The Upstairs Room

In the story, The Upstairs Room, by Johanna Reiss, the setting is emphasized. This story takes place during the Holocaust, a very important significant time in history. The Upstairs Room is about the lives of two Jewish sisters during the war, but it focuses on the events happening around them. During the story, the two sisters, Sini and Annie, went into hiding so they wouldn’t be sent to a concentration camp. This showed how …

…was house checks by the soldiers. The German soldiers would occasionally invade your house and search it to be sure that you were not hiding anybody. In The Upstairs Room, Sini and Annie had a hiding place in the wall to stay in when the soldiers came for house checks. By reading The Upstairs Room, much can be learned of the many events and things that took place during the Holocaust by the descriptive setting.