Torn Thread

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Summary: Decent book
Review: Eva and Rachel both live in a ghetto in Bedzin, Poland during WWII. One day, Rachel goes outside. Eva sees her getting snatched by German soldiers along with other Jews. Papa finds out she was taken to a labor camp in Parschnitz, Czechoslovakia. For Eva's safety, he sends Eva there too. At the camp, Rachel and Eva reunite. They have to work for most of the day and barely get fed. The camp is overflowing with people. Because of this, diseases like typhus and influenza spread quickly. Rachel and Eva both have to be extremely careful of what they do. Not only could they get a disease, but they could seriously hurt themselves with the machinery that they have to work with everyday.
I didn't give this book 5 stars because we never really learned much about the characters such as what they liked. Also sometimes, one chapter would be April, the next October and it didn't tell you.

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Summary: A 12-year-old Polish girl's account of life in a Nazi camp.
Review: Eva is too young to go to the Czechoslovakian Parschnitz camp, but her father lies about her age in order to send her to be with Rachel, her frailer older sister. Rachel has been caught in a Nazi 'selection' and sent to work in the textile factory and her father thinks Eva will be safer with Rachel than in Bedzin.

Written by Eva's daughter-in-law, this story tells the privations and courage with which the two sisters survive the camp life. Eva's knitting is traded for extra food. The long lines for food, the good and bad Germans and Poles, and the terrible work conditions are all told in a factual manner, without excessive drama. The sisters endure only by sticking together.

A very well written account of camp and work conditions for the Jews during WWII.

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Summary: Torn Heart
Review: I absolutely loved this book. After reading Anne Frank, I wanted to read more about what children involved in the Hitler epidemic were going through. Since I'm in the book club at school and this was on our list I read it. It was so good. I really felt for Eva, Rachel, and all the other girls. It really made me aware of what happened. I'd give this book a million stars if I could. P.S. The fact that this is a true story, and Eva is still living, makes this story all the more better.

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Summary: C.H. book project for Mrs. J
Review: I thought that the Torn Thread was a very good book, and I would recommend it to be read. It is a very good interpretation of the Holocaust. It depicts a young girl's life while living through the Nazi camps, and her struggles in dealing with her sister's disease, and getting torn away from her father.

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Summary: awesome to the very last page!!!!
Review: Torn Thread by Anne Issacs is a very powerful story. It is not easy to be twelve year old Eva living in an attic, in Bedzin, a Jewish getto.Nazi armies have been ruling the getto for four years. when eva and her sister get torn away from there home and father they are sent to be prisoners at a nazi work camp. there they get very little to eat , can't use the bathrooms with out permission, and have to slave away spinning thread to make uniforms and blankets for the much hated, German armie!

I think Anne Issacs wanted the readers to know that braveness is within every one if you belive in your self. Eva had to make many hard desicions to help her and her sick sister survive. she couldn't have done it without her braveness and courage.

this book was to my liking because there was never a dull moment. For this book action and even sadness is with in it's very memorable pages.

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Summary: A Wonderful Historical Story!!!
Review: Torn Thread is about a Jewish girl named Eda who is living during Hitler's reign. Her dad, sister, and her are forced to move into the jewish ghetto. Her sick sister and her are forced by the German Nazi's to work in a factory in Chzechoslavakia. Each day they walk, to the factory about 2 miles away in the blistering heat to the freezing cold. Do they survive? Do they get reunited with their father? Read it and find out!


Torn Thread was one of the best books I've ever read. I love books about World War 2 and knowing what went on with the Nazi's and Jews. I especially like them when they're true. This book is non-fiction, but it reads like a story. If you've ever read Anne Frank, you'll enjoy this book too. I would highly recommend this book to all who enjoy learning about what went on in World War 2, or a good non-ficiton book.

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Summary: Riveting, Often Disturbing Novel!
Review: Torn Thread was such an inspiring book. It really told of a great tell and it also let the reader know how hard it was for Eva and Rachel and all the other girls in the camp.

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Summary: awesome to the very last page!!!!
Review: Torn Thread, written by Anne Isaacs, takes place from 1943 to 1945 in Czechoslovakia. The novel is based around Eva Buchbinder's experiences in a Nazi labor camp. Anne Isaacs shows each character's feelings and actions using in-depth descriptions. While reading this novel, one actually feels the hunger and grief Eva and her friends feel while starving and working within the cruel conditions of the labor camp. Isaacs does a great job using the varied emotions and personalities of the characters to describe the harshness of the labor camps instead of bloody and intense graphical descriptions.

People interested in the harsh conditions for those in the German Nazi labor camps will love this book. If one is interested in the real facts and tragedies of the labor camps instead of a romanticized version, read this book. This novel is not difficult to read and comprehend. It just takes human compassion. One will not be able to put this book down out of concern for the lives of those in the death camps. Upon finishing this novel, the reader will have a greater appreciation for life and the freedom it now holds.

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Summary: Torn Thread
Review: Torn Thread, written by Anne Isaacs, takes place from 1943 to 1945 in Czechoslovakia. The novel is based around Eva Buchbinder's experiences in a Nazi labor camp. Anne Isaacs shows each character's feelings and actions using in-depth descriptions. While reading this novel, one actually feels the hunger and grief Eva and her friends feel while starving and working within the cruel conditions of the labor camp. Isaacs does a great job using the varied emotions and personalities of the characters to describe the harshness of the labor camps instead of bloody and intense graphical descriptions.

People interested in the harsh conditions for those in the German Nazi labor camps will love this book. If one is interested in the real facts and tragedies of the labor camps instead of a romanticized version, read this book. This novel is not difficult to read and comprehend. It just takes human compassion. One will not be able to put this book down out of concern for the lives of those in the death camps. Upon finishing this novel, the reader will have a greater appreciation for life and the freedom it now holds.