This novel opens with the town of Badenheim getting ready for the annual summer music festival with some average Jewish guests. The guests think they are going to Badenheim and relax and have fun like they normally do. There’s only one problem with this idea, the Sanitation Department has other plans for these well to do Jewish guests. The Sanitation Department starts carrying out many inspections that ask random questions about the guests. The next thing is they request the registration from each one of the Jewish guests.
“ In the middle of May a modest announcement appeared on the notice board saying that all citizens who were Jews had to register with the Sanitation Department no later than the end of the month.” (p.20)
What the guests didn’t know was that when they registered, they were really signing
This novel discussed how on high power government department can take away the rights of a person on the grounds that they are Jewish. Then leaded to their death. This is how the Holocaust, on of the greatest tragedies in the world started. Millions of lives were taken because they were Jewish. This novel is an example of how one persons life can be stripped of all they have and turned over to into the hands of a killer.
Going to Poland was sending the Jewish guests straight into the gas chambers, unfortunately the guests had no idea. The guests were so oblivious to everything going on around them. It’s amazing how the Sanitation Department could come into this town and completely take over everything including the people’s lives.
None of the guest expected the worst. Everyone just went along with the De