Thanks to My Mother was a great but also sad story about what Jews had to endure during the Holocaust. The author, Schoschana Rabinovici, is telling the story herself when she was a little girl, and she went by the name Susinka. She is eleven years old when the story takes place. The story is about a Jewish family, the Indurskis, that are taken to a Cemetery in Lithuania, and there have to get sorted out between the people that will die right away, and the people that will be taken to a Concentration Camp. The little kids and the older people are supposed to be shot right away, but Susinka’s mother, Raja, puts her in a backpack and walks through the line with her, saving her. Her mother does a lot of other favors for her throughout the story and helps keep her alive longer. The Jews suffer through hunger, go without shelter, don’t have right clothing, and suffer from frost bite, and this book is showing how these people made an attempt to survive. German officers always keep them down and offer no hope to them, but the people still try. It is a great book, and I recommend everyone to read it and see what happens to Susinka and the Indurskis.
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Thanks to My Mother was a great but also sad story about what Jews had to endure during the Holocaust. The author, Schoschana Rabinovici, is telling the story herself when she was a little girl, and she went by the name Susinka. She is eleven years old when the story takes place. The story is about a Jewish family, the Indurskis, that are taken to a Cemetery in Lithuania, and there have to get sorted out between the people that will die right away, and the people that will be taken to a Concentration Camp. The little kids and the older people are supposed to be shot right away, but Susinka’s mother, Raja, puts her in a backpack and walks through the line with her, saving her. Her mother does a lot of other favors for her throughout the story and helps keep her alive longer. The Jews suffer through hunger, go without shelter, don’t have right clothing, and suffer from frost bite, and this book is showing how these people made an attempt to survive. German officers always keep them down and offer no hope to them, but the people still try. It is a great book, and I recommend everyone to read it and see what happens to Susinka and the Indurskis.
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