The book Prisoner B-3087 by Alan Gratz is about a young jewish boy named Yanek Gruener. His story starts in the krákow ghetto with his family. Yanek starts his story at the age of ten. He then lives there until he turns 13. Typically in the jewish culture when a boy turns 13 they have a bar-mitzvah. Although he was under Nazi rule and it was not allowed, he had one anyway. After being split apart from his parents he was forced to survive on his own through 10 different concentration camps.
In these camps Yanek was tortured both physically and mentally. He went through the impossible. His experience and the Holocaust is very relevant to the modern day issues in Syria. As Jeff McMahan says “Syria is a modern-day holocaust. We must act.”. In Syria the Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad is gassing his people.This sounds a lot like something that would occur in a concentration camp. Assad also uses starvation against his people, just like Hitler did to those in the concentration camps. I believe what is happening in Syria is very similar to the events of the holocaust. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/in-theory/wp/2015/11/30/syria-is-a-modern-day-holocaust-we-must-act/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.a25acf02d0dc
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Gia Agrawal
4/25/2018 04:16:11 am
Wow, it’s amazing how awful someone can be treated just because of the religion they follow. What are the worst things that he had to deal with?
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4/26/2018 05:43:32 pm
That's a great connection; I never thought of how similar the Holocaust is to what's happening in Syria. Also, this character seems very brave. How did he survive 10 concentration camps?
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Cramer
4/27/2018 02:34:06 pm
Do you believe this "second holocaust" can be managed with less casualties than the first?
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Mills
4/28/2018 06:36:32 pm
I wrote my blog on this same connection. Why do you think whats happening in Syria isn't more known throughout the world?
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