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Teens Who Fought Hitler Summary

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The article, “ Teens Who Fought Hitler”, by Lauren Tarshis, indicates that there are many challenges that Ben a Jewish boy, had to face and how he used courage to fight back against the Nazis. Ben Kamm lived in a tragic event that happened in the 1920s- 30s. The holocaust. Ben and his family were shoved in a ghetto with barely any food. Ben soon found that he could join a group fighting against the Nazis. He joined and snuck out of the ghetto. Once have arrived he had to sleep on the forest floor, learn to sabotage railroads, and more. It was nerve wracking , you could be shot at any moment. But happily he lived and died of a sickness or maybe old age but not shot by the Nazis. Ben and the other people fighting against the Nazis had a

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