I need some quotes from the book "The Devil's Arithmetic" by Jane Yolen?
You are a name, not a number. Never forget that name, whatever they tell you here. You will always be Chaya--life--to me." We all have such stories. It is a brutal arithmetic. But I - I am alive. You are alive. As long as we breathe, we can see and hear. As long as we can remember, all those gone before are alive inside us."
Devil's Arithmetic, Hannah's number on her arm?!?
I think it's J19724.
Summary of the Devil's Arithmetic by Jane Yolen?
Synopsis: Hannah dreads going to her family's Passover Seder. Her relatives always tell the same stories, and Hannah's tired of hearing them talk about the past. But when she opens the front door to symbolically welcome the prophet Elijah, she's transported to a Polish village -- and the year 1942. Why is she there, and who is this "Chaya" that everyone seems to think she is? Just as she begins to unravel the mystery, Nazi soldiers come to take everyone in the village away. And only Hannah knows the unspeakable horrors that await. from the author: I had thought about doing a book on the Holocaust for a long time, but quite frankly the idea overwhelmed me. Finally one of my editors, who was a rabbi's wife at the time, persuaded me to confront the task. Writers and storytellers are the memory of a civilization, and we who are alive now really must not forget what happened in that awful time or else we may be doomed to repeat it. This book is about a Jewish teenager who--much like me at that age--hated the idea of having to remember so much Jewish history and ritual. At a family seder, she opens the door to Elijah and finds herself whirled back in time to a Polish Jewish shtetl in the 1940s. There, though she alone understands what will happen to the villagers, she is taken with them to a concentration camp. This is a story of the quiet heroism in the camps and why we must bear witness to history. There is a German/Austrian edition of the book. It won the Sydney Taylor Award from the Association of Jewish Libraries, the Jewish Book Council Award, the Maud Hart Lovelace Book Award, and was a Nebula Honor Book. It was also on the 1992 Kentucky Bluegrass Master List, a Florida Children's Book Award nomination in '91-92 for grades 6-8, and was on the 1994 Illinois Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Book Award master list.
Historical fiction for people who hate historical fiction?
I would recommend Forever Amber by Kathleen Winsor. It's about England in the time of Charles II and you see the plague and the great fire in London and the decadent court of that time. It's quite good. You may enjoy Outlander by Diana Gabaldon, too. Claire is hurled from 1945 (right after WWII) into the 1700s in Scotland. It has a lot of detail, about Bonnie Prince Charlie and even about the disastrous Battle of Culloden. It is also very romantic and very good. (This is the first in a series, but it stands alone. However, if you like it, you'll have more books for which to look forward!) Georgette Heyer wrote a lot of historical fiction from Medieval times to Regency. Her book Regency Buck is very good, and explores London and Brighton during the Regency era. The Nonesuch was another good one. I enjoyed a lot of her books. There are many more, of course, but hopefully you'll find something you really can enjoy.