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Summary: An Excellent Start If You Are Reading About WW2
Review: I Read this book about two years ago and it left me many questions and very intrigued about the holocaust. ... When I read this book(having no idea what WW2 was about)I was shocked at how jews were treated and the people who were helpinng them. How could people treat others that way. But some are evil and its insane how Hitler manipulated all of those people into thinking like that. This kind of treatment should not EVER happen agian and we all cannot forget the past or it will effect the future, and if something is to ever happen agian we all need to speak out. I would reccomend this book to anyone who, actually I think EVERYONE should read this book. Everyone needs to know about the horror of the holocaust. READ THIS BOOK!!!!!!
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Summary: A Moving Memoir
Review: This true story about one girl's survival during the Holocaust is a testament to the power of the human spirit and the strength that can be drawn from others. Sender tells of her sadness, fear and yes happiness in a time of tragic war. The Cage is a triumph and also a memorial to those who perished during those terrible and turbulent years of World War II. I also recommend To Life, the powerful sequel to The Cage by Ruth Minsky Sender.
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Summary: The Cage
Review: The Cage is about a girl named Riva who spent her teenage years growing up in a ghetto during WWII. As the war progressed, her family members got taken away by the Nazis. It all started when Riva and her family were betrayed by one of their closest friends. The Nazis took practically everything that they owned from them, and from there things only got worse. With the lack of food and exposure cold weather Riva's younger brother, got sick with Tuberculosis. Now her and her mother knew that if they were caught with a sick family member, he would be killed. So they decided to him when needed. Soon after he became sick, Riva's mother was taken away. Riva was now orphaned with her 6 younger siblings. A social worker found out about the children living by themselves and offered to give them new homes, with loving parents. The only downside was that they would have to be separated. They didn't want to separate what little family they still had together, so they rejected the woman's offer. Together, they stayed strong believing in their mother's words that they would survive. I think this was overall a very good book. Even though it was on a very sad subject, the Holocaust, it was still very interesting to read and learn about.
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Summary: The Cage Review
Review: I though this book was very imformative about the Holocaust. I further understand the horrors the people in the concentration camps went through. However, I did not think that the book needed to be as long as it was, because some of things were repetitive. Overall I really enjoyed the book.
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Summary: A Tale of Life, Death, and Betrayal
Review: The Cage by Ruth Minsky Sender is a captivating story about a young Jewish girl, living in the ghettos of World War II.
It's about life and death through out a family. Being betrayed by the people you trusted the most in your life. Being in these conditions the young girl makes it out alive and moves to America, where even to this day she has nightmares about the terrors of the ghettos and concentration camps.
The Cage is definitely a book you would like to read over and over. I would really recommend buying this book.
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Summary: The Holocaust
Review: The holocaust drags on, Ruth Minsky Sender tells tales of a tragedy in The Cage. Tragedy struck the lives of over 6 million Jews over in Lodz Poland. During war with the Germans, along with the nazi leader: Adolph Hitler. In The Cage, You'll find out what goes on in the holocaust in detail, from a women's point of view. Ruth Minsky Sender talks about what the labor camps were, and what they had to go through. See all the Jewish men were sent to fight with the Germans and to kill there own people. The women and the children were sent to camps in Auschwitz, to work long blistering hours tending to machines in order to make supplies and other necessities that the German soldiers demand. Eight years it took the Jewish people to become free, through that they went through struggles and agony along with that came regret. This tragic event will go on in history for years to come and it shall never be forgotten. The Cage not only keeps you on the edge of your chair so too speak, it gives you a prime example that this book is one of a kind. So I suggest you pick up this book whenever you can, before it becomes a piece of history.
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Summary: awesom
Review: The cage was a book that allowed myself and others to put yourself in Riva's shoes. The book allowed you to experience what Riva was going through at the same time. It was book filled with hope and passion. You allow yourself to get carried away. I red the book in three days. Every time I tried to put the book down I could not. I wanted to know what was going to happen to Riva and her family. Who was going to live and who was going to die. Anyone who reads to book will experiences the holocaust.
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Summary: the cage
Review: I have just started this book today. I am already on chapter eleven. Once I started it, I couldn't put it down. I didn't know much about all of the hatred that was going on in 1939. But now, even after barely reading the first 11 chapters, I have a different view of what people were treated like back then. I am already anxious to see what the outcome is of Riva's life is. She is so courageous for taking on the duty of being a mother to two of her brothers at the age of sixteen. I am so thankful for all of the freedom that people have earned for us, and i try not to take it for granted.....
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Summary: Haunting
Review: What would you do if you were a Polish-Jewish 13-year old whose life was torn apart by the Nazis? What if you had to spend all of your teenage years in a Jewish ghetto in Lodz, Poland, or three notorious concentration camp? Well, if you were Ruth Minsky Sender (known in this book as Riva Minska) you would survive and live to tell your story in the form of an autobiography. "The Cage" is a brilliant book. After beginning with a scene where a grown Riva is remebering her chilhood and talking with her daughter, we are catapulted into her happy world in Poland in 1939. But Riva, her mother, and her five siblings could never guess what their future would hold. Their good (Polish) friends become ardent Nazis, they are forced to wear the yellow star, and the family is doomed to live in the ghetto. In the ghetto, there is cruel punishment, little fuel and food, and the constant threat of being deported to labor camps. And after her mother is deported, Riva (as the oldest) must keep her siblings together. The ghetto is horrific, but as the corageous family hopes for a saviour, they never guessed the horrors that awaited them at Auschwitz. There is something about this book that makes the Holocaust unbearably real. Sender expertly shows how quickly and suddenly the Holocaust took place, and illustrates simply how friends turned on them. I nearly cried when I read about Riva and her brothers in the ghetto-their for each other, their constant hope, and their hardships seemed so read to me. The fragility of life was very apparent when Riva talks aobut the concentration camps, but even then, her mother's saying, "As long as there is life, there is hope" is remembered. "The Cage" will make the horrors of the Holocaust known to you...but it will also inspire you with the story of a life lived courageously.
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Summary: the cage
Review: I highly recommend this book because it shows that if any family sticks together over time they can always pull through. This book also explains the cruelties that people suffer with different cultures or religions. People do not deserve to be exploited from something just because of their religion. I think different cultures and different religions is what makes this world such an interesting place. Human nature, being what it is, usually would mean that all people do not believe or practice the same things. "I am on the list." This phrase was put in this book and I thought it was quite interesting because it was amazing how much power the Nazis really had over the Jews. The Jews, on the other hand, hadn't any human rights whatsoever. "Do not give up." I think this was also interesting because if the Jewish people gave up then they would die for sure and they wouldn't live to even tell anyone their horrible story. Everyone has their own rights in this world and they should be able to display them and not be made fun of. You should read this book and you will learn how cruel it is to discriminate against people just for their religion. Everyone should be treated equally.
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