This document summarizes the plot of the novel Milkweed by Jerry Spinelli. It describes a young boy struggling to survive in a Jewish ghetto during the Holocaust. He is forced to leave his parents and is separated from his loved ones. People are constantly being replaced as others are shipped out to death camps, facing an uncertain future. Some fight to stay alive or sacrifice themselves for others, while some survive to share their stories and prevent such atrocities from happening again.