The Upstairs Room Essay, Research Paper

This book is about a girl named Annie De Leuuw and her Jewish family they face many problems because there Jewish. She has two sisters her mom usually has headaches. They live in a town called Winterswick the girl goes to a regular school but since what happened in the war and there Jewish so now they make fun of her and treat her bad like talk about them because there Jewish. The Jewish people look at a tree that says a lot message about what Jewish people have to do like they cant go shopping before 5:00 p.m. and usually all the things are finished. Sometimes they send Jewish people to work at places that they don’t want to, they also cant ride bikes or do a lot of stuff .

Annie’s dad didn’t want to go to work for the German people so he decided that all his family would hide. So he build a house outside of town but it took a lot of time to finish. Her mother went to the hospital to