Story Of Blima Essay

Blima walked home from the bakery, as she did every other ordinary day, however, little did she know that her life was about to change right before her eyes as she was shoved into the back a car. The title of the book is The Story of Blima: A Holocaust Survivor. It is a true story covering the events of Blima’s life, written by her daughter, Shirley Russak Wachtel. This book tells the true story of Blima’s experiences when she was captured and sent to a concentration camp. The book includes Before the Storm, telling the life of Blima before she was captured; Darkness Falls, which tells her life as a prisoned Jew on the concentration camp; and Daylight, when her nightmare was finally over and she was liberated from the camp. First, Before the Storm shares Blima’s life before she was captured. Blima was just living the life of a normal teenaged girl in Poland. She worked at her family’s bakery, she had a boyfriend, and she practiced her Jewish faith freely. There were rumors of things happening to Jews in the surrounding cities around her, but Hitler had yet to hit her small town of Dombrowa. At this time, Blima’s biggest concern in life was that she couldn’t find her dress shoes for church. Blima complained to her mother,“My shoes, Mama. The new ones Tata gave me. The blue silk with the little white bow and the skinny heels. I can’t find
I really enjoyed the book, because I think learning about the holocaust is very interesting, especially learning from the experiences of an actual survivor. A strength of the book was that it had good details of her experiences. A weakness of the book was that it went too fast at some parts, and the book was very short. I learned that Blima was a very strong person. It is important to know about Blima, because we can learn from her about how to be strong in tough