IN MY ENEMY'S HOUSE

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Summary: Amazing
Review: When I first picked up this book I thought it would be like all the other ones I have read. I was wrong, this story is completely different, Marisa is a Polish Jew who, with blond hair and blue eyes can pass for a Pole. She uses her looks to go to Germany to work as slave labor, there she meets many Germans who are actually nice to hr, book really makes you think. There is a part of the book were Marisa is talking to Charlotte, a German girl who became a very good friend of hers if it was OK to hurt a sick dog. Charlotte says "Why, anyone with any decency would put an animal to death painlessly. It's just a poor, dumb creature." Marisa then thinks to herself' It had to go beyone hate, didn't it, because they'd treat a rabid dog better then a Jew.' It really goes into the issue of how Marisa can live with her enemys and eventully forgive them. I encourage everyone to read this book, even if you think you know everything about the Holocaust. Well, happy reading!

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Summary: I hope you get the same vibes out of this book as I did.
Review: When I was first told about this book I thought it would be just another book about World War II and how a Jew went into hiding to escape Hitler. This book is about a girl named Marisa and how her blonde hair and blue eyes disguises her as a Polish worker. Marisa's family is separated and she is left alone with her cousin Shmuel, who she is in love with. He knows that the only way for Marisa to survive is to get papers from a family friend and take the identity of a Polish girl and work as a servant, to hide her true identity of a Jew. So that is what she does, she goes to Germany to get work and ends up working on a large farm for a Nazi family. The longer she stays on the farm the more confused she gets about her feelings toward this family. She gets very close to the oldest daughter on the farm named Charlotte. Charlotte has a secret and Marisa has to decide to betray her and tell her father about it to protect Charlotte and her own secret or to further endanger herself and Charlotte. Marisa is surprised that Charlotte and the rest of the family treat her like part of the family. Although Marisa kind of loves the Reymanns family she also hates them for some of the things they stand for, like all the insults and their hatred towards Jews, and for basically being Nazi. Can she stand pretending to be someone she's not?
At first I didn't think I would enjoy this book very much, but it shows you different views about how people thought about Jews and Hitler. Like the view of a Jew to the view of a Nazi. Even the view of anti-Hitler groups, they hated Hitler's ideas but they hated Jews too. This book would be enjoyed by mature children and adults. I hope you get the same vibes out of this book as I did.