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Summary In this article the author is trying to find the similarities between Holocaust and animals’ situation in a cruel world. The author analyses and interpretates novel Beatrycze i Wergili written by Martel. In this story, the protagonists of narrator’s play are animals (donkey and monkey), who like Jewish society during Second World War, live in cages (similar to ghetto). They are treated as objects. Moreover, they are victims of violence. They have to deal with fear, insecurity (features typical for trauma). After they escaped, they tried to understand what had happened to them.