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{{quote|''"You are a name, not a number. Never forget that name, whatever they tell you here. You will always be Chaya--life--to me." ''}}

{{quote|''"You are a name, not a number. Never forget that name, whatever they tell you here. You will always be Chaya -- life -- to me." ''}}

The Devil's Arithmetic is a 1988 [[Historical Fiction]] novel by [[Jane Yolen]] about a teenaged Jewish girl named Hannah, who is transported through time to a 1942 Polish concentration camp. Hannah goes from being disrespectful of Jewish beliefs to realizing the importance of remembering after seeing the horrors of the time.

''[[The Devil's Arithmetic]]'' is a 1988 [[Historical Fiction]] novel by [[Jane Yolen]] about a teenaged Jewish girl named Hannah, who is transported through time to a 1942 Polish concentration camp. Hannah goes from being disrespectful of Jewish beliefs to realizing the importance of remembering after seeing the horrors of the time.

It was made into an [[Anvilicious]] movie starring Kirsten Dunst in 1999.

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==== Tropes used by the novel: ====

* [[Adult Fear]]

* [[Anvils That Needed to Be Dropped]]: The point of the book and the movie, to introduce young teenagers to the the Holocaust.

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