The Lost Childhood

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The Lost Childhood

• By Yehuda Nir
• Sierra Bustamante

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Characters

• Yehuda Nir
• Major Kedves and German army
• Yehudas mother and father
• Lala
• Lonek

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Setting and Time

• 1941- summer
• A Polish town

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Beginning

• The story starts off in the beginning of World
  War Two.
• Yehuda and his family are in there house
  listening to the radio and decided to go in
  hiding.
• Lalas, Yehudas sister, boyfriend, Lonek,
  creates false documents that state they arent
  Jews, but Catholics.
• Germans have already started building
  concentration camps for all Jews.

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Middle

• Germans name concentration camp in town ghetto
  and start taking Jews into them.
• Lonek and Yehudas family hide in their house and
  sell the furniture for food money.
• Yehuda and his family try to find Father, but
  Major Kedves told them he either isnt alive, or
  will not be living for very long.

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End

• Lonek gets caught with the false documents and
  sent to a concentration camp and he is never seen
  again.
• Germans are given the order to stop fighting
• Yehuda finds his family and they move to America
  and they go back to Poland three years later to
  find Yehudas father.
• The father and Loneks bodies were never
  recovered in the wreckage.

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Student Review

• I liked the book because Yehuda lived and so did
  his mom and Lala.
• I dont like that Lalas boyfriend, Lonek, dies,
  or that Father dies.
• The main message of the book was survive, live
  your life to the fullest.

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Bibliography

• The Lost Childhood
• Yehuda Nir
• Scholastic Incorporated New York, NY
• 2002