Teenagers Who Killed Hitler Summary

The article, “Teens Who Fought Hitler, by Lauren Tarshis, describes the hardships of Ben a jewish boy who left his family and the ghetto went to go join the partisans and fight against Hitler and his Nazis during the events of WWI When ben was young he was just a boy until hitler and his nazis came around and put them all in the ghetto. then Ben hered he could help in the fight against hitler by joining a team of rebels but had to leave his family and was to never see them again. Then by time the war was over he had heard his family was dead and was killed by nazis. Though He lived through horrible and unimaginable challenges, Ben and his group of rebels would show tremendous amount of courage trying to Stop hitler in his tracks stop the holocaust and save the …show more content…
Hitler offered a scape goat to the people who felt humiliated and tired and that was, “Eliminated jews,” Hitler proclaimed,”and you will eliminate all of germany's problems” (6) This quote started and flamed the events of the horrible Holocaust where the jews were enslaved, starved, gassed, and just kill of the street. One of the challenges that Ben had to face during the holocaust was when him and his family were stuffed into the ghetto by the Nazis. The text states,”Some 400,000 Jews were crammed into the ghetto.(8)” .another piece of text evidence says,”His family was living in despair, sharing their single room with three other families.(9)”This was a challenge because when hitler put all the jews into the ghetto it was super small and extremely limited because they did not have enough food or room for personal space for one another. They also were not allowed to go outside of warsaw or they could be killed on the spot. Another one of the challenges that Ben had to face during the holocaust was that he struggled to adjust to the partisan life. The text states,”Ben