient beds. The soldier then replies this is your bed so you sleep with no one. Yanek is then given a brand-new toothbrush, sheets, a pillow, and a blanket. Yanek is so happy to have this stuff because he hasn't owned anything like this since he was a kid.