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Arthur And Josek In The Sunflower
In the novel The Sunflower, Simon Wiesenthal, recounts his time while in a concentration camp. During this time there were some Jews that were moved into a camp and others that had remained in the ghettos. A few men from the camp would sneak over to the ghetto to gather any information, whether it be good or bad, to share with the others in the encampment. At this point it was rare to receive any good news as most news was bad and they always expected to worse.
Arthur and Josek belonged to Simon’s small group and were his closest friends. Josek was very strong in his Jewish faith, but Arthur and Simon did not share his same strength. Josek would try to uplift and share his knowledge with them as much as possible. Josek had gone to the ghetto
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