Yanek's journey by Brennen Woodward

Kraków, Poland

20015041_1 — 2024-11-13 14:04:39 UTC

Yanek's Literal Journey Yanek and his family live in Krakow, 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 Karkow ghetto. For a little while they stay in their flats with several other families. Anti-Semitic rules have been put in place that persecute Jewish people, taking away any rights they had. 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, concentration camps or were killed on sight.

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 constant terror and panic at what awaits him at every turn. The unknown aspects of the war leave a feeling of being unsettled. Yanek early life at 10 year old boy before the war was very normal. He attended school, Playing 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 begin to doughts his fathers constant hopefulness and positivity and wonders who is really 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)

Płaszów, Kraków, Poland

20015041_1 — 2024-11-15 16:09:55 UTC

Yanek's figurative journey

While Yanek's family has survived the resettlement they did not survive the war, and he was taken by a truck to Plaszów where he found his only surviving family member Uncle Moshe where he gave some really important advice to Yanek stating, "Remember: You are no one. You have no name. You do not speak."(Pg.69)

Wieliczka Salt Mine, Daniłowicza, Wieliczka, Poland

20015041_1 — 2024-11-20 14:04:26 UTC

Figurative Journey as Yanek is taken to this Salt mine to work to death he see's these statues, and this really pretty chandelier the previous people carved out of the salt and that made Yanek relies there was so pretty still in the world of the time 1933-1945 and the world is still beautiful the way it is just the people in the world makes it horrible.

Trzebinia, Poland

20015041_1 — 2024-11-21 13:40:22 UTC

Yanek's Figurative Journey At the start of the Trzebinia concentration camp Yanek becomes fury because the Trzebinia junenrats were shooting prisoners for nothing and moving rocks like a checkered board and acting like it was a game then, when one Jew fought back the guards made many more suffer including shooting the man that said it and the kid next to him 13 years got hung for no reason then this feeling made Yanek scared and like he couldn't do nothing and hopeless then he starts to relise and accepts him being a prisoner and apart of the game after long.

Birkenau, Germany

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Yanek's Literal journey Yanek got taken from Trzebinia and loaded up to in a train like human cattle and people so tight together the text stated.... "" I can't breath. I cant breathe!"" "A man at the other end of the car started to scream, giving voice to my panic." (pg.115) they were on the train for almost a day but Yanek got lucky and was by an air vent so he could breath unlike the mad right next to him that was a musselmen and died right next to him from suffocation and starvation. Yanek's Figurative journey Yanek gets taken to Birkenau and all the rumors from every one are there all "being taken to the gas chambers." So Yanek and everyone in the cattle like train is scared for their lives and Yanek feels like it's his first time that he's actually going to die. When they get in the chambers Yanek even starts going insane and the text states, "I thought crazily, and I started to giggle.Yes that was it." (pg.128) but then cold very cold water pours on him when he's waiting for the gas to come out sacredly and the biggest feeling of relieved he's still alive.

Auschwitz, Poland

20015041_1 — 2024-12-03 14:00:54 UTC

Yanek's Figurative Journey Against uncle Moshe's advice Yanek makes good friends with Fred which has conflict good, and bad where it was good because it made Yanek feel human again and he is able to talk to someone but bad, because Fred feels sick one day and don't get up for roll call and they proceed to beat him and Yanek till Yanek goes to roll call and Fred gets hung because he couldn't work. But Yanek had a good laugh when he entered Auschwitz and the SS officer told Yanek and everyone enters through the gate exits through the chimney. "You come in through the front gate, but the only way you leave in through the chimney, the guards had told us when we arrived. HA! Look at me now, I wanted to shout walking out through the front gate, the way I came in!" (pg.168) And when he's on the death march he thinks and reminds himself that he's going to survive and has a moment where he repeats everything he has survived.

