Marika

=Marika=

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Marika is a small book of approximately 150 pages, about a small Jewish girl called Marika Schnurmacher. a small girl whos world in Hungary was very ordinary; her biggest concerns were school and the wall dividing her home into two apartments: one for her father, the other for her mother. When the Nazis took over Hungary she must fake her identity to survive the Nazi Anti-Semitism. Marika grows up during the book from 1939 to 1944, But sounds the same weather shes 12 or 16. We learn about the Holocaust the same way she dose through her first person narration. having to change her name to something less Jewish, change her ways by going to catholic church, staying away from Nazis, seeing other Jews being taking away. this story was inspired by the anthers mother true story of the holocaust. its an interesting little book for the the grade of secondary 1 or lower