Time Line (Assignment 5)

Rescue and Liberation

• 1944- People who tried to rescue Jews and others from the Nazi did it at great risk to their own safety.

• Allied troops who entered the concentration camps were shocked at what they found. (Large ditches filled with bodies, ect.)

Questions ch.2&3 (Assignment 4)

Chapter 2 PG.23-28

1. The train had stopped in a small town ,Kaschau, in Czechoslovakian. "Our eyes opened. Too late." means that they noticed that they weren't staying in Hungary and it was too late to do anything about it.
2. She was kind of having a vision about the crematories.
3. The men bound and gagged her. They struck her so hard that it could have killed her.
4. The train stopped at Birkenau.

Chapter 3 PG.29-46

1. An SS officer had told him to lie about his age; he lied about the occupation because he was scared.
2. He saw the babies out of the truck thrown into flames.
3. He no longer had faith. The babies and the flame and the questioning of God made him loose his faith.
4. He felt angered; he started questioning God like why should he thank Him for.
5. He felt that at Birkenau they treated them more humanly.
6. They would shower them with hot water.
7. The numbers on their left arm; he was A-7713
8. Because according to the Germans he was being too nice.
9. In the mornings- black coffee, midday- soup, at six o' clock- bread with margarine
10. He was forced to put his own father's body into the furnace.

Chapter 1 Night Questions (Assignment 3)

1. Moishe the Beadle was a handyman, a very poor man, a man of all work
2. He didn't know
3. He would tell about how they killed the kids and two people (foreign Jews)
4. They thought he was crazy, that he wanted them to pity him
5. 1. they arrested all the leaders of the Jewish community 2. they couldn't stay out past six 3. they weren't allowed to have anything with monitary value 4. they had to wear a yellow star 5. soldiers could go in their house 6. they were put in the ghetto
6. A neighborhood with only a class of people ex. Jews
7. The Jews do not believe that Hitler really intends to annihilate them
8. *there were 80 people per car *the one in charge would be killed if one of them escaped *there was bread and water *there were bars on the windows

Cattle Car Complex (Assignment #2)

• Adam Posner was a Jewish lawyer that gets stuck in an elevator. As Posner was stuck in the elevator, he was remembering about the Holocaust. This claustrophobic man was remembering about how the Jewish were put in Cattle Cars (80 in each), and how they were suffering of thirst and suffocation. Adam was also afraid of the dark; the officer asked him to stay there longer, but Posner refused and cursed the man. At the end the Jewish man was saved, still living the horror of the Holocaust.
• The author writes about things like this to show how Jewish people are still being affected by the Holocaust even though it happened a long time ago.