After the raid occurs in Yanek's apartment building, what do the people begin to do with the Immerglick's belongings?
Question 2
2.
What did the Nazis do to the people who were sick and in the hospital?
Question 3
3.
In Chapter 8, where was Yanek able to get a job in the ghetto?
Question 4
4.
Who did Yanek think that he saw in the line of Jews being led to be deported by the Nazis?
Question 5
5.
After arriving at the concentration camp in Chapter 9, who does Yanek recognize?
Question 6
6.
What happened on the day that Yanek decided to stop by a friend’s apartment on the way home from work detail?
Question 7
7.
What was Amon Goeth’s tradition before he had breakfast each day?
Question 8
8.
What advice did Uncle Moshe give to Yanek to help him survive in the concentration camp?
Question 9
9.
What did the score “Goeth seven, Jews nil” mean?
Question 10
10.
What did Uncle Moshe do with the money Yanek gave him?
Question 11
11.
According to Yanek, what is a Muselmann?
Question 12
12.
Why did Uncle Moshe's death jeopardize the life of our narrator?
Question 13
13.
What did Yanek find as he struggled on the floor to try to get up to his bunk after a grueling day of laboring to dig trenches for latrines?
Question 14
14.
In the following sentence, what is the most likely meaning of “labyrinth”?
“The elevator car hit bottom, and we were guided through a labyrinth of tunnels and small chambers.”
Question 15
15.
Yanek and several other prisoners believe that a man that is with them in the salt mines looks familiar. Why did the familiar-looking man keep denying where he was from and what his name was?
Question 16
16.
At Trzebinia, what was the task assigned to the Jews after they labored to move all the big rocks to the other side?
Question 17
17.
What happened to the Jew who had the same thought as Yanek did and grabbed the club away from the Nazi who was beating him?
Question 18
18.
What else happened as a result of the man trying to stand up to the Nazi official?
Question 19
19.
What does Yanek do when the boy gets hung in front of everyone for his "role" in the uprising against the Nazi official?
Question 20
20.
What does Yanek find in the ghetto when he goes back to help liquidate it?
Question 21
21.
Why do Thomas, Isaac, and Yanek become fearful that they may die in the barracks?
Question 22
22.
Why would it be a bad idea for the prisoners to try to escape in the salt mine?
Question 23
23.
How does the Judenrat die?
Question 24
24.
What does Yanek actually enjoy seeing in the salt mine?
Question 25
25.
What does Yanek take away from the boy that was hung when he said, "Remember, I did nothing"?
Question 26
26.
What gift from “mother nature” helped Yanek while riding in the cattle car on the way to Birkenau?
Question 27
27.
What are barracks?
Question 28
28.
The man on the cattle car gives Yanek some advice on what to do when they get to Birkenau. What does this man say?
Question 29
29.
Why can't the prisoners on the cattle car go immediately into Birkenau when the train arrives?
Question 30
30.
What smell does Yanek recognize immediatley upon entering Birkenau?
Question 31
31.
Describe Yanek’s introduction to Commandant Amon Goeth after arriving at the concentration camp.
Question 32
32.
Why did Yanek think Trzebinia was worse than Wieliczka (the salt mines)?
Question 33
33.
Describe the conditions of the cattle car that Yanek and the prisoners travel in. Why would the Nazis transport the Jewish prisoners using this method?
Question 34
34.
Describe how Birkenau is different than the other concentration camps that Yanek has been at.