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Submitted by rachee037 on August 21, 2005
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Eleanor Ayer’s Parallel Journeys is an informative story of how two individuals survived and fought through the dreadful time of the holocaust. The holocaust was a time in history where Adolf Hitler wanted to rule the world. He forced the country of Germany to believe they could rule the world if they didn’t have certain races and or religions of people living amongst them. He disliked anyone who wasn’t the “perfect” Aryan race. Aryan Germans have blond hair and blue eyes. The races and religions Hitler didn’t like the most were Jews, Gypsies, communists, Gays and Lesbians, and basically anyone who wasn’t exactly like him in every way. Adolf Hitler was admired by most, hated by many, and obeyed by all whether you liked it or not.
Eleanor Ayer alternates chapters in the book by telling the life stories of Helen Waterford and Alfons Heck. Helen and Alfons both grew up in Frankfurt, Germany, only a few miles from each other. They weren’t acquaintances, but they were both small children growing up in the holocaust at the same time. However, the major difference between them was that Alfons was an ardent member of the Hitler Youth, and Helen was a German Jew.
Alfons Heck was a boy of French ancestry, with dark wavy hair and dark brown eyes. His family had a farm near the town of Wittlich, Germany. The farm raised grapes for the Rhineland’s famous white wine. When Alfons was only six weeks old, his parents took his twin brother, Rudolf, and moved to Oberhausen, a large, industrial city. His grandmother talked his parents into temporarily keeping Alfons with her at her home near the Mosel River. Well, the “temporary” situation turned into one year, then two, then most of his childhood was spent living with her.
All of the German boys including Alfons that went to his school were joining the Jungvolk, the junior branch of the Hitler Youth. They had to take a test of courage, known as a Mutprobe, before they were allowed into their Schar,...
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