Compare And Contrast Whitman 'And Chavel's'

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Pavel Freeman and Krystyna Chiger

There’s two ways out, death, or the unthinkable. Those were the choices Pavel Freeman and Krystyna Chiger were given. Both of these authors wrote a poem or article about freedom and their experiences during the Holocaust. This event happened in 1942 during WWII. Both the ghettos they wrote about were in Poland. The were taken there because of the Jewish relocation. Krystyna got out by the sewer, Pavel got out by dying.
The Holocaust was responsible for over an astonishing amount of 6 million deaths!
These articles are similar in many ways. First, both are about their experiences during the Holocaust. Pavel’s is about watching a free butterfly flying away while he’s trapped in a ghetto. The other is about

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