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conversations.value: What could be a title for a book about War, Chaim, Up"To with the genre: Literature & Fiction, Poetry?
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conversations.value: A title for this book could be 'Mapping the Bones'
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conversations.value: What is the first five paragraphs for this book?
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conversations.value: Mapping the Bones
  Chaim leaned forward so that he was almost touching Bruno with his head and spat three words at Bruno's face. "Why should we?" He spent those words as if they were gold coins. But he knew they weren't enough. "What have... have... have... you..." He needed to take a deep breath, waiting out the stutter, before he could finish the sentence. But Bruno was already too shocked to protest.
  He sighed heavily. "Are you comfortable in a coffin, woman?" Papa drew in a shallow breath. "For that's the only place the Nazis would have us lay our heads."
  Chaim felt his stomach turn over. He glanced at Gittel, who had a look of horror on her face, one hand twisting her long braid, as if too shocked to signal to him.
  Mama's eyes glittered with unshed tears. "Then tell us your plan, my darling. And we will try and make do."
  It is always important," Papa said, as if he were giving a lecture in his old school on how to build a cabinet or make a chair, "to start with a plan. We'll call this one Plan A."
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conversations.value: What is two more paragraphs?
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conversations.value: He shook his head almost imperceptibly, pursed his lips. Enough to warn them. Enough to calm them. But not enough to be beaten by Madam. That was something he could do.
  They followed Madam Szawlowski through an inner door to a very large room filled with machines manned by children, some of whom Chaim recognized from Barracks 3 and breakfast. The machines were making ratcheting and squeaking noises. They spat out grease, which sounded like a small rain as it hit the walls, the floor. One machine even groaned as if protesting its usage. Or its age.
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conversations.value: What is the last four paragraphs?
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conversations.value: Yes, there was a ghetto for Jews in Łódź. And yes, "King Chaim" ruled there with a council of Jews, under the eyes and hard hands of the Nazis.
  Yes, children were smuggled out of the ghettoes (though more notably out of Warsaw than Łódź). I've modeled Irena after the amazing Jolanta (Irena Sendler), who helped smuggle 2,500 babies and small children out of the Warsaw Ghetto, in suitcases, ambulances, and other ways.
  Yes, Polish Jewish children over the age of twelve after the invasion of Poland (as well as lower-class Polish Christian or Catholic children over the age of fourteen) were used in forced labor camps—some kidnapped right from their homes. These labor camps were established in decimated villages where most of the adults had been killed outright, but none of the camps near the Romanian border was called Sobanek. I used the beginning of the name of the infamous Sobibór and added part of Majdanek's name—both labor/death camps in that part of Poland.
  The use of forced labor grew more and more prominent from 1939 on. Many children and adults died through what the Nazis despicably called "annihilation through work." Between 1942 and 1945, there were hundreds of subcamps (usually as parts of concentration camps), but I have opted to have Sobanek function specifically as a munitions labor camp to honor a Polish Jewish friend of mine who was a child in one like it. These camps, according to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's website, "were established adjacent to coal mines, munitions and aircraft parts factories, sites for underground tunnels and other sites convenient to production of goods for the German war effort."
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conversations.value: Delete the last sentence.
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conversations.value: Yes, there was a ghetto for Jews in Łódź. And yes, "King Chaim" ruled there with a council of Jews, under the eyes and hard hands of the Nazis.
  Yes, children were smuggled out of the ghettoes (though more notably out of Warsaw than Łódź). I've modeled Irena after the amazing Jolanta (Irena Sendler), who helped smuggle 2,500 babies and small children out of the Warsaw Ghetto, in suitcases, ambulances, and other ways.
  Yes, Polish Jewish children over the age of twelve after the invasion of Poland (as well as lower-class Polish Christian or Catholic children over the age of fourteen) were used in forced labor camps—some kidnapped right from their homes. These labor camps were established in decimated villages where most of the adults had been killed outright, but none of the camps near the Romanian border was called Sobanek. I used the beginning of the name of the infamous Sobibór and added part of Majdanek's name—both labor/death camps in that part of Poland.
  The use of forced labor grew more and more prominent from 1939 on. Many children and adults died through what the Nazis despicably called "annihilation through work." Between 1942 and 1945, there were hundreds of subcamps (usually as parts of concentration camps), but I have opted to have Sobanek function specifically as a munitions labor camp to honor a Polish Jewish friend of mine who was a child in one like it. These camps, according to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's website, "were established adjacent to coal mines, munitions and aircraft parts factories, sites for underground tunnels and other sites convenient to production of goods for the German war effort.