At some of the concentration camps, the soldiers made the prisoners do different tasks for fun. What did the Nazis make Yanek and the other prisoners move back and forth back and forth at one of the camps?
How many total concentration camps did Yanek survive?
What kind of films did Yanek say that he loved at the beginning of the novel?
What does Yanek celebrate with his uncles and other men in an abandoned warehouse?
What did the Nazis burn when the war was just getting started?
Where did Yanek and his dad sneak off to after curfew (the first time that Yanek snuck out of his apartment)?
What are prisoners called when there is no life in their expression, no spark of a soul in their eyes, and they have been worked and starved into a living death?
What are barracks?
Where did the main character live before the war and before being deported to a concentration camp?
What group of people was responsible for liberating Dachau?
What does Yanek ask Moonface for when they are on the Death March?
Who is the family member that Yanek gets to be with for a short time in a concentration camp?
After the Nazis raid their apartment, Yanek's mom becomes worried. How does she hide their valuables?
What was the purpose of the Death Marches?
Where do Yanek and his parents live until they are eventually taken away?
What did Amon Goeth do each morning before starting the day?
Where does Yanek hide with two other boys during work time for two weeks?
On the death march between the Gross-Rosen Concentration camp and Dachau Concentration camp, the group went through part of Czechoslovakia (Czech Republic). What was different about this country?
Why does Yanek receive his punishment of lashes?
When the Nazis first took over Poland, they established the following rules for Jews EXCEPT:
After the first year of the Nazi occupation of Krakow, why does Yanek begin to doubt his father’s views?
What evidence from the text could help to explain why the Immerglick family was taken by the Nazis on the first raid, but Yanek's family was not?
What was so important about Yanek turning 13 that his father disobeyed curfew?
After Yanek’s parents are taken, what is Yanek determined to do?
Why was Yanek deported from the tailor shop?
What method(s) did Amon Goeth use to murder people?
After the tailor shop in Plaszow closes, how does Yanek get a job outside of the camp?
How does Yanek fail to follow Uncle Moshe’s advice while in Plaszow?
What happens in the Wieliczka Salt mine?
The German words on the front gates of Auschwitz Concentration camp ARBEIT MACHT FREI translates WORK MAKE YOU FREE.
Yanek tells Doctor Mengele that he is a 16-year-old student.
What does Yanek do before arriving at Dachau in order to try to pass as a Polish prisoner?
After a night of bombing near the Dachau Concentration camp by the Allied soldiers, what was different when Yanek woke up in the morning?
What gifts did Yanek receive from the Allied soldiers?
Where did Yanek find the snow he needed to quench his thirst while on the train?
An SS guard says that prisoners come in through the front gate of Auschwitz, but the only way out is through what?
What kind of song do women sing when mothers and children are taken to the gas chambers?
What sound was a signal to prisoners that they were walking too slow and falling too far behind during the Death March?
What does Yanek learn will settle his stomach from reading about medicine?
What language was Yanek told to count in when he was beaten with twenty lashes?
This is the money/currency used in Poland:
How many Jews did the Germans want to take from their ghetto as a part of the Resettlement?
What does Yanek do to entertain his family at the beginning of the novel?
What did Yanek's dad mean when he said, "Let them take everything. They cannot take who we are"?
What were the people doing with the Immerglick's belongings after their apartment was raided by the Nazis?
What literary element is "Life is but a river"?
What did the Nazis do to the people in the hospital when they were trying to liquidate Yanek's ghetto?
Who did Yanek think that he saw in the line of Jews being led by Nazis?
What advice did Uncle Moshe give to Yanek to help him survive in the concentration camp?
What did Uncle Moshe do with the money Yanek gave him?
Why did the familiar-looking man in the salt mine keep denying where he was from and what his name was?
What does Yanek find in the ghetto when he goes back to help liquidate it?
Why do Thomas, Isaac, and Yanek become fearful that they may die in the barracks?
What does Yanek take away from the boy that was hung when he said, "Remember, I did nothing"?
What does Yanek notice when they stop the train in Birkenau?
What is the advice a man on the cattle car gives Yanek about the Death Camp?
When Yanek finally let his hysteria overtake him, he shouted at the shower heads in the gas chamber. As soon as he did, what happened?
In Chapter 15, how is Yanek able to figure out what the next camp the prisoners are being transported to is?
When the train arrives at Birkenau, why do the prisoners on the train have to wait on the train so long before entering the camp?
As Yanek is getting ready to enter the gas chambers, he sees clothes left behind from the people that were in the chambers before him. What group of people were in the chambers previously?
What happens to the prisoners after they survive the shower in the gas chamber?
Although Yanek is tattooed and will now be seen as just a prisoner with a number, not Yanek, what mindset does he have?
What does Yanek find in the scrap of cloth left behind by one of the Gypsies?
In Chapter 21, why do the prisoners begin getting transported by marching by foot rather than in train cars?
Why did Yanek scrub his body in the cold water and rub his teeth with his wet fingers each morning?
What was Yanek’s trick to get a heartier dinner and avoid becoming a Muselmann?
Yanek tries to save a young boys life and the boy's family when he tells them -
When the new prisoners arrive to Auschwitz what does Yanek notice about them?
What words did Yanek share during the Bar Mitzvah event that he remembered from his father and his uncle?
What did Fred and Yanek pretend about and imagine while on their work detail?
After the American soldier's freed Yanek and the others, what does he realize?
At Sachsenhausen what do the guards make the prisoners do to see who is strong enough to be transferred?
How did Moonface get his name?
What disease spread through Dachau, killing many prisoners?
What did Yanek change his name to at the end of the story?
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A friend the main character made in the camp. He unfortunately gets sick and is unable to get out of bed and work, so he is drug out of bed after being beaten and is hung.
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An old neighbor of the main character who later provides him with an address of his cousin.
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The main character’s father. He dies after being taken in the streets by the Nazis.
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The main character’s uncle. He dies after not supplying a Nazi with a “satisfactory” answer.
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The main character’s mother. She dies after being taken in the streets by the Nazis.
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When Yanek arrives here, he does not have to work for a week.
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This is the camp where Yanek encounters Dr. Mengele, who was in charge of sorting the line to the left and to the right.
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Where Yanek is when the Americans liberate the Jews.
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The camp where Yanek received his tattoo.
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Yanek’s home; where the book opens.
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Yanek survives two of these treacherous walks.
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The first camp Yanek is sent to after being deported.
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Where the Grueners hide after the Germans first force their way into their flat.
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This camp has a “zoo” for entertainment.
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The camp where Yanek received 20 lashes for losing a button.
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“Bars.” ... “Can you put bars...on the door?”
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“Sometimes I wish the Allies would drop bombs on us. Blow this place to bits, and all the Nazis and kapos with it. And me too.”
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“Go on! Go on, do it! I dare you! What are you waiting for? Kill me! I give up! You win!”
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“From now on, you have no name, no personality, no family, no friends. Do you understand? Nothing to identify you, nothing to care about. Not if you want to survive.”
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“You are a man now, with all the duties of an adult under Jewish law. You are now responsible for your own sins, but also for your own goodness. Remember what the Talmud teaches: Life is but a river. It has no beginning, no middle, no end. All we are, all we are worth, is what we do while we float upon it—how we treat our fellow man.”