Eyewitness To History: Children Of War

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The difference in these 3 articles about the Holocaust is that they tell the story in a different point of view, whether it be in first point of view, third point of view, or even just in an article. Okay, well, the first article that talks about the Holocaust is Children in the Shadows, talking about the horrible Holocaust experience in a point of view mixing, fact and narrated detail. Here are some things to back up, “She heard it from Madame DeGelas, who hid Renee's family in a small apartment in Brussels, Belgium. She heard it again from the Catholic nuns who concealed Renee when it became too dangerous for her to live with Madame DeGelas.” Secondly, the second piece of text is Eyewitness to History: Children of War, is a piece that is

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