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Summary: Very Moving
Review: Attending a german school in 8th grade ('95), I first read this book (in it's original german) for a book rewiew and thoroughly enjoyed it. The story about a girl named Alice describes what it was like for Jews and others to travel to the concetration camps on cattle cars with the unending thirst, heat/cold, death, excrement and fear. It has a double importance for me because Mrs. Pausewang came to our area library and gave a speech on her writing. She is actually a surviving victim of the holocaust herself so she wrote this with experience. The end of the book is a really touching one as is the rest of the story. This story was one of my first favorite books. In fact, I liked it so much, I had my dad pick up a copy of it on a return trip to Germany so I would have it. Now, while doing research for my college Holocaust class I found out that it is translated into English so more people are able to read this wonderful story. Now I can finally recommend it to everyone.
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Summary: Amazing
Review: Eleven year old Alice is loved and spoiled endlessly. But when her and her grandfather are thrust onto a cattle truck with no idea of where they`re going, everything in Alice`s life changes. This book is so horrifyingly realistic. The description of the things and people surrounding Alice in the cattle truck is terrifying. You actually feel like your in the disgusting cattle truck, feeling scared and confused. And when Alice first deals with the delemma of death and the miracle of birth you feel her emotions jumping off the page. This book is really amazing in it`s reality of the horrors of the Holocaust.
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Summary: Dying in a Concentration Camp
Review: Gudrun Pausewang is an amazing author! When she wrote The Final Journey, she thought of things no one else would have...The train ride. This page turning story is about Alice Dubsky, a little girl from the West, being taken away from her home with her grandmother and grandfather. Alice witnesses some pretty scary things on this train ride, like not having a lot of food or water, and having to go to the bathroom in the corner of the cattle car. Alice also learns about what will eventually happen to her. Gudrun has explained Alice's journey so well! You will cry so hard for a very long time, I did!
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Summary: A very vivid description!
Review: I rate this book five stars. I think that it gives a realistic feel to what the Jews had to go through in the second world war. I'm fifteen now, and for years the Holocaust has fascinated me. Pausewang's book, The Final Journey, depicts how many Jews were rousted out of their houses and sent to concentration camps in cattle cars because the Germans didn't think that they were worth wasting passenger cars on. What Alice goes through on her journey to Auschwitz and the thoughts she had were the same as many people sent out in the same way. I highly recommend this book to anyone who is or isn't interested in the Holocaust.
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Summary: Good Book
Review: I really liked this book. It is a really interesting book to read. It is a short book but it has a lot of description. My favorite part was on the train when Alice was getting shipped to the concentration camp. It described how the people were crammed to geather and the smells. I think that Alice seemed scared not knowing what was going to happen. I really recommend this book to anyone who wants to learn about the holocaust. This story tells a lot about what they did and what the jews went through. It was really sad what the Nazis did to them. I give this book five stars.
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Summary: Good Holocaust Book
Review: I would recommend this to anyone. It is an excellent book that shows what it was like for the Jews from the point of view of a girl that was actually part of the Holocaust itself. The message of the novel will make you think twice before doing something bad.
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Summary: The Final Journey
Review: The book was a marvelous book but it also makes you feel grief, and sadness for the main characters. A young girl, Alice, who is Jewish, has been taken away from her home by men she has no clue are. Taken with her, were her grandparents. Alice lives with them because her parents had to myssteriously leave the country, she hadn't heard from them in a while.
Alice's granmother also dissaperas at the train station where they were taken by the strange men. So now its Alice and her grandfather left alone on the train for who know how long? Maybe days. Along with them there is a family of 5, a strange old man, and other mysterious characters you will read about. So Alice's journey begins on this train of the unknown, no idea where she is going or what will happen to her and her grandfather when they get there. While you read this book you will discover that its about good and evil and who wins doesn't matter but what really matters is that bravery faces the face of evil.
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Summary: Dying in a Concentration Camp
Review: The Final Journey by Gudrun Pausewang Morton, MackA Review by Mack
This story is story of sadness. A story about The Final Journey that millions of Jews, Gays, and Lesbians etc.. took. Millions of people died in the Holocaust and not many are still alive to tell the story. This was a story of a strong girl, with a strong will power. During WWI there were hellish deeds going on in Germany. This young girl was put through hell and back. (...) I am not going to spoil the whole book but it was ok I wouldn't recommend reading it. The ending is a real hairaiser though.
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Summary: The Final Journey
Review: The Final Journey is a story about the holocaust and a young girl and her grandfather and their troubles as they travel on a cramped train to a concentration camp. The main character (Alice Dubsky) acts like a spoiled six-year-old and through the book she slowly matures to act above her age, because of the things an older girl teaches her while she slowly becomes her friend through the long journey. The book tells all about her hardships like when her grandfather dies right in front of her eyes. Another thing that Alice learns is to share. When people are running out of food she learns to give up the only things she has left and give them to other people in more need than she is. The Final Journey is a very sad and touching story that you enjoy very much.
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Summary: Good Book
Review: This book was so sad. The vivd details of the train ride and the way they little girl "Mousie" felt was so vivid and descriptive. I'm rating this book the very best like it deserves. Gudrun Pasewang really did his homework to make this story as moving as it was. I recommend this book to ANYONE who is questing the Holocaust from the camps to the train rides to the horror everyone Jewish or not everyone felt the pain. As Alice was waiting for her parents to come back from the dentist's camp where her mother was being kept due to a tooth ache, her and her grandparents were taken away. As the horrifing ride went on she lost people she loved. Then he describes they worries she felt as she walked into the showers. I wish everyone could have the chance to read this book.
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