In Hiding to Survive, all its about is the holocaust. There are specific people that
states what happened to them. They have been hiding, starving, captured, and had
guns pointed at the them. Lots of them were the ages of 7-16 getting pulled around
trying to get his by their parents. On page 43-51, Manny Stern was 7, at first he was
with his family then, Fabarons took him in. The rest of his family was split up.
Page 29-41 was my favorite part of the book. Stanislawa Chica took in Rose
Silberberg-Skier, in 1946 and her family. They hid in a barn, with her aunt, mother,
father, sister and lots more people came in. There was too much people to feed all the
kids and adults that were in the barn, they got fed once a week. Silberbergs younger…show more content… Her Aunt Bela
received a letter from her husband, she wrote him back in Yiddish. Then an SS man
came and knocked on Mrs. Chicas door asking where Roses Aunt was. Rose got
thrown into a bunker so the SS men would not capture her. Mrs. Chica's neighbor hated
the Jews, if she found them shed turn them in.
Page 63-71, Jacques Van Dam (8) in full swing Jews were being deported off of
the streets. His father sent him to Northeastern Holland to live with someone he worked
for. Ten days later, he was sent back, for the safety of his family. Germans had taken
more and more kids from school. March 2nd Jacques Uncle Willem took him to a
family's house, Koelewyn. This family had an 11 year old daughter (Annemarie) who
would always play with Jacques at her house. In the distance fog he house, late in the
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summer, there were shootings from Germans. Jacques ran away for an hour and a