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Torn Thread

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I have always been interested in the holocaust. This is the first book that I have read about this subject. It is about a girl my age named Eva who lived through the holocaust. Her father sends her to a camp where she works in a factory. There at the camp she has to learn how to stay strong and not loose hope. She has to deal with starvation, illnesess and people dying all around her. After I read this book I couldn't believe how cruel people in the world can be. I won't tell you too much more because I don't want to ruin the book. I read this book and it opened my eyes and it will open yours too.

Eva has become used to life under Nazi rule in the Polish ghetto, and must face a new world when she and her sister are taken from their father and imprisoned in a Nazi work camp in Czechoslovakia. Forced to endure harsh conditions there, Eva's world revolves around keeping her frail sister alive and longing for their family's reunion. A compelling novel for young readers.

Torn Thread was a great book. It had so much details, I couldn't
put it down. It's about two sisters that get torn apart, then reunited. In the concentration camp they meet. When the Holocaust is over they stay at the camp, then find an apartment. They also find that their father has died. Evas hair also grows back when it gets caught inside the textile machine. She gets hospitalized for a few days. Then returns to the mill. They grow up and their daughter-in-law writes the book Torn Thread. That is my review of one of the best books I have ever read in my entire life.

Eva is too young to go to the Czechoslovakian Parschnitz camp, but her father lies about her age in order to send her to be with Rachel, her frailer older sister. Rachel has been caught in a Nazi 'selection' and sent to work in the textile factory and her father thinks Eva will be safer with Rachel than in Bedzin.

Written by Eva's daughter-in-law, this story tells the privations and courage with which the two sisters survive the camp life. Eva's knitting is traded for extra food. The long lines for food, the good and bad Germans and Poles, and the terrible work conditions are all told in a factual manner, without excessive drama. The sisters endure only by sticking together.

A very well written account of camp and work conditions for the Jews during WWII.

Eva is twelve years old, living in a little Polish town, when all of the Jews are rounded up into a ghetto. There she lives for a long time with her father and her sickly older sister, Rachel. One evening when Rachel is out of the apartment where they are staying, Nazi guards come through and take a bunch of people--including Rachel. Eva and her father are terrified, not knowing where she is or whether she is even still alive. When her father finds out that Rachel is at a work camp, he arranges for Eva to be sent there also, to protect her sister.

At the work camp, life is miserable. Eva and Rachel have to take a train that only goes halfway to the cloth factory where they work, so in brutally hot or cold weather they have to walk miles every day to get to work. Once there, they must keep busy tending the looms all day, or they will be severly punished, maybe even sent someplace really awful, like the death camp Auschwitz. Eva and Rachel live one day at a time, hoping for a time when the war will end and they can be reunited with their father.

This is another powerful true story of survival during the Holocaust. It's amazing what people were able to endure. I know that people will go to great lengths to protect their family, but I didn't think Eva should always have given up so much for Rachel, and I didn't agree with their father's idea to send Eva to a work camp.

Summary:Eva and her sister Rachel are forced to work in a textile factory at a Nazi labor camp. With friends dieing all around them, Eva must do whatever it takes to keep herself and her sick sister alive until the Soviets come to rescue them. Yet as the time slowly passes by and Rachel gets sicker and sicker, Eva begins to wonder if the Soviets will come in time to save her sister, or if they'll come at all.

My opinion:This book is a wonderful example of life for Jewish people during the Holocaust. While I read the book, I felt like I was there with Eva and Rachel the whole time, feeling their pains, aches, hope, joy, sorrow, hunger, and thirst. I have read many books about the Holocaust, but so far this one is my favorite. This book makes me think about my everyday decisions and what I would do in Eva's position. This book has helped me understand about how cruel people can be and about people that live under oppression. Once you pick up this book and begin to read, it is nearly impossible to put it down.

In Torn Thread, Eva Buchbinder, her sister Rachel, and her father were forced to live in the Jewish Ghetto because of Nazi invasions in their town. Rachel and Eva were taken from their father, and sent to a Nazi work camp in Czechoslovakia. There, Eva was forced to spin thread to make uniforms for the German army. Also, her sister was very sick, and she struggled to save her sister's life...Not to mention her own. This book was so good that I couldn't put it down! Not many books can do that to me. It reminds us how badly the Jewish were treated during the Holocaust. Torn Tread definitely had a huge impact on me.

I love the book that I recently finished up. I like reading about World War II so this book really captured my interest. It's about two sisters who live in the ghetto near Poland. The two girls Ava and Rachel live with their father. One day when Rachel walks outside by herself a raid takes place and she is taken away. Ava and her father are especially worried because Rachel has a lung problem. Ava's father decides that it would be safer if Ava go to the camp her sister's at. When Ava arrives, somehow through negotiating with workers she finds her sister. They go through hard times together and at the end Rachel's life is on the line because she gets an infection from bathing in infected water. She recovers though. One of the girls' friends dies.... read the book to find out if the girls get released or not.


My opinion of this book is very strong. Reading about World War II is just so interesting to me. I find it incredible how some people could treat innocent people in such cruel ways. I don't know why I enjoy reading it a lot. I think its because I take so much interest in how they treated people. This book is especially nice because I remember my 4th grade teacher reading it to me, and I just loved it.

Torn Thread is written by Anne Isaacs

In Torn Thread the World War II experience of Jews in the Polish town of Bedzin is told through the eyes of a courageous 12-year-old girl. First, she, her family and other Jewish families are forced to move from their homes into a crowded ghetto and live in cramped spaces with limited resources. But, things get much worse quickly when Eva is separated from her beloved sister, Rachel and then her father. It turns out that Eva's sister has been taken to a Nazi-run work camp. It is here that Eva's father sends her to take care of Rachel. So, now Eva finds herself also a prisoner in a Nazi work camp and responsible for her sickly sister's well being as well as her own. In addition to this, both Eva and Rachel are separated from their father. This is a great deal of responsibility for a 12-year-old girl in horrifying times. That is the power of this story. Eva is willing and able to keep it all together. I found myself wondering if as an adult I could have withstood all that Eva did and taken care of others so well. She was a remarkable child.

The story is divided into two parts beginning with the ghetto and the work camp and ending with the last months of the war when the Russians and Americans are in the process of liberating Poland. The second part (nine chapters) lasts a time period of 6 months, which adds to the reader's experience of the prisoners waiting for their freedom. All the while, the prisoners could hear the guns of the Russians and the Americans in the distance. Throughout, the sense of fear and deprivation is quite explicit but not so much that children of 10 and above would be frightened by it. There is an epilogue and an afterward with some history to let reader's know what happened to the characters. All readers will marvel at Eva's resolve and at the courage of all of the prisoners in impossible circumstances.

Anne Isaacs does it again. This book moved me to tears multiple times, including during re-readings. Isaacs tells the story of a group of young women (focusing on Eva and her sister Rachel) who struggle to find strategies that will keep them alive in the most trying, difficult, and terrifying of situations. The book is eloquent, visual, and not the least bit over-done. Reading this book was an experience I am glad to have had.