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| '''''The Devil's Arithmetic''''' is a ] written by American author ] and published in 1988. The book is about Hannah, a ] girl who lives in ]. During a ], Hannah is transported back in time to 1942 Poland, during ], where she is sent to a ] and learns the importance of knowing about the past. | |||
| ''The Devil's Arithmetic'' won the ] (in the category for ]) in 1989<ref>{{dead link|date=April 2012}}</ref> and was also nominated for the ] in 1988.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://janeyolen.com/awards/ |title=(Awards & Nominations) |publisher=Jane Yolen |date=May 18, 2003 |accessdate=April 29, 2012}}</ref> The script for ] , a 1999 Showtime movie starring ] and ], was also nominated for a Nebula Award.<ref>{{cite web|title=Year 2000 Nebula Nominations (Press Release)|publisher=SFWA (Science Fiction Writers of America)|url=http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:L5uEHqjPVMcJ:www.sfwa.org/members/nebula/NEBPub1.doc+Devil's+Arithmetic+site:http://www.sfwa.org/&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&source=www.google.com|date=April 15, 2000|accessdate=February 21, 2011}}</ref> | |||
| ==Summary== | |||
| Hannah Stern is a young Jewish girl living in the present day. She is bored by her relative's stories about the past and not looking forward to the Passover Seder. She says she is tired of remembering. When Hannah symbolically opens the door for the prophet ], she is transported back in time to 1942 in Poland of ]. At that time and place, the people believe she is Chaya Abramowicz, who is recovering from ], the fever that killed Chaya's(Hannahs)parents a few months ago. The strange remarks Hannah/Chaya makes about the future and her inability to recognize her "aunt" Gitl and "uncle" Shmuel are blamed on the fever. At her uncle's wedding, the Nazis come to transport the entire population of the village to a concentration camp near Donavin, and only Hannah knows all the terrors that they will face: starvation, mistreatment, forced labor, and finally execution. She struggles to survive at the camp, with the help of a girl named Rivka. At the concentration camp, Aunt Gitl, Hannah, Uncle Shmuel, and some other men try to escape. The men are caught and are shot in front of also the inmates, except for Gitl and Hannah who return to their barracks and Yitzchak who escapes. Later, when Hannah and the girls from Viosk are talking, they are caught by a Nazi soldier, and Hannah, Shifre and Rivka are sent to the gas ovens. As Rivka is about to be sent to the gas chambers for not working, Hannah takes Rivka's place and tells her to run. Then, after she walks into "Lilith's Cave" to be gassed, she is transported back to her family's Seder. She notices Aunt Eva's number was the same as Rivka's, and while recounting her experience to her aunt, the aunt reveals that when she was in the concentration camps, she was called Rivka (and her brother was called Wolfe, which was Grandpa Will) and was saved by a girl named Chaya Abramowicz. | |||
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| * Yolen, Jane (2010). ''The Devil's Arithmetic''. New York: Scholastic. | |||
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