Sachsenhausen, Frankfurt-Süd, Germany

20015041_1 — 2024-12-05 14:15:34 UTC

Yanek's Figurative Journey When Yanek arrives to Sachsenhausen he walks through the gate that states "Arbeit Macht Frei" work makes you free. He felt so weak he couldn't work or move and is really just lost which was a sign of him becoming a musselmen. But, he wasn't the only one there was so many dead people the next day of the "Death March" and there was rows of people dead in the barracks the text states, "But here in Sachsenhausen, death was so common, so ordinary, that the dead were like fallen trees in the forest - so unremarkable that they were only moved when they got in the way." (pg.183) showing just how common death was in the camps and how lucky Yanek is to be one to survive. But Yanek also thinks how the Nazis just use them as a game and try to kill them and use them for entertainment when bored for example, on page 193 "That night at roll call the Sachsenhausen guards wanted entertainment, so they had a boxing tournament. They made some of the prisoners be the boxers and forced the rest to watch." Proving and just showing how cruel the Nazis really were.

Bergen-Belsen, Germany

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Yanek arrives at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp the Camps commandant starts yelling at the guards the text states, ""What did you bring me? Look at these skeletons! How do you expect these walking dead to work?"" and right after the camps commandant started shooting the weakest men the text states around 75 musselmen and then, his body gets filled with relief when he figures out he's eating good for a whole week and no work and he thinks to him self maybe Sachsenhausen is a different camp a better one but promised after a week he's back to chipping rocks then the text states, "One day I was hard at work hauling boards for the walls of the barrack (Small room with bunk beds all prisoners sleep together in) when one of our new kapos called me over." "I studied him as a approached." "He had a big, round face that was covered with acne pits and scars." "Without, a word he punched me in the face." "My world exploded." "Pain shot from my nose to my brain, and my head snapped back like I have been hit in the head with a shovel."( pg.199) and then yanek relised it was the same as every camp an the kapo "Moon-face" hit and beat Yanek every chance he got so Yanek relised again he needed to get out of "Bergen-Belsen"

Buchenwald, Weimar, Germany

20015041_1 — 2024-12-09 13:39:00 UTC

Yanek's Figurative Language The Nazis were so cruel to everyone and anyone "The other officer tied its antlers to the fence with a leather strap. The buck only discovered that it was caught when it tried to pull away. It snorted and stamped and whipped it's head back and forth, trying to pull itself free, but it was trapped." (pg.208) and Yanek stated on page 208, "But somehow seeing that deer there thrashing around, trying to free itself from the fence, made my blood boil." showing how it made Yanek feel. But something was also crazy Yanek felt and I agree is they treated the prisoners way worst than the animals in that zoo where they fed bears better food than the prisoners.

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

20015041_1 — 2024-12-10 13:33:04 UTC

Yanek's Figurative Journey On page 219, of the novel "Prisoner B-3087" I told myself I would not fall down that hole. I would climb out again. The Allies were getting closer, And I was going to be there to welcome them when they got here." And this war is coming more to a end and Yanek and his group are going through camp to camp but, Yanek is tired and his only motivation is the Allies and him surviving and even has a dream where he is in a peaceful meadow and a hole opens up and he's falling to hell but he climbs out the hole barly showing he's surviving until the Allies come to free all of them.

Dachau, Germany

20015041_1 — 2024-12-12 13:20:36 UTC

Yanek's Figurative Journey Yanek wakes up at Dachau one morning but something was off he thought he woke up on his own and other prisoners were confused too he was wondering where were the guards of the gate and the SS officers he though in his head "Waiting for the Nazis to jump out and start shooting us. But the camp was empty. (pg.243) then he thought the Nazis must of fled in the night. When all the Jews gathered up in the yard to be free they all thought they have nobody, no where to go, and still in a nasty world in Germany with the Germans still being Anti-Semitic to Jews just Because they are Jews so they were all confused and still trapped until a solider walked up but it wasn't a grey solider in was a green tank with a green solider with a American flag on top he was free the Allies have came and for the first time in 6 years and 11 different locations he was a free boy again.

Munich, Germany

20015041_1 — 2024-12-13 13:36:56 UTC

Yanek's figurative Journey Yanek left Dachau and arrived at Munich Germany and he couldn't leave until he had somewhere to go but the problem was he had no family the Nazis killed them so he was lost so his first night at Munich didn't feel real because of the supplies he had for the first time the Allies told him he doesn't have to worry anymore and told him to rest after a feast and he was so grateful for everything so simple like a toothbrush and for the first time he was free and wasn't a prisoners for the Nazis and could take off his Star of David. "The solider helped me, and I climbed carefully into my bed! A real mattress, with SPRINGS! My body sank into it, and my head fell into the pillow. What a luxury. (pg.249)