A Book that Shaped Me: Remember Me by Irene N. Watts
Remember Me is about a girl named Marianne who is Jewish and is living at the time of the Holocaust (1939-1945). Marianne has to leave her parents and go with other children on a train called Kindertransport (Kindertransport were trains that brought Jewish children to safety in Britain during the Holocaust). When she gets to Britain, she has to go and live with a stranger named Mrs. Abercrombie Jones. Strangely, Mrs. Abercrombie Jones acts like a mother to Marianne even though she is very disappointed when she sees that she was to take Marianne into her home while she was expecting someone else.Throughout the book, Marianne is suffering because of how much she misses her family. At the end of the book, Marianne’s mother comes to her and she gets to live with her mother again.
Remember Me by: Irene N. Watts really impacted my life. Remember Me is a fiction book, but it was based on Irene N. Watts’s experience during the Holocaust. The book has so much detail and it describes what Marianne’s life was like so well that I could really imagine it. Before reading the book, I didn’t know a lot about the Holocaust. Now I feel I understand how it felt to a child who went on a Kindertransport. Marianne …show more content…
It is trying to show a Jewish kid’s feelings and thoughts during the Holocaust. Also, I learned from the book that not a lot of Jewish kids in the Holocaust could go on Kindertransport and that the ones who couldn’t go had to go to a German jail or try to escape. The book tells about how Jewish kids were very frightened when they had to leave their families. Remember Me is a very good book because it has a lot of facts about the Holocaust which makes it very educational and because Irene N. Watts actually experienced being in the Holocaust I feel now that I learned a lot and I understand how the children on Kindertransport felt during this
Remember Me is about a girl named Marianne who is Jewish and is living at the time of the Holocaust (1939-1945). Marianne has to leave her parents and go with other children on a train called Kindertransport (Kindertransport were trains that brought Jewish children to safety in Britain during the Holocaust). When she gets to Britain, she has to go and live with a stranger named Mrs. Abercrombie Jones. Strangely, Mrs. Abercrombie Jones acts like a mother to Marianne even though she is very disappointed when she sees that she was to take Marianne into her home while she was expecting someone else.Throughout the book, Marianne is suffering because of how much she misses her family. At the end of the book, Marianne’s mother comes to her and she gets to live with her mother again.
Remember Me by: Irene N. Watts really impacted my life. Remember Me is a fiction book, but it was based on Irene N. Watts’s experience during the Holocaust. The book has so much detail and it describes what Marianne’s life was like so well that I could really imagine it. Before reading the book, I didn’t know a lot about the Holocaust. Now I feel I understand how it felt to a child who went on a Kindertransport. Marianne …show more content…
It is trying to show a Jewish kid’s feelings and thoughts during the Holocaust. Also, I learned from the book that not a lot of Jewish kids in the Holocaust could go on Kindertransport and that the ones who couldn’t go had to go to a German jail or try to escape. The book tells about how Jewish kids were very frightened when they had to leave their families. Remember Me is a very good book because it has a lot of facts about the Holocaust which makes it very educational and because Irene N. Watts actually experienced being in the Holocaust I feel now that I learned a lot and I understand how the children on Kindertransport felt during this