The Meeting Lena Summary

During the meeting Lena told us her story, in the story she tells us how her friendship started with Karolina and how her life was affected by WWII. She told us that when germany invaded poland in 1939 that at first it wasn't so bad, but as time went on jews could not go to school, had to wear armbands and strict rules were created, if anyone broke these rules it resulted in beatings and death. Lena’s dad wanted to bring their town (Chrzanow) back to how it was before the Germans invaded, but the nazis found out about Lena’s dad secret resistance group, so he took precautions and told lena to hide in the attack when the Germans come and wait till its safe, and when it is safe then come down and go to the Tarnowskis so they can hide her. Hearing her story made me think about how strong Lena’s family had have to be to grow up during such hard times.
During the story Lena said,“‘throughout the occupation, my father had been outwardly compliant with the German standing orders, while secretly continuing to meet with his resistance group.”’ What this means is that Lena’s father although he seemed cooperative he still was part of the resistance. This reveals that prejudice can lead to inner strength because everyone knows that if they disobey the Nazis it will end horribly, especially if your plotting against them and are a jew. Even though Lena’s father knew this he still continued to do it because he knew that he had to make things right again. Lena also said, ‘“I have made arrangements for you to be safe. Hide. Then go to the Tarnowskis, and may god be with you.’ no sooner had he finished his sentence then we heard the squeal of tires outside the