Milkweed #5

I am reading the book “Milkweed” and the ghettos in this story are similar to the ones of reality. On the Holocaust Museums site they had stories from the Holocaust survivors. A portion of the site talked about how the transition from home in Misha’s case the shed was extremely difficult to the ghetto homes. The Nazis deprived the Jews of everything. In one case one of the Holocaust’s survivors was a rich girl. They took everything from her and now she lived in horrible conditions. She happens to recall the soldiers dragging dead bodies out of the house she was supposed to live in. The foods in ghettos were very limited and Misha happens to take the chance of getting shot just to get food. Also, in the story Misha and Janina’s family were in need of food so badly that they ended up eating rats. The harshness of the conditions they went through were terrible, and each thing the Nazis were putting them through dehumanized them each time. The hard thing to believe was that this didn’t happen too long ago, and that fact that no one knew about these events makes it even more mind boggling.