The Holocaust was a systematic way of killing jews. During the Holocaust five to six million jews were killed. There was about 9.5 million jewish people in europe in 1933 in 1950 about 3.5 million were still alive. One similarity between the text is that in the text “until then I had only read about it in books” and “the guard” they had both had the characters that were scared because of the jackboots/nazis hurting or killing them. In “Until then I had only read about it in books” it shows that they are scared because it says “I hated having to hear them search for
