Over the past month I have been reading Izzy’s Fire Finding Humanity in the Holocaust. This book is nonfiction, and is based on a true story about a Jewish family living through and trying to survive in the Holocaust when Hitler was in power. This story is in the point of view of Eta Ipp (Edna Ipson), one of the main characters. This book was published in 2005 and was written by Nancy Wright Beasley. She was born in September 2, 1945 and is still living today. She grew up in Christiansburg, Virginia and got her bachelor's degree from Virginia State University in 1981. Nancy has also published 3 books in total with the other two being Purple Zebra: Essay of a Different Stripe, and The Little Lion : A Hero in the Holocaust which is connected to one of the main characters (Izzy) in Izzy’s Fire Finding…show more content… Executing of the Jews got worse and worse, and if you couldn’t work then you were seen as worthless and would be killed. This meant they went after young children and the old. Sadly their infant daughter Masha ended up dying in the beginning from sickness. But Izzy and Edna still had Jay and decided to try their best to escape the ghetto to save Jay. With the help of Leibel (Izzy’s cousin) they escaped successfully and also with the help of Uncle Itzhak (Edna’s uncle) they hopped farms until finally finding a farm to stay at. On page 100, 2nd paragraph it states “The night after the company went away, Itzhak came and talked the family into keeping us for a while longer. I don’t know how he managed, but he was such a persuasive man. The Gestapo had already been in town looking for Jews. The family’s son-in-law was a policeman, and that gave them some protection, but they were still afraid to be involved. Itzhak proved so persuasive, though, that they couldn’t turn him down. Itzhak
