Lily
Pieramici
Thaler's Troubles
For the book report
I
read
Unforgotten
wrifien
by
Frunz Thaler.
This
was
a
nonfictional novei written
about
Thaler's
struggles
through
World
War Two. Unforgotten
mentions the concentration
camps
like
Dachau,
escaping
the army,
living without
enough
food
and
many more ordeals. There
are
many
memoirs
written
about
the challenges
through
World
War
II,
but
this
one
is especially interesting
because
it
gives
you
a
look
into
a
man
who not only
was captured
into
the holocaust,
but
was
forced
into
another
camp,
an
American
one,
but
Thaler never gives up, using
help from
his friends.
Unforeotten tells of how Thaler
strives
to
survive
through
many hardships'
One
of
the
main
struggles that Thaler
has
to
face is the
lack of food
in the
concentration
camps.
As
we
all know you
need
food to
keep
yourself
strong
and
energized.
If
you
have ever skipped
a
meal
you feel
like
you
just
need
to
rest,
but
in
Thaler's
case
there was no
rest,
it
was
hard-core
labor
all
day
and
a
few
hours
to
sleep
a
night. Thaler
went up
to
6 days
without
any
food.
In
fact food
was
such
a
challenge
for
Thaler,
he
wrote
two
chapters
devoted
to
his
food
struggles
and
him receiving food.
"There
was
great
jubilation...as
the Americans unloaded
from
big
lorries
a
lot
of
cardboard boxes
with
tinned
food...
One
tin
contained
green beans
in oil,
the other three
biscuits...
Before
I
started
eating
I
broke out
in tears"(Thaler
136-137). Thaler was
so
overjoyed
at
the amount
of
food
he
was given,
which
for
us
might
just
cover lunch,
that
he started
crying.
A.s
Thaler later mentions
"you
have
to
eat
bread
mixed
with
tears once
in your
life
in
order
to
appreciate
it's
true
value"(Thaler
137).
I
agree
with
Thaler
because
I
never
have
truly
appreciated
food, it's
just
something that
I
get
served
on
a
silver
platter,
figuratively
and
literally.
I
never
have
to
go to the
trouble of planting
seeds
into
the ground
to
make
tomatoes
than
making into
ketchup;
all
the
hard
work
is already
done
for
me.
Overall food
is something we
rarely
worry
about
and
we
are so
lucky
not
to, but
some
people
don't
have
our
luck,
like
kids in
Africa.
We
need
to
leam
to
appreciate
what
we
have
before we move on.
Every bite
counts.
Another problem
that Thaler faced was
imprisonment.
There
was
no
way that
Thaler could
escape
the concentration
camps, even
if
he
tried
he
would
most
likely
be
caught
and
killed.
Before
Thaler
is in
Dachau he
did
consider
running
away.
If
only
he
