Salt to the Sea Review

What is Joana's hunter?

What is Florian's hunter?

What is Alfred's hunter?

What is Emilia's hunter?

Why is Joana important to her group?

• She is blind and able to hear planes before everyone else.

• She knows where the manor house is.

• She has a horse and medical training.

• She has potatoes that she shares.

What plan does Joana have for Emilia?

• She tells her to stay with Florian because he will take care of her.

• She tells her to take the papers of a Latvian woman who died.

• She tells her to hide in the manor and wait for the Allied soldiers to save her.

• She tells her to hide in Eva's cart and not to talk to anyone since she's Polish.

When the group makes it to the Wilhelm Gustloff, how does Joana get on?

• She pretends to be Klaus's mother since children are given priority to board.

• She gets a pass from Alfred because he thinks that she's pretty.

• She pretends that she's pregnant so that she can go to the maternity ward.

• She gets a pass from a doctor when she offers to help him take care of patients.

What does Joana do to help Florian?

• She takes care of the pack that he's been carrying.

• She reminds him of his mother, who was also in the medical field.

• She takes out the shrapnel in his side and sews him up.

• She reminds him of home and of the girls he used to date.

Why does Joana feel that she should be grateful to Germany?

• Her family was attacked by Stalin's soldiers and German soldiers saved them.

• She was allowed to go to school in Germany and get her medical training.

• She was repatriated into Germany from Lithuania by Hitler.

• She was born in Germany and had German citizenship.

What was Florian's job for the Reich?

• He ran an operation that identified and prosecuted Jewish store owners.

• He stole art fro mJewish-run museums and hid it for Hitler.

• He trained soldiers in how to use explosive devices.

• He restored art and was the museum director's personal assistant.