‘The Silver Sword’ is about a Polish family separated during the Second World War and trying to find each other again when the war is over. a simple enough story‚. This is a fictionalised but apparently based on fact story suitable for upper primary students. The story opens with Joseph Balicki‚ the father‚ escaping from a prison camp in the Polish mountains. He was the headmaster of a primary school in Warsaw until the Nazis arrested him in 1940 for turning a picture of Hitler to the wall. He
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The Silver Sword- Ian Serraillier The Silver Sword is a story about the Balickis’‚ a Polish family‚ living in Warsaw. The story is about their separation due to the Nazi injustice in 1940 and how they reunite themselves in Switzerland after the war. It took them 5 years to reunite‚ the children have grown up‚ the adults have aged but at least they are all together again‚ along with a new member of the family. The first person that was separated from the family was the father‚ Joseph
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SILVER SWORD Joseph Balicki was a Polish man who was married to Margrit from Switzerland. Together‚ they had three children. When the second world war began the Nazis took Joseph to prison in the mountains. Their children were very young when the Nazis attacked them: Ruth was thirteen‚ Edek was eleven‚ and Bronia was three. Joseph Balicki frequently tried to escape‚ however the guards always caught him. For this‚ they locked him in a room alone. But‚ he had a plan. When the guard came to deliver
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Serbs Black people 2 3 I think joseph did the right thing going to Switzerland because if he stayed in Warsaw he probably would not have found his children. But if he went to Switzerland he had more of a chance of finding someone 4 Ruth is Eden and Boronia’s big sister. She is the daughter
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From the very beginning Ruth has experienced racism against her. Rachel(Ruth) was born in Poland on April 1‚ 1921 into a Jewish family. Being that they were Jew they had to escape from the Russians and come live in America. Rachel didn’t have the easiest time growing up with being a Jew that goes to a white school. Kids would tease her by calling her a “dirty Jew” or “snicker” whenever they heard Rachel speak Yiddish (McBride‚ James) (80). Even when Rachel (now Ruth) was an adult and had children
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THE SILVER SWORD CHARACTER SKETCHES Joseph:- Joseph Balicki was the head of the Balicki family. He was the Headmaster of a Primary School in Warsaw. Joseph and his Swiss wife Margrit had three children‚ Edek‚ Ruth‚ and Bronia. He was bundled off to a prison camp in Zakyna‚ where the weather was extremely harsh. Joseph‚ was marched off to Zakyna because‚ during a scripture lesson‚ Joseph had turned Hitlers’ picture towards the wall. Someone had reported
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A little history: This story actually began some years prior when Naomi and her husband Elimelech‚ fled their hometown in Judah to escape famine. They also had 2 sons which fled with them. They moved to Moab‚ which was a town that was polytheistic and did not serve the same God that Naomi’s family served. One day‚ Naomi’s husband died and she was left with only her 2 sons. Well Naomi’s 2 sons eventually married 2 women of Moab named Orpah and Ruth and they lived there for about 10 years until
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Pepin III initiated the usage of the silver coin. As European exploration of foreign lands intensified during the sixteenth century‚ silver earned a high-ranking position on the global market as one of the most economically valuable natural resources in the world. The availability of silver increased and its popularity prompted the opening of new European and South American mines. As more mines were established‚ European governments started to issue larger silver coins‚ lessening the usage of gold
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The Sword of Summer (Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard #1) is a book about an orphaned and homeless teen who‚ after meeting his uncles comes to the realization about his father and his ancestral background. Now plunged into a new world‚ unlike the one he’s known‚ he must find a way to for him and his friends to survive and foil the plans of the scheming Loki. It is a Young adult fiction novel set in a Fantasy universe of Rick Riordan’s creation featuring characters from his other novels but
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Samurai Swords Over 1300 years ago‚ on one of the tiny islands of Japan‚ the first samurai sword appeared. Japanese myth suggests that after losing a long and hard fought battle‚ an emperor returned home with his warriors horrified to find most of their swords broken or badly damaged. After thorough inspection of the blades‚ the men realized that their failure in battle resulted from faulty sword forging and promised to craft the perfect weapon. The men prayed for inspiration‚ and on the seventh
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