The cage was a very interesting book that had interesting things about the history and location. For example,the persecution of Jews began soon after Lodz was occupied by the Germans on 8 September 1939. The racist Nuremburg Laws of September 1935 which the Nazis had applied to German, Austrian and Czech Jews, were immediately enforced. The majority of the story took place in 1939 in Poland, at the ghetto then at the death/concentration camps. The leader at the time in are story was Władysław Eugeniusz Sikorski he was a Polish military and political leader, and he was sadly a friend to Hitler. The place was sad and the characters were affected right away,