The Devil's Arithmetic Summary

The Devil’s Arithmetic is about a girl named Hannah Stern, a Jewish girl who lives in New Rochelle, New York. She is sent back in time to experience the Holocaust. During a Passover Seder, at her grandpa Dan’s house, Hannah was transported back to 1942 Poland, during world war two. As she opens the door during Passover Seber to let prophet Elijah in, she finds herself in the unfamiliar Polish village with people she don’t recognize or know. Hannah stills remembers all her family so she thinks it's all just a dream but she is living it. Hannah is sent to a death camp and learns the importance of the past. Hannah had always complained about listening to her relatives tell the same stories of the Holocaust. At that time and place, the people believe Hannah is Chaya Abramowicz, who is recovering from from cholera, the same sickness that killed “Chaya’s” parents a few …show more content…
Since Hannah is from the future she already knows everything the jews will go through. She struggles to survive at the camp, with help from a girl named Rivka. At the camp her uncle Shmuel and a few other guys try to escape the camp and they get caught. Fayge the girl who was going to get married to her uncle was killed because she ran to Shmuel when he was about to be shot with the men who got caught. The Devil’s Arithmetic is about a girl named Hannah Stern, a Jewish girl who lives in New Rochelle, New York. She is sent back in time to experience the Holocaust. During a Passover Seder, at her grandpa Dan’s house, Hannah was transported back to 1942 Poland, during world war two. As she opens the door during Passover Seber to let prophet Elijah in, she finds herself in the unfamiliar Polish village with people she don’t recognize or know. Hannah stills remembers all her family so she thinks it's all just a dream but she is living it. Hannah is sent to a death camp and learns the importance of the