- All's Well That Ends Well
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- As You Like It
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Two years into the Nazi occupation of Kraków, Yanek is 12 years old. He observes as the Nazis start to build a wall to create a ghetto around his family’s neighborhood, using the Jewish people to perform their labor. All of this is a part of the Nazis specific targeting of the Jewish people; Gratz highlights their anti-Semitism as they continue to systematically separate Jews from the other Polish people and to abuse them.
Yanek’s father, however, assures Yanek that he should remain hopeful that the war will be over soon. Yanek’s reaction to Oskar’s optimism illustrates a turning point…