The Cage By Ruth Minsky Sender - 1125 Words

It has been days. I stumble, foot over foot to the crack of sunlight that beams into the car. I feel the train rock back and forth, side to side as we tumble over the tracks to a â€Å"better life.† A better life. More bread. They care about us. I hear the screech as the cars stop as we are all tossed forward. â€Å"Welcome to Auschwitz, Jews.† I hear a man scream be strong. I hear the crack of a whip and gun shots. I know they lied. The Cage by Ruth Minsky Sender is based on her experiences during World War Two in the Holocaust. Riva and her family lived in Poland before the war, but once it became occupied during the war, they along with thousands of other jewish families were moved into the ghetto where hunger became part of their everyday lives. Once they arrived they were torn away from their loved ones, and sent to concentration camps where the horrors progressed at a very rapid rate. This book is about the emotional and physical battles Riva and her family endured during the war. They may have killed us physically, but we will remain strong mentally. Names are taken from the Jews and replaced with numbers when they enter the camp. This act is an attempt to steal the Jews’ identities; however, they fight against this act of dehumanization. The Nazi’s hoped to kill them mentally by doing this. My arm burns. I look up into the blue eyes of a Nazi guard as he burns the number into my skin. I smell burning flesh and want to barf. All around me irons are being heated up. â€Å"YouShow MoreRelatedCharacter Analysis of Riva from The Cage by Ruth Minsky Sender839 Words   |  4 Pages1. Riva was truly a â€Å"smart owl† she found different ways to keep her and her brothers alive, and out of harm’s way. For instance, she managed to get herself off the Nazi deportation record that was made every week. Riva did this by making friends with the work manager who was forced to make the deportation list. Riva realized that if she kept on worrying about what is going to happen in the future it would be depressing; ins tead she thought about when she was going to be reunited with her familyRead MoreHow Hitler Became Chancellor Of Germany1164 Words   |  5 Pagesand 1945. Through an excerpt from Ruth Minsky Sender’s memoir, The Cage, the cruel and harsh treatment that was received by the Jews from the Nazis was horrific. More than one hundred concentration camps were established by the Nazis during WWII (â€Å"Germany: Establishment of the Nazi Dictatorship.†). They were starved, beaten, and exposed to all kinds of filth and disease (Bigelow and Slovey). Camp survivor Ruth Minsky Sender named her moving wartime memoir The Cage because of the Nazi’s practice ofRead MoreThe Right And Life Of Abortion1246 Words   |  5 PagesThe Right to Life â€Å"As long as there is life, there is hope† reads The Cage by Ruth Minsky Sender. Abortion is defined in the Merriam-Webster dictionary as â€Å"the deliberate termination of a pregnancy and is most often preformed during the first 28 weeks of pregnancy.† Beginning early on in history, abortions were viable solutions for immigrants, as their pregnancy rates were higher than the natives of an area or region. As timed passed, laws on abortion began to create a war on the separation of Church