"its me david" - i need help

[withagoat]

where and WHEN was the conc camp he was escaping for - turkey?
and at one point he says he wants books dated pre 1917 so "they " havent read them

?Russia

hayulp

read the book and come back and explain everything

please

he has no memory pre camp

so born in a csmp? I know in Stalinist Russia there were children born in the camps and they were left during the day in some type of nursery set up because the mothers were working all hours from early morning to late night and so they essentially grew up knewing no world outside the camp.

However if the mother was elsewhere, I cannot really see how this came about unless mother left and the father was interned, no relatives to take in the baby so the baby went to the camp too?

Stumped and clutching at straws obviously

sorry about all the tipos

lol

you on an ipad?

no I'm ashamed to say that is my best typing style

I seem to remember when we studied it in school being told the author had based it loosely on Communist labour camps, but have absolutely no evidence for this as it was all of 30 years ago and I was busy carving some boy's initials in my desk.

stupid crossouts

withagoat - read some history. There were hundreds of kids in labour camps (often secretly).

As far as I know, there weren't camps in Bulgaria. Might be somewhere in former Yugoslavia, Greece or Romania...

Haven't read the book since I was about 9, and then we were told it was a nazi concentration camp. I thought David was Jewish (but there were plenty in the camps who weren't).

cant be nazi( thansk for history tip - am a teacher)

he seems to be ONLY kid - with no memory of pre camp life.
its odd.
and no ref to his dad

withagoat - why can't it be nazi? (I know plenty of teachers who don't know everything. Maybe you do. Whatever - either my teacher or you don't know...)

;) location wise and date

Fair enough.

(I don't intend to read the thing again. Oddly though, that messes the politics of the rest of Europe up as David would simply have had to get to Thessaloniki before being safe. Maybe it is deeply confused and we are battling to make sense of a book which doesn't.)

maybe as someone said its a generic idea to look at teh whole thing of identity

Yes - a little investigation revealed it's not supposed to be set in a real time or place. (Finally - after 30 odd years - the rubbish geography in it makes sense to me...)