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This kinda radio was used to know what was going on in the town.

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Literal Explanation- Yanek heard things on his roof and had to run away and hold his breath. He needed to do this so the person did not listen to him.

Figurative Explanation- Yanek was very scared of Hitler. He did not want to be taken from his family, and he knew this could not be good because Hitler was making speeches on the radio.

Quote- “I shivered when I heard Hitler the German fuehrer, give speeches on the radio,”(Page 3).

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This flat is resembles the apartment building that they lived in.

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Literal explanation- When Yanek was working, the Nazi guard was not satisfied with his speed of work and how well it was done. So the Nazi guard proceeded to strike him in the back with the butt of his rifle.

Figurative explanation- Yanek was in a truck with many other Jews and he didn’t know what to do. He started panicking and getting very nervous. He tried to find a way out. He has never been in this kind of situation back when he was in Krakow

Quote- “I panicked looking for a way out of the truck, out of Plaszow, out of this nightmare but they already swallowed my parents and everyone I loved,”(Page 63).

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This salt represents the salt mines that they had to work in.

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Literal explanation- When Yanek was breaking the big chunks of salt and chipping away his arms were becoming so tired and weak but he knew he couldn't stop.

quote- “Because we'd missed dinner we were sent to bed without any food we knew better then to complain and most of us went to our beds as quickly as we could.”(page 101)

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These stones represent the rocks that they had to move for no reason. 

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Literal explanation- Yanek had to take rocks from one place to another and when he was doing it he was so tired his back was aching in pain and then the rock tore and scraped off yankees skin and he did it again and again and again

quote- “I hefted another rock and kept working while I tried not to let the Nazis see how afraid I was. They were like Amon Goeth dogs, they could smell fear on you and they liked nothing better than to attack you when you were your weakest.”(page 106)

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Birkenau, Ofiar Faszyzmu, Brzezinka, Poland

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This represents the fernis that they used to kill people.

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Birkenau, Ofiar Faszyzmu, Brzezinka, Poland

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Birkenau, Ofiar Faszyzmu, Brzezinka, Poland

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Literal explanation- Once they get to the gas chambers Yanek is just begging for them to get it over with and just kill him, but they don't they spray water instead of gas. Yanek believes this is a blessing he is born again he is saved he is still living and he will keep living until he cant no anymore he will stay a hard-working man until he can work no more.

quote- Yanek starts in Trzebinia Poland, at the beginning of chapter 16 he gets put on a bus to go somewhere random, and they find another bus going somewhere else. Yanek speaks to the people on the other bus, and they tell Yanek they are going to a death camp. Yanek goes crazy he is a madman he just wants to die.

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This chimney symbolizes the spot of when the ashed from the body came from.

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Literal explanation- The conditions were horrid it was a cold January people didn't have shoes they only had half a loaf of bread and if you stopped or slowed down that was it for you. you were shot dead, or frozen to death, people said it felt like they had ice blocks on their feet the only shoes that people had were wooden clogs that probably did not even count as shoes.

quote- Yanek travels to Auschwitz death camp he gets picked to work there. After he gets chosen to work there the Nazis get told to send them to Sashenhausen camp to escape from who they were at war with. When they got moved they didn't have any more cattle cars for people to ride in so they had to walk there (it was called the death march) the death march was crucial to people over 250,000 people died.

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These are an exsample of the beds that the Jews slept in 

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literal explanation- Sachsenhausen, there is a radio tower that the Germans are trying to bomb because they don't want the Jews to know any information about the war or anything that is happening around this time. When they get to this new camp, they divide them into groups again and kill off the weak. Yanek has yet more luck and gets picked to work again.

quote- Yanek wanted to get out and be free from Moon Face. He needed to win this race, so they made all the still-living Jews compete to see who the strongest contenders were. Yanek won this race, and he was getting sent away to work at a new camp.

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literal explanation- Yanek was put to compete in a race with fellow Jews to see who the strongest contenders were. They were set to race luckily Yanek had done well and escaped and luckily he got moved to Buchenwald.

quote- Yanek needed to get out. He needed to escape Moon Face. Though the food was much better and they went to rest, he wasn't going to survive with Moon Face (a murderer) there. Moon Face was a murderer who was put to be a leader at the camp, he would beat on Yanek and his fellow prisoners.

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

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This represents the bread that yenek had to live off of or he would die.

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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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Figurative explanation- Once yanks cattle car came to a stop they started working well at work Yanek lost a button, and he was cruelly punished for this by being beaten ¨20 times¨ he was forced to count in German but it had been so long since he had been to school or counted that he doesn't know how to count in german. Yanek starts to lose all hope.

quote- As soon as Yanek got on the cattle car to go to gross Rosen he was so used to seeing the death that the dead bodies almost didn't even make him feel bad anymore. Death was a normal thing for Yanek he saw it daily.

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literal explanation- There was a zoo in the Buchenwald, and the animals were treated better than the prisoners not just by being fed more but also by the prisoners being more enslaved than the animals. There were also shops there where the Germans would buy the jew's old jewelry and other items.

qoute- Yanek's journey to Buchenwald is full of different povs of people and Yanek talks about how he was enraged at how the dear was treated and handled by his antlers.

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This represents the suits the Nazis wore.

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Literal explanation- After being freed they had a big feast. There were many emotions of sadness remembrance and joy. Like the time Yanek had his Bar mitzvah in a basement or when he snuck into the bakery at night with his uncle and aunt to bake bread. They were crying and remembering their struggles and hardships throughout their journeys. Once they were done eating Yanek got put to rest in one of the old capos' rooms. He was confused did he have to share? how do you make the bed? is this all for him? yanek felt so unsure and not quite right to be treated this well. He hadn't felt this in years.

quote- After being held captive for nearly six years, the war was over. They were set free from captivity. The Americans came and liberated them. Yanek was relieved he was born again he had a second chance he survived; he had made it; he had won after the Americans had freed the remaining Jews.

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This represents the feast that they had at the end of the book when the Americans saved them.

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Figurative explanation- At the beginning of chapter thirty, Yanek goes to a town called Munich where he meets with his neighbor Miss Imaglick. Miss Imaglick hugged him, she hugged him almost as if she would never let go. After she saw Yanek and caught up on how they survived she told Yanek that he still had a cousin who was still alive.

quote- Yanek was introduced to who they were hiding with. He had talked with his cousin Yousic and met the people they went in hiding the games. Yanek in the following year moved to America for a better life, but only after a year of being in America, he was drafted to go to the Korean War. With yet another string of luck, he had survived the Korean War too. He changed his name to Jack and A few years later the games moved to America and married the daughter of the couple.