Ch. 1-3 Prisoner B-3087 Flashcards
What does fuehrer mean in German?
Leader
How did he build his own projector?
(Slide projectors) by mounting a lightbulb on a piece of wood and positioning wooden plates with lenses from magnifying glasses in front of it and by using cardboard cutouts or characters glued to sticks
What were his fav films
John Wayne westerns
What color is his hair
Dark blonde
What’s the quote from chapter one
If I had known what the next six years of my life were going to be like I would have eaten more, I wouldn’t have complained about brushing my teeth, or taking a bath, or going to bed at 8:00 every night.
What are tanks called
Panzers
What changed at school
The polish boys wouldn’t play soccer with him anymore and no poles or Germans bought food from his fathers store and food became more scarce and expensive
Did he like reading
Yes, he loved to read, especially books about America, doctors, and medicine
What type of store does his father own and what type of store does his uncle own
Uncle owns fur shop and father owns shoe shop
How do Jews buy food now
With ration cards with J’s on them for Jew
What did they close
Cinemas, libraries, school, parks, swimming pools,
What was the nightly curfew
They had to be in their homes by 9:00
“They are marking us. Branding us like the cattle in those American pictures Yanek likes so much”
Similar and because they had to wear armbands with the Star of David on them
What’s the quote from chapter 2
Let them take everything. They can’t take who we are
How tall was the wall
3 meters tall and made of brick
Which families stayed with them
Laskis, Rosenblums, and the Brotmans
What’s his neighborhood called
Podgórze
What’s a synogugue
A place where Jews worshipped every sabbath and where Yanek was studying for his bar mitzvah
