Blog 3

Blog 3 I Got IN!
Here's my post from last week.
I hope this goes through. I have tried all day to get in and it won't recognize me for some reason so I am going in under jolene.
I agree with both of you. My question and all through the book is "What is Briar Rose" I know they called Gemma Princess and Rose but where did the Briar Rose come from? Unless it was the Barbed Wire around the camp I can't guess, unless I missed that part. I enjoyed the book immensely and couldn't put it down. I never read a book quite like it in the past and present tense. At first it took me off guard about what was going on. It would seem that Becca was indeed Gemma's favorite, but she always seemed to be of no trouble, and it was always her sisters who fought and caused the problems. The book did get a little deep in the concentration camp life and the story of deaths by Josef Stashu. I enjoyed Magda and her quirkiness. And wasn't it ironic that Beccas name was Berlin? I found the statistics staggering. It is too bad that in today’s time there are people who look up to the Nazi beliefs. It makes me sick. The two girls I saw on 60 minutes are a popular singing pair dancing on a swastika on the kitchen floor and do tours with their parents promoting Nazi-isms. They disbelieve the fact that it did indeed happen.
As the author Jane Yolen wrote in the end, this is a book of fiction, Happy ever after is a fairy tale notion, not history. I know of no woman who escaped from Chelmno alive.