Teenagers Who Fought Against Hitler By Lauren Tarshis

The article “Teens Who Fought Against Hitler” By: Lauren Tarshis is a story about a boy Ben Kamm and his family and the challenges they faced during the holocaust. This story is about a family that is jewish and the family faced the rising politician Hitler and he offered jewish people as a scapegoat. Also Hitler was the embodiment of Germany, and the birth of anti semitism. This is where germany takes one of the darkest turns for the worst the holocaust.

Challenges were Hitler’s influence went across Europe because of this the people that were not jewish were turned on by their neighbors. Their synagogues were destroyed all of the jewish owned businesses were destroyed burned or vandalized. “By 1945 6 million jewish men, women, and children

Rage increased inside ben as conditions became increasingly deplorable, Ben had courage and found some ways of sneaking out of the ghetto and with his blond hair and blue eyes he easily blended in with the rest of the polish population. In time thought Ben soon learned that he could actually do something after all, he could join a band called the partisans.

Some partisans were hardened fighters others were teenagers they blew up factories, sabotaged railroads stole weapon shipments and disrupted the flow of german troops. In most partisan camps fighters also protected a large number of jewish families that escaped the ghetto. Ben struggled to adjust to life with the partisans, he had to learn to shoot a gun, fall asleep on the cold forest floor, to endure days in soaked clothing, and to steal polish policemen’s weapons. Danger was around every corner anyone who turned in a jew would be rewarded with franks german currency.

This is the story of Ben Kamm and how he was a part of the legendary partisans and the challenges he faced and how he had courage through it all. Also the way he played a huge part in WW2. He did so much as a rebel against