Annie is a six year old, jewish girl, living in winterswijk, Holland, when rumor reaches her family of a man named Hitler and his hate of Jews. she doesnt really understand what is going on. her father is constantly listening to the radio, her mother always has headaches, her oldest sister is teaching school, and her second oldest sister has a job milking cows. hitler is gathering the nazis and annie doesnt know what to make of it all.
its very interesting to hear a point of view of the holocaust from a six year olds mind. children tend to think of things very diplomatically. in the book, annie is jewish but when she hears that a jewish boy had killed a nazi, she thinks "that wasnt very nice" instead of "he deserved it, hes a nazi". annie doesnt really understand whats happening, she just wants to know why all of a sudden her friend isnt allowed to play with her anymore, then all of a sudden why she isnt allowed to go to normal school and why are the non-jewish kids chasing her and her jewish friends and yelling, "jew jew ugly mole, stick your face in a dirty hole, stick your face in a mustard pot, by tomorow jew will rot."
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