Her mother is then taken away in a Nazi raid because she seems to be ill and not fit to work, after her mother’s deportation a social worker tries to find new homes for the children, potentially separating them. Riva fights against them and later becomes the guardian of her brothers at the age of sixteen. As their journey continues on Riva fights sickness, …show more content…
This is where they were in hiding for many years after their mother was taken. Eventually they are deported and moved all throughout Poland. The book deals with the holocaust starting in 1939 and continuing to 1945 ending after Riva makes it to the US and starts a life for herself. The person writing this book is Ruth Minsky Sender she wrote this novel about herself using her Yiddish name to show the world what she went through and her experience throughout the camps. There is no bias expressed throughout the book because she wrote it as what had happened to her, wanting to share her story with the world. The viewpoint on this book is that what the Nazi’s did was wrong, it showed that the Jews were innocent and many of them had no idea what was going …show more content…
When coming to America she was accepted unlike how she was wanted to be killed in Europe, this shows that in terms of U.S. History that America accepted everyone no matter who they were. The book was not written in the time this occurred, this probably happened because the author need time to recuperate from what had just happened to her. She more than likely need time to fully understand what she had just went through, and she needed to heal and to be able to talk about it without falling