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Chapters 1 - 2

• NOTE: The following version of the book was used in the creation of this Lesson Plan: Ayer, Eleanor H. Parallel Journeys. Anthenum Books for Young Readers: An imprint of Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing Division, 1995. First edition.

• Parallel Journeys is a nonfiction young adult book that relates the history of Hitler’s rise to power, World War II, and the Holocaust from the real-life accounts of two very different individuals who experienced them.

• Alfons Heck was a young boy living with his grandparents on their farm in Rhineland when Hitler came to power. He became indoctrinated into Nazi ideals as a member of the Hitler Youth organization and developed into a fanatical adherent of Nazism as he rose in the ranks of this group.

• Helen Waterford was a German Jew who fled to Holland with her husband as the Nazis rose to power. They had a...

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