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Run, Boy, Run

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This is one of the best books I've ever read. Uri does a very good job telling about the children of the holocaust. The book is about a Jewish boy named surlick. Surlick loses his family and has to live by himself. Surlick meets many kind people who let him live with them. Surlick also finds out that not all the nazi soldiers are cruel to Jews. I liked this book because it shows you what it was like to be Jewish during world war two. If you want to find out what happens to surlick you should read the story. Some other books I recommend by Uri are THE ISLAND ON BIRD STREET, THE MAN FROM THE OTHER SIDETHE LADY WITH THE HAT, and the LED SOLDIERS

The book is well written and tells a remarkable story. It's a good book to read along with a teen/pre-teen to talk about what the reality of war, anti-semitism, etc. The fact that it is told from a child's perspective makes it all the more compelling. A few themes are mature (a brief mention of animals mating, a glimpse of a romantic meeting between a girlfriend/boyfriend), so I wouldn't recommend it for a child below the age of 11 or 12, unless you are comfortable explaining!

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Run, Boy, Run is a book written by Uri Orlev translated from Hebrew by Hillel Halkin. Srulik an eight year, old Polish, Jew. When World War 2 started he and his family were split up. He was sent off to a camp where he started learning about surviving in the wild but when the Germans raided it he was forced to leave.

I would not recommend this book to any of my friends but it was worth while. It starts off fast with Srulik getting in fights with his mom about food and then Germans attacking his entire city. After this the book slows down for a long time, until he the Germans find him and are after him again. His father is in the back seat of their car, he gets out and talks to his son he tells Srulik he has to have a new name, Srulik tells him that he does and it is Jurek. His Father tells him he has to act like a Christian, and learn how to cross himself. He also tells him what ever happens he has to remember that he is a Jew. Towards the end of the book Jurek starts thinking that being a Jew is a sin because he has been listening to all of the Christians so much.

There were some parts of Run, Boy, Run that, were not appropriate for younger children. There were some parts of this book that were not explained; there were some parts where they skipped years without explaining anything at all so by the end of the book you could not tell how old he was. This book did a good job explaining what it was like during the Holocaust, and what people had to do to survive and not get captured by the Germans. Some times he lived for months in the wild and had to eat slugs and other animals like many other Jewish people during that time. Other times he could get by as a Christian living with and working for people. I personally did not like this book but for children who want to learn more a bout the holocaust it is a good book.

Run, Boy, Run is a book written by Uri Orlev translated from Hebrew by Hillel Halkin. Srulik an eight year, old Polish, Jew. When World War 2 started he and his family were split up. He was sent off to a camp where he started learning about surviving in the wild but when the Germans raided it he was forced to leave.

I would not recommend this book to any of my friends but it was worth while. It starts off fast with Srulik getting in fights with his mom about food and then Germans attacking his entire city. After this the book slows down for a long time, until he the Germans find him and are after him again. His father is in the back seat of their car, he gets out and talks to his son he tells Srulik he has to have a new name, Srulik tells him that he does and it is Jurek. His Father tells him he has to act like a Christian, and learn how to cross himself. He also tells him what ever happens he has to remember that he is a Jew. Towards the end of the book Jurek starts thinking that being a Jew is a sin because he has been listening to all of the Christians so much.

There were some parts of Run, Boy, Run that, were not appropriate for younger children. There were some parts of this book that were not explained; there were some parts where they skipped years without explaining anything at all so by the end of the book you could not tell how old he was. This book did a good job explaining what it was like during the Holocaust, and what people had to do to survive and not get captured by the Germans. Some times he lived for months in the wild and had to eat slugs and other animals like many other Jewish people during that time. Other times he could get by as a Christian living with and working for people. I personally did not like this book but for children who want to learn more a bout the holocaust it is a good book.

RUN, BOY, RUN



I LOVED THIS BOOK BECAUSE IT WAS VERY EXIDING AND VERY HARD TO PUT DOWN. NINE-YEAR OLD SRULIK FRYDMAN IS A JEWISH BOY LIVING IN THE WARSOW GETTO DURING THE HOLOCAUST. HE HAS TO RUN AWAY TO THE POLISH SIDE AND GET AWAY FROM THE GERMANS. HE LEARNS TO BECOME A CHIRSTAIN, AND STRUGGLES TO STAY ALIVE. THIS BOOK IS A MUST READ FOR 5TH AND 6TH GRADERS.

