Prisoner B 3087 Chapters 6-8

The terrible news that the Judenrat director in the ghetto has is __________________.

• the entire ghetto will be burned down in two hours

• the Nazis have ordered him to choose 7,000 Jews for deportation

• the ghetto is being converted into a concentration camp

• Yanek's whole family is to be resettled

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The Judenrat director decides that the best people to be taken away would be the _____.

• elderly

• mothers

• fathers

• children

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What did "Resettlement" mean?

• It was what the Nazis called it when they took the Jews to concentration or death camps.

• It was when Jews "resettled" into the ghettos from their homes across Europe.

• It was when the Nazi "resettled" into all the homes that used to belong to the Jews.

• It was a saying used when the older Jews died, like going to heaven or passing on.

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What celebration did Yanek's father remind him about that they would hold at night?

• His mother's birthday--she had snuck flour and sugar to make a cake.

• Yanek's 13th birthday--his bar mitzvah where he would become a man.

• Hanukkah--there was one special heirloom he wanted to pass on to his son.

• Hitler's birthday--they were all going to run away in defiance.

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The Judenrat director does not think twice about asking for people to give him their children to hand over to the Nazis because__________________________.

• the Nazis have promised not to take him and his family away

• he believes in what the Nazis are doing and thinks it is right

• he is going to try to hide all of the children before the Nazis can take them away

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When the Nazis FIRST came into the ghetto for the 7,000 people, they asked for ___________ before starting their massacre.

• volunteers instead of picking certain people

• all of the children

• all of the elderly

• people who worked in the shops

The Nazis end up murdering____________.

• the workers in the bakeries

• the elderly people in the retirement home

• the children in the orphanage

• the sick people in the hospital

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In the next chapter after the mass deportation, Yanek's parents were deported. He was not deported with his parents because__________.

• the Nazis needed him in the ghetto to work at the tailor's shop

• he went to his friend's house and was not with his parents when they were taken

• he was able to hide out in the pigeon coop when they were taken away

• he talked his way out of being taken away

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What were Mina and Oskar (Yanek's parents) doing when the Nazis deported them?

• working at the tailor shop

• coming home from buying bread

• hiding in the pigeon coop

• running down an alley to hide

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Yanek gives up all hope and desire to live once his family is taken away.

• True

• False

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