Romek post #1

1) When I did the Family History project, the relative I chose, My grandmother, talked about the German-Austrian "Anchluss" the annex or joining of the two countries.  When we discussed and read the passage about it, i noticed a lot of similarities and differences between the story in the book and the story from my grandma. The story David talked about was very similar, when he said the austrians welcomed the  Germans with open arms, that was true. But from i Grandmother, i learned that the Austrians really had no choice, and that they had no military to defend their country and they welcomed the germans to defend their country and get them our of their recession. 

2)

A)) David's family is incredible. David is a brave boy, despite such young years. He is also brilliant, and comes up with many ways to keep himself alive. Romek is very funny, but he seems sometimes serious, and if he were to get in trouble, he would be able to come up with something to get out. David's dad is also a good person, he cares so much about his family, same goes for his mom. Unfortunately, not much has been said for his sisters at this point in the book so i cant really tell what theyre like but them seem like good people. 

B)) I think the first reason is that in this part of the book he is still young so he could remember more. and secondly it could be because the conditions he's living in are still good.  Later in the book since David gets  put in a concentration camp, he may lose some of his memory because he is being starved and worked really hard.

3) David is a brave and resourceful boy. He has a strong sense of whats's right, because he made the decision to save his father even though it was dangerous and probably stupid.  In the book, in the scene where he is rescuing his father, his spur of the moment thinking helps him come up with a plan to get his father onto the roof so they can escape the nazis. This is smart because it was the only thing that would work. If they tried to run, they would have sure been shot.