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Hey =] discuss over this page. nanyou ok. ill start. so far in this book, a girl is teleported i think or warped, timetravelled, i don't know what, to when the Nazis were putting jews in concentration camps. the girl in this story tries to warn everyone about the nazis,but they don't believe her. i predict that the girl will be able to escape from the camp and return to her own time.

nanyou i am going to summarize what happened so far in the book. here's what happened, the main character in this book has to go to a family Jewish celebration. at the celebration, she has to open the door for the prophet Elijah. but when she opens the door, she travels back in time to a village in Israel i think. there she meets the villagers and someone who claims to be her aunt. one day at the village, a couple gets married. then during the wedding, the Nazis come and take the whole village to a concentration camp. at the concentration camp, the nazis shave their heads, give them numbers, and take away their things. at the camp, the main character meets a girl and they become friends. the girl help her to get shoes and a good job. that is what happened so far.

Juan Rodriguez I think that the devil's arithmatic is a really good book. at the beginning I wasn't to happy to to hbe reading this book at the beginning of the book hannah seemed like a spoiled girl that didn't care of her cultural past or about her family's past. But after beign sent back in time to world war 2 and put in a consentration camp hannah began to understand and care for her cultural past and felt her ancestors suffering and pain herself. I would highly recommend this book to someone that is jewish and want's to learn of he or she's ancestor's past or someone interested in www 2.

Alvin Ruan I think that the Devil's Arithmatic was a okay book. In the beginning i couldn't get into the book. After a while i like reading it. I thought Hannah was too spoiled. When she opened the door i think she went back to poland wedding i think. then when after she experience the pain her family been in the aushwitz i guess. Now she think it is good to remember the past. It was a horrible memory but she gotta remember it. nanyou nice job juan you posted. now i don't have to start talking to myself. ok. i don't really like this book. i don't like this book because i don't like reading about the holocaust.

nanyou here is the character timeline:
 * hannah has a family passover celebration.
 * hannah opens a door during the celebration and gets transported to a village in 1942 several days before passover.
 * the village that hannah is in has a wedding.
 * during the wedding the nazis come and take everyone from the village to a concentration camp
 * the village arrives at the concentration camp
 * the nazis shaves hannah's head and gives her a number
 * hannah is trapped in concentration camp
 * hannah runs away with other people to try to survive
 * hannah escapes and is safe back at her own time. she realizes that it is important to remember the holocaust and to care about her ancestors' past. she also started liking her aunt eva.

Juan Rodriguez Here Is The Real Life TimeLine
 * Passover / eastern
 * Hannah travels back to 1942 a few days before passover / eastern
 * Nazis persecute Jewish people
 * Jewish people are put in concentration camps
 * Nazis enslaved Jews
 * Nazis killed Jews
 * The cruelty from the Nazis to the Jews led many Jews to become traumatized
 * The Nazis have war.
 * British + U.S.A surround berlin
 * Hitler dies
 * Germany or the axis surrender
 * Japan surrenders world war 2 ends