Run, Boy, Run written by Uri Orlev and Hillel Kalken will have you running to read more. This fantastic book based on a true story that takes place during the Holocaust at the Warsaw ghetto which had been taken over by Nazi soldiers. It is not like any other Holocaust book you have read before because it is told by an 8 year old Jewish boy named Srulik who is very worried about his family since the Nazis are taking Jewish people away. Srulik's nightmare comes true when the Nazis take his mother away. Soon after, he has a brief time with his father before he gets shot. His father tells him "What ever you do, just don't let anyone know you are Jewish. He follows his advice by changing his identify of being a Jew, changes his name and tells everyone he is not Jewish. Sometimes he would work on farms, or maybe hiding in a forest. Where ever the day would take him to keep him away from Nazi soldiers. As tough as it is, he gets wounded and looses an arm. He must learn to live everyday life with one arm. The book all fits together as one very nicely. In the beginning, it tells you what life was like as a Jew during that time. Then, it tells you about the motor being taken away by the Nazi soldiers and how it affected Srulik's life. After, it explains the encounter with his father and how he said to wipe your mind of being a Jew. Throughout the whole book, it tells you how he lives on his own and in each chapter there is a new form of hiding. At the end it shows how his life is coming back together when the Nazi's stop running their country. I highly recommend this book if you enjoy a great book if you are 10 or older because it is a little violent and intense. At every chapter there is a new adventure about his life of him trying to stay alive. There's a lot of suspense when you are like, "is he alive, do they thing he's Jewish". I have read many different Holocaust books and this one is no doubt the best. You can also really feel the story better because it is based on a true story. Run, Boy, Run!

Run, Boy, Run written by Uri Orlev and Hillel Kalken will have you running to read more. This fantastic book based on a true story that takes place during the Holocaust at the Warsaw ghetto which had been taken over by Nazi soldiers. It is not like any other Holocaust book you have read before because it is told by an 8 year old Jewish boy named Srulik who is very worried about his family since the Nazis are taking Jewish people away. Srulik's nightmare comes true when the Nazis take his mother away. Soon after, he has a brief time with his father before he gets shot. His father tells him "What ever you do, just don't let anyone know you are Jewish. He follows his advice by changing his identify of being a Jew, changes his name and tells everyone he is not Jewish. Sometimes he would work on farms, or maybe hiding in a forest. Where ever the day would take him to keep him away from Nazi soldiers. As tough as it is, he gets wounded and looses an arm. He must learn to live everyday life with one arm. The book all fits together as one very nicely. In the beginning, it tells you what life was like as a Jew during that time. Then, it tells you about the motor being taken away by the Nazi soldiers and how it affected Srulik's life. After, it explains the encounter with his father and how he said to wipe your mind of being a Jew. Throughout the whole book, it tells you how he lives on his own and in each chapter there is a new form of hiding. At the end it shows how his life is coming back together when the Nazi's stop running their country. I highly recommend this book if you enjoy a great book if you are 10 or older because it is a little violent and intense. At every chapter there is a new adventure about his life of him trying to stay alive. There's a lot of suspense when you are like, "is he alive, do they thing he's Jewish". I have read many different Holocaust books and this one is no doubt the best. You can also really feel the story better because it is based on a true story. Run, Boy, Run!

In the 1980s and early 1990s, I taught the Holocaust to Jewish children at religious school from ages 11 to 14. I found the best way to approach the subject was to tell the story of real children who lived through the Holocaust. At that time, there were very few books available that were written for middle school children that told of survival of children.

This book is one of the best I have read on the subject. I find that it tells well how a child would think when confronted with the need to survive. Srulik was 8 when he escaped from the ghetto and had to learn to survive on his own in the forests and working for families that would take him in. A child that young is really too young to understand what is going on--he just knows he needs to survive, day by day. From hearing about Srulik's day-to-day interactions, we learn of the horrors he has to endure to survive and how lucky he was to make it. At the end of the book, we see how hard it was for him to abandon survival mode, and to return to his roots, keeping the promise to his father that he would never forget that he was a Jew.

This is a great book for a teacher to read to a class, a parent to read to a child, and then discuss it as it is being read. It could also be begun by a teacher, and then read in groups. Although the protangonist is under 10, it is not a book that I would give to anyone under 11, and even at that age, there should be some guidance. Life 70 years ago was so different than now, but many things today's boys especially can identify with. That helps to make this book so compelling.

The people who gave this book a rating of 1 or 3, saying that there was a lot of repetition did not realize that such repetition is what happened in real life. The book does not exaggerate or sensationalize the experience. A Jewish child, especially a young boy, would find a family that would keep him in exchange for work, but then it would get too dangerous for him to stay with that family--either because of the Nazis in the area or because of repeated severe beatings from the father. A few people tried to help, but they were often severely punished by the Germans.

This book is not just for students. It helped to know that it was based on a true story as I read it. I found the book riveting, and it helped make the Holocaust experience of such young Holocaust survivors come alive to me.

Run, Boy, Run

This book is about a Jewish boy gets abounded by his family and loses trace of them. He goes from house to house looking for work and trying to stay away from the Germans. Every once and a while he gets caught by the Germans but ends up running away. This book include meeting up with a German soldier. He meets about 15 to 20 different families. I am not going to spoil the ending because you should read this book.


I really liked this book. I thought it gives you information about hiding in the Warsaw Ghetto. I never really knew what happened in the Warsaw Ghetto until this book. I never knew that Jewish people had to go through that much to stay away from the Germans. I think this book is very interesting and I enjoyed it a lot. The book could have been longer, but otherwise, it was ok.

Uri Orlev was born in Warsaw in 1931. He spent 3 years hiding in the Warsaw Ghetto with his mother and younger brother. He now lives in Israel with his wife and their 4 children