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Ch. 1-8 German soldiers forcing Jews in the trucks to go to resettlement/consideration camps (death camps)

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Yanek´s Literal Journey

Yanek and his family live in Kraków, Poland. But in just a blink of an eye, their city was invaded by the Germans beginning WWII. For now, Yanek and his family remain in Kraków. For a little while they stay in their flat with several other families. Anti-semitic rules have been put in place that persecute Jewish people, taking away any rights they have. Over time, walls are built up around the ghetto to contain the remaining Jews who have 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

Yankes 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 continual 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 normal. He attended school, played with his friends, and went to synagogue with his family. He loves his mom and dad and looks up to them 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 Amon Goeth was the commandant at Plaszów concentration camp.He torture and killed jews for fun but was hung after the war for his actions 

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Yaneks figurative journey

Yanek was heartbroken when the Nazis deported his parents and entire family from the Krakow Ghetto. When the Nazis took him off the street, he thought he would be prepared, but once he realized where he was being taken, terror set in and he began to panic. He considered trying to escape from the truck, but he knew that if he did, he would be shot on sight. Upon exiting the truck, he felt a surge of excitement when he saw his uncle, but that happiness quickly turned to guilt when he accidentally caused someone else to get hurt. As the day went on at the camp, Yanek struggled to make sense of the terrifying situation around him. Later, he faced the commandant and witnessed a gruesome scene where the commandment´s dog ripped apart someone next to him. Yanek felt torn, wanting to help but knowing that any movement could put his own life in danger.

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Wieliczka Salt Mine, Daniłowicza, Wieliczka, Poland

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Wieliczka Salt Mine, Daniłowicza, Wieliczka, Poland

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Wieliczka Salt Mine, Daniłowicza, Wieliczka, Poland

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Birkenau, Ofiar Faszyzmu, Brzezinka, Poland

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15-18 gas chambers/showers they used to kill prisoners or disinfect them

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Birkenau, Ofiar Faszyzmu, Brzezinka, Poland

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Birkenau, Ofiar Faszyzmu, Brzezinka, Poland

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Yaneks Literary Journey

One morning, the capos stopped the prisoners from working, and while they stood there, terror-filled their hearts as questions raced through their minds about why they had been stopped. After a while, they were ordered to march at gunpoint toward a train. They were herded up the ramp like cattle, crammed together with hardly any room to breathe. Luckily, Yanek was by the window, allowing him to breathe a little easier and avoid the heat. After half a day, the train finally began to move. Yanek realized he was truly leaving his home, Kraków. As the journey progressed, he watched snow-covered fields, farmhouses, and regular people going about their lives. The train passed through streets, and little anti-Semitic Polish boys threw snowballs and shouted cruel taunts at the prisoners. By this point, it had been about two days, and Yanek and the other prisoners were starving and dehydrated. Desperate for water, Yanek attempted to scoop up some snow, but as he did, he noticed the lifeless body of a man beside him. Despite he managed to collect a bit of snow to quench his thirst. When the train finally came to a stop next to another one, the prisoners told one another about their destination. When they discovered where they were headed, the realization washed over them. it was a death camp, and their time was coming sooner than they had anticipated. Soon after, they parted ways and arrived at their horrific new reality.

Yaneks figurative journey

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Yaneks Literal Journey

After about nine days of walking starving and death all around, Yanek sees a teenage boy struggling and falling behind. This boy reminds Yanek of his friend Fred, who got hung earlier in the story. At the end of the night, Yanek realizes the rest of his bread fell out his waistband, in the morning Yanek's stomach was aching the only thing to eat and drink was snow and all he thinks is please let the boy be dead but the boy looks more alive the next morning. Yanek was disappointed and thought the boy owed him because without Yanek he would´ve died. About 3 days later Yanek made it to Sachsenhausen. They were fed warm soup and bread, Yanek holds off on eating his bread and holds it tight all night in a single bed with five men. Life at Sachsenhausen was nothing but a game to the nazis, death was so common and expected there were bodies left and right. At roll call, if you moved even just to wipe sleet from your face you would be beaten and ordered to do the Sachsenhausen salute (squat with hands held in front of him), and if you moved in any way you would be dead. Some prisoners were so done with life they committed suicide such as throwing themselves at an electric fence. At lunch, the nazis forced the prisoners to sing and be their choir because they thought it was funny and if you were chosen you wouldn't get to eat dinner that day. The nazis would make the prisoners box and do other outrageous things for their own entertainment and fun.

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ch.25 a bear from the zoo of buchenwald made for the wives and children of the soldiers

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Yaneks figurative journey

Everybody was terrified of Buchenwald not only because of how cruel the nazis were but because of how ruthless and burial the commandant and the commandant's wife (Herr and Frau Koch or the Beast and Witch of Buchenwald.) They would commit heinous crimes and steal dead prisoner's gold teeth. Eventually, the nazis hung the Beast of Buchenwald. The Witch of Buchenwald was placed in prison for life until she committed suicide.

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

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Yaneks Literal Journey

Yanek rode on a train for days, enduring starvation, thirst, and the horror that surrounded him. As the war intensified, bombs exploded everywhere. One landed so close to the train that the prisoners could feel the heat. When they finally arrived at their new camp, Gross Rosen, the bodies were unloaded from the train, and many of them were dead. They later fell into a deep sleep inside their barracks. The next day at rollcall one of the nazis realizes that Yanek is missing a button on his uniform. The punishment for this ¨cime" was getting whipped, the whip hit Yanek, again and again, having to count in German each time he messed up, they would start over. That night he went back to his shelf unconscious.

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Yanek's Literal Journey

It was almost spring, but it felt like mid-winter. They marched for days, constantly seeing frozen bodies along the side of the road. When they finally returned to Germany, they headed to a train station. They spent about 24 hours on the tracks, with bombs exploding so close that they could feel the heat and the cattle car rumbling beneath them. Suddenly, they came to a halt. The prisoners were confused until they saw the very last car, which held all the documents. Yanek thought quickly and ripped the Star of David from his uniform. The SS officers made the prisoners line up in two lines one for Jews and one for Poles just like at roll call so that they could remake the documents. Yanek's heart raced as he stepped into the Polish line. Finally, when the Nazis reached Yanek, he told the officer, "Prisoner B-3087, my name is Yan Zielony." Part of this was untrue, but he thought, who cares? He was gonna live. However, a man who saw Yanek switch lines yelled, "That boy's a Jew!" All hope Yanek had for survival vanished. He cried out that even though he was born a Jew, he never practiced, had never been to a synagogue, and even attended church. But he was shoved back into the correct line and would remain a Jew.

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ch. dinning table jews ate at after liberation

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Yanek Literal Journey

After a short truck ride, they were finally in Munich. Munich was a luxury to them they had their own bed, bed sheets, pillows, and blankets. There were also toothbrushes washcloths and many other hygiene products that Yanek hadn't seen in years. That night they sat in long tables and chairs with the American soldiers. There were plates, silverware, and a huge feast that everybody including the soldiers ate. Some of the prisoners began to cry as they began to pass the food and salt around. At last, they are free but will forever have to carry the terrors about what they saw and how they were treated.