They develop a strong relationship like a big brother and little sister.īarney is a Jewish dentist who selflessly risks his life to try and save the children. Zelda is the young girl rescued by Felix after her parents are killed. But even as the truth gradually reveals itself to him, he remains kind and concerned for others. At the beginning of the novel, Felix seems naive to the realities of the war. "Everybody deserves to have something good in their life at least once."įelix, the narrator, is an optimistic boy who loves books and uses storytelling to comfort himself and others. However, when Felix and Zelda get a chance to escape, they grab it with both hands. But in the end even Barney cannot save them from the Nazis and they are forced onto a train heading to a death camp. They are rescued by a brave man, Barney, who takes them to a hidden cellar, full of other rescued children. Before long, the two children find themselves in a Jewish ghetto in the city. Soon after he leaves the orphanage, Felix rescues an orphaned girl, Zelda, and brings her along on his journey. It is told through the innocent eyes of 10-year-old Felix, who is living through the Holocaust. Once by Morris Gleitzman is a novel set in Poland during World War 2. Once there was a young Jewish boy called Felix, who ran away from an orphanage in the mountains and set off on a journey in
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