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Good Facts, Weak Love Story

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Ruth, a teenaged Polish Jew who has been in concentration camps for the past four years, is finally free. She returns to her hometown, ready for a reunion with all of the family members she was separated from at the start of the Holocaust. Instead, she finds no sign at all of any members of her family, and her former servant is living in her house and wearing her mother's dress. Over eighty of Ruth's relatives are gone, and Ruth feels dead inside, with no hope and nowhere to turn. Even though the war is over, Jews are still targeted by the people of Poland as the enemy. With no other real options, Ruth joins up with a group of Jews who are working to get as many people as they can, especially children, into Palestine to create a new Jewish homeland. Ruth is convinced by a leader of this organization to help lead a small group of children on this journey. There are people trying to stop them at every turn, on every border. Is Ruth, who has survived concentration camps, strong enough to fight her way into Palestine? Is she brave enough to start feeling hope and love again? This story gave me a new understanding of how hard things were even for a person who had survived the concentration camps. There was a whole list of other struggles beyond that of survival. I liked how the author included flashbacks of Ruth's life before the war. I hated the romance part of the book, though. I'm not sure why this guy would like Ruth, and his character was too good to be believable.

The characters in "After The War" are very helpful.

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There are many characters that are helpful in the story After the War. One of the helpful characters is Ruth. Ruth is a natural helper. She will forget anything she is doing to help someone. Ruth is the biggest helper in the story. Another helpful character in the story is Saul. Saul had organized the whole plan to help the orphans get to a better place. The next helpful character is Nate. Nate is basically the boss in the story but he helps getting people on the boat and giving people the best options on things. The last helpful character is Simon. Simon helps in various ways. The one reason why he's helpful is because he helps the orphans mentally and socially. Those are the helpful characters in the story After the War.

After the War

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After I read this book i could understand alot more of what the jews had to go through. The reason that I only rated this book a four was because some of the details in the book made me feel a little sick to my stomach. But other than that i really loved the book. But one thing that was very real is that all really happened that was, they did have alot of grusom bloody things happen to them. I thought that is was very relistic and entertaining. I enjoyed this book alot!

this is the coolest book ever!!!!!!!!!!

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i got to read this book when i picked a random book from the library. I think that was a dam good random choisce i made!!! When i started reading this book even looking at the first sentence of the book, it creates so much intensity and suspence that it is so addictive.i always fancied world war stories. Its been like my all time favourite setting for writing and reading books. Nearly half of the writing is related to the time during the world two or after. I LOVE THIS BOOK!!!!!

This is the best book!!!!!!!!!!!!!	Customer Rating:
i love this book!!if i could give it a 1000 i would!! this book made me cry!its bout a girl named Ruth and they are in War 2...she has to take care of 11 kids...they are also tryin to get to palestine!she falls in love with a boy named Zvi! this IS my favorite book i've read! if i were u i would buy the book and tell a friend bout it too! hopefully u like it