Obstacles of a Holocaust Surviver

          Hostage To War by Tatjana Wassiljewa is a memoir. The story is about Tatjana, a girl who was sent as a captive laborer in 1942 during World War II. The memoir goes over her childhood, where she strived for food, her captivity and how her life was like in the camps, and her freedom at the end and what she did when she was out of the camps.

            I think that the external conflict that Tatjana went through before the war was fighting for her life. Her family had very little food and Tatjana's mother had to put in her all to find food for her kids and husband. An example of having very little food is when Tatjana said, "We had had nothing to eat for many days. Not even the smallest crumb." Tatjana's way of over coming this was walking 100 kilometers which is about 62 miles to the corn regions to support her family during a really bad snow storm. This really shows how she put her family before anything. Tatjana could've easily died from starvation and hypothermia but she did all that she could as a young 13 year old girl to help her family. Hard work pays off though because at the end of her journey, she was able to feed her family.

Looking '4-ward' to 4th quarter.

I think that the most exciting thing that I look forward to is the end of the year trips, dinner dance, and most of all graduating. I feel like the school year flew by and in a month I'll be graduating!