Yanek: Plot Summary

Yanek, he is a faitly happy kid. He lives with his immediate family and some of his uncles and aunts. the first thing i see of Yanek is his use of creativity, he puts on a puppet show for all of his family out of a projector that he made himself using the basic tools around his house. Krakow is the first place of the story and we come back to it later in the book. When the Germans come to take all of the jews from the area they begin to search the appartment building that Yanek's family is living in. So they try to escape and run up to the roof where theres an old piegon coop that they turn into a shelter. The family hides there for many months until they eventually get taken in the streets by german forces. When Yanek comes back to Krakow …show more content…
After he leaves we never return to Krakow. Yanek is taken because they needed more.This is the first place we learn of the main characters life at home.Yanek and he is a faitly happy kid. He lives with his immediate family and some of his uncles and aunts. the first thing we see of Yanek is his use of creativity, he puts on a puppet show for all of his family out of a projector that he made himself using the basic tools around his house. Krakow is the first place of the story and we come back to it later in the book. When the Germans come to take all of the jews from the area they begin to search the appartment building that Yanek's family is living in. So they try to escape and run up to the roof where theres an old piegon coop that they turn into a shelter. The family hides there for many months until they eventually get taken in the streets by german forces. When Yanek comes back to Krakow he comes on a cleaning detail that the Germans have given him through the concentration camp. So naturally he comes back to his house and to his piegon coop and gets a lot of old memories from his home.Yanek is taken because they needed more workers for the concentration camp, so he is then taken to the first camp of