Parallel Journeys

By: Eleanor Ayer

With Helen Waterford

&

Alfons Heck

Kristallnacht Luftwaffe Auschwitz Germany Loses War Hitler Takes Power Hitler Youth

Rising Action Setting Falling Action Climax Resolution

SettingHelen Alfons

Place:

Germany.

Time:

Late 1920’s

Characters:

Siegfried, Dorris

Place: Germany

Time:Late 1920’s

Characters:Rabbit, Alfons’ Family

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Rising ActionHelen Alfons

Alfons becomes a Luftwaffe pilot. He also meets the stud-muffin himself, Rabbit.

Helen and her husband are forced to the ghetto. She gives up her child to Al, who saves her from the Nazi’s.

Helen

The Russians liberate

the camps.

Alfons

Hitler commits suicide and the war ends. America invades Germany.

Climax

Falling Action

Alfons

Alfons is captured by

the Americans,

who put him on trial for his

actions.

Helen

Helen escapes from

Auschwitz, and tries to go

back to Holland.

ResolutionHelen Alfons

Helen gets home and finds her daughter. She also finds out that Siegfried died in Auschwitz.

Alfons escapes trial and goes to Canada to escape people’s questions.

BothHelen and Alfons start

teaching students about the

Holocaust.

Helen Waterford

A picture of the pin that Helen wore.

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Helen Waterford, a Jewish survivor from the Holocaust, was married to Siegfried before he died. Even though the book is called parallel journeys she still run into Alfons.

Alfons Heck

Alfons Heck, a prized member of The Hitler Youth, helps with

Kristallnacht after being “brainwashed” by Hitler, and

eventually moving on to being recruited at Luftwaffe [German

air-forces]

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Alfons at an older age.

Kristallnacht

Alfons was a part of this event, and Helen was attacked so she was

greatly affected. Many other Jews were shocked left without a place to

pray.

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Alfons was recruited at a pilot

training camp entitled Luftwaffe.

It was a great opportunity for

him to start helping the

Nazi’s.

LuftwaffeLuftwaffe

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The Red Baron and his plane.

Auschwitz

Auschwitz was one of the most deadly

Concentration/Death camps out there, and

one of the only combination of both.

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Hitler takes power

Helen was greatly affected because she had to give up her home and move to a loaded ghetto.

Alfons became a follower of Hitler, and his parent were against everything going on.

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Hitler Youth

Alfons joined the Hitler youth and joining this is how he was recruited to Luftwaffe. Helen on the

other hand was tortured by the Hitler Youth, she ran into them multiple times.

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☺GERMANY LOSES WAR!☺

Alfons was a impressively high

ranked Hitler Youth leader and ended up

on trial for execution, he managed to escape

and fled to Canada

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Destroyed Berlin.