A Pocket Full of Seeds

Separation by Force

Separation by Choice

House Searches

Emigration

Judaism

Hiding

Bystanders

Exposition

Rising Action

Climax

Falling Action

Resolution

Bibliography

By: Marilyn Sachs

Separation by Force

A Jewish family poses in their apartment with two young Jewish children they are taking care of, after they were released from the Djakovo

concentration camp. They were separated from their parents.

•Nicole was separated from her parents and sister when the Germans came to her house.

•The Germans took her parents and sister to a prison.

•Nicole no longer had any parents.

This picture relates to Nicole because the two Jewish children are being taken care of just like Nicole was.

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Separation by Choice•In some families, like Nicole’s, one of the parents would immigrate to Switzerland, the only non-German country. The parent, usually the father, would make sure it was safe and then send a message to the other family members, and they would meet him in Switzerland.

•Some families in the book, not Nicole’s family, had to separate when they went into hiding, so they would be harder to locate.

Departure of a train of German Jews being deported to Theresienstadt.

Nicole’s family was not deported; the train they were going to travel on was a

public train.

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House Searches•Nicole’s house was searched for anything valuable by the Germans.

•The Germans tore apart their house and left it a mess.

German police raid a vandalized Jewish home in the Lodz ghetto.

Nicole was not in the Lodz ghetto.

This picture relates to this book because the

Germans went through all of Nicole’s

house.

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Immigration•Nicole’s father was going to immigrate to Switzerland, so Nicole’s family could eventually move to somewhere safe.

•Françoise, Nicole’s best friend, and her family did the same.

Jewish refugee children look out of the train window as they leave

their parents.

Nicole was separated from her parents, like these children, but her family was taken by the Germans;

not Nicole herself.

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Judaism •Nicole’s family is Jewish by culture.

•They are also Jewish by religion, but they do not attend church.

•Nicole’s family held a celebration with all their friends and family to celebrate Passover.

Passover

Displaced persons attend a Passover seder in the Hasenecke DP camp.

Nicole’s family celebrated Passover just as theses people are, but they were not in a displaced persons camp.

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Jewish web page

Hiding•After Nicole’s parents were taken, Nicole was trying to find a place to hide and live.

•Other families, other than Nicole’s, were in hiding also.

Augusta Feldhorn stands next to a nun while in hiding. Augusta, a Jewish child, was in hiding under an assumed Christian

identity.

This picture relates to our book, because the girl in the picture is taken care of and hidden by a

nun; Nicole was taken care of by teachers at her school. Nicole

also had a fake identity like the girl in the picture.

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Bystanders•All the people of Aix-les-Bains were bystanders.

•They knew that other people in other parts of Europe were being abused by Germans, but just kept saying that the Germans would never come to Aix-les-Bains.

Pedestrians in the Warsaw ghetto walk past corpses lying on the

pavement.

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Exposition

•This story takes place between the years of 1939-1943.

•Nicole lived with her family in Aix-les-Bains, France.

•Nicole and her sister, Jacqueline, lived with the Durand’s, because their real parents couldn’t afford to take care of them.

•When Nicole was eight, Jacqueline and Nicole went back to live with their real parents.

This is a picture of Aix-les-Bains

in 1939.

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Aix-les-Bains web page

Pronunciation

Rising Action•Nicole was making new friends and spending time with her family.

•She took sweaters, that her parents made, to a farmer down the road, and some Germans stopped her, but didn’t harm her.

Members of a Polish family who hid a Jewish

girl on their farm.

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Climax•The major turning point in the story is when Nicole came home to an empty house, and found out her parents would probably never return, unlike the Nazis.

A young girl in a home for Jewish infants waiting for their

families to claim them or be adopted.

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Falling Action•Nicole was trying to find a place to live for a while until she could be reunited with her parents.

•No one would let her stay with them, because they said it was too dangerous or there was a better place for her to go.

A house in Amsterdam where over 100 Jewish people were hidden.

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Resolution•Nicole slept outside her school when no one would take her in.

•The next morning, her teacher decided to let her sleep and live in the school. They would feed her and educate her.

•They made her a fake identity so the Nazis wouldn’t find her.

Girls in a sewing class at the Adas Israel school.

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Bibliography

Separation by Force

Separation by Choice

House Searches

Emigration

Judaism

Hiding

Bystanders

Book Cover

Exposition

Rising Action

Climax

Falling Action

Resolution

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