Why is it called 'The Devil's Arithmetic'?

It's called the Devil's Arithmetic because of the function of the camps.

For every 1 that dies, 1 will enter. Leaving none left.

1 + 1 = 0

In the book it says something about how the days, when Hannah is in the concentration camp, go by 1 by 1 by 1, adding up like the Devil's Arithmetic. Then the tattooed numbers and the death tolls. So there really isn't one solid reason for the name of the book/movie.

I remember reading this in about the 6th grade. Its a good book. I also remember being embarrassed reading a part about how they had to strip in the showers. I didn't realize the horror and humiliation of that. Our history and literature classes have recently started studying World War II and the Holocaust. We watched several films about Holocaust survivors. I must say that it was truly shocking. You could count their bones and their eyes were sunken in. It was very troubling. I felt so guilty too. I have no idea why, but I did. I didn't watch all of the movie, but from what I saw it was pretty good. I liked the details of the book better, but I think making Hannah older was the right decision. It seemed more fitting. Well...I'm done babbling.

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the movie was very different from the book, i was kind of dissapionted, its called the Devils Arithmetic because to the naizs, the jews were just a number, thats it. they were nothing. just workers till the next shipment came in. and the dates were wrong, if you were taken in 1941, the nazis were jjust killing them at random still right? they didnt have lobor camps, just death camps, and ghettos, untill the nazis saw an oppertuinity to use the jews to make things for them and the for the war

and the life expendicy was 3 months. so it shold have been set in 1944-45 for her aunt to be a servivor, and i dont remeber that rabbi stuff in the book, was that just added? to make the movie longer?


sorry, im very pashionate about WWII and the showa, my aunt(related by marriage), her mother was a serivor, and she educated us about what happend at a very young age.