The Devils Arithmetic By:Jane Yolen

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The Devils Arithmetic By Jane Yolen
Jewish children behind a fence at a Concentration
Camp.
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Setting

• The story is set in World War II, during the
  Holocaust.
• The author used time travel to take a modern day
  girl back to the Holocaust.
• The authors writing was easy to understand. She
  used facts about the Holocaust in her own
  descriptions.

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Event 1

• The Nazis took the different Jewish families
  from their homes and put them into cattle cars.
  The events were real but the families named in
  the book were fictional.

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Event 2

• The second event is about all the evil described
  in the book. Some of the evil things that
  happened were the cattle cars people were piled
  into, the shaving of heads, the tattooing of
  numbers, the separation of families in the
  concentration camps, and much more. All these
  events happened in different sections of the
  book, but they were all true.

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Character

• Hannah
• Young girl
• Celebrate customs based on her faith
• Jewish
• She did not enjoy celebrating the customs of her
  faith

• Abigail
• Young girl
• Celebrate customs based on my faith
• Christian
• I would have behaved differently because I enjoy
  celebrating customs of my faith

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Shaving the heads of the Jewish people.
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Personal Response

• The book was good even though it was sad.
• I liked the story because the author used the
  facts of the Holocaust with a fictional character
  to make the story seem real to me.
• The bad things that happened to the Jews was what
  I disliked the most.
• I would recommend the book to others because it
  showed how bad World War II was for the Jewish
  people.
• Even though I knew the Jews suffered, until I
  read the book I didnt know it was that horrible.
  Hitler believed that if you were Caucasian with
  blonde hair and blue eyes you were better than
  everybody else.