Uncle Abraham Character Analysis in Prisoner B-3087

Abraham is Yanek’s uncle and Oskar and Moshe’s brother. Abraham and his wife, Fela, are allowed to continue making bread for the Nazis during the occupation of Kraków, but they also bake bread for Yanek and his family (and to sell to other families) under cover of night. They are taken to the camps before Yanek, where they are killed.

Uncle Abraham Quotes in Prisoner B-3087

The Prisoner B-3087 quotes below are all either spoken by Uncle Abraham or refer to Uncle Abraham. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:

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I remembered the food on the table in my old apartment in Podgórze, and all my family sitting around me. Mother and Father. Uncle Moshe and Aunt Gizela, and little cousin Zytka. Uncle Abraham and Aunt Fela. […]

I thought too of my friend Fred, and the boy who had been hanged for trying to escape, and the man who had fought back, and all the other people I had watched die. They filled my table and the tables all around me, taking the places of all the real people in the room.

Related Characters: Yanek Gruener (speaker), Uncle Moshe, Fred, Oskar Gruener, Mina Gruener, Uncle Abraham, Aunt Fela, Aunt Gizela, Zytka

Page Number and Citation: 252

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