Chapter 4

Question 1

describe the destruction of Druysk

Answer 1

began with Nazi invasion of USSR on June 22 1941 it was a village on the path of Germany

Question 2

describe Operation Barbossa

Answer 2

Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union on June 22 1941 in the largest Germany military operation of WW2

Question 3

core policy of Nazi movement since 1920’s

Answer 3

1-destruction of Soviet Union by military force
2-permanent elimination of perceived communist threat to Germany
3- seizure of prime land within Soviet borders for German settlement

Question 4

Adolph Hitler’s view on non aggression pact

Answer 4

temporary tactical maneuver

Question 5

date of german-soviet non aggression pact

Answer 5

august 23 1939

Question 6

what happened in July 1940

Answer 6

weeks after German conquest of France and the low countries, Hitler decided to attack the Soviet Union within a year

Question 7

What is directive 21

Answer 7

signed dec 18 1940, codenamed operation barbossa, it was the first operational order for the invasion of the Soviet Union

Question 8

From the beginning of operational planning, German military and police authorities intended to

Answer 8

wage a war of annilahation against the Communist state as well as the Jews off the Soviet Union who they characterized on a racial basis as forming the Soviet State

Question 9

During The winter and Spring of 1941 offices of the Army high Command and the Reich Security Main Office negotiated

Answer 9

arrangements of deployments of special units of the Security Police and the Security Service behind front line to annihaliate jews, communists and others dangerous to establishment of long term German rule over Soviet territory

Question 10

How many German forces invaded Soviet Union

Answer 10

134 at full fighting strength, 73 more for deployment behind the front. They invaded less than 2 years after they signed the pact

Question 11

Three army group consisting of three million German soldiers were supported by 650,000 troops from which two of Germany’s allies

Answer 11

Finland and ROmania

and later augmented by forces from Italy Croatia Slovakia and Hungary all to attack the Societ union around the Black Sea in the south and the Baltic Sea in the North

Question 12

Soviet Leadership had refused to heed warnings from Western powers about

Answer 12

the German troop buildup on its western border;

Question 13

Germany and its axis partners this achieved

Answer 13

almost complete tactical surprise

Question 14

most of the Soviet airforce was

Answer 14

destroyed on the ground; the Soviet armies were initially overwhelmed; german units encircled millions of soviet soldiers cut them off from supplies and reinforcements and made them surrender

Question 15

As the German army advanced into Soviet territory who followed them

Answer 15

SS and police units

Question 16

The einsatzgruppen

Answer 16

tasked with eliminating anyone who might organize and implement resistance to the German forces; concentrate on groups who will be hostile to German rule

Question 17

what did the einsatzgruppen establish

Answer 17

intelligence networks; secured key documents ; secured key facilities

Question 18

einsatzgruppen are aka

Answer 18

mobile killing units who initiated mass murder operation particularly at Jewish males; officials of the Soviet party and Roma gypsies they also established ghettos and other holding facilities for containing Jews

Question 19

In late July of 1941 with the arrival of Himmler’s representatives, the higher SS began to

Answer 19

physically annihilate entire Jewish communities in the Soviet Union

Question 20

Success on the military front and the annihilation of Soviet Jews had Hitler decide to (Oct 15 1941)

Answer 20

deport German Jews to the Soviet Union to eliminate and Jews in Europe. This was known as the “Final Solution” policy.

Question 21

Druysk was physically annihilated. The area around it was captured by the Germans in June of 1941

Answer 21

German law was established. Anti-Jewish edicts were announced.:

1) yellow star
2) exclusion from employment
3) forced labor

Question 22

Where did Frumka Malta go?

Answer 22

Back to her husband, with her daughters …to Vilna

Question 23

In the winter of 1942 where did the Germans send the jews of Druysk

Answer 23

to city of Vidzy 40 kilometers away; overcrowded into synagogue; houses in ghetto, so were Jews from other small towns - population included workers as well as old and frail

Question 24

the first Atkion occurred early in 1942

Answer 24

3000 were killed. Local Lithuanians helped because they were promised their independence after the war

Question 25

The local Judenrat (Jewish council) did what

Answer 25

organized work especially cut peat from near the bogs; also jews cut down trees to send back to Germany; women sewed uniforms for Germans, cooked and washed clothes for Lithuanians

Question 26

describe the ghetto

Answer 26

terrible! little food, always hungry, no wood for heat, always cold. Would sometimes get food from Judenrat; couldn’t leave ghetto except to go to assigned work; no social life ; same clothes, no place to bathe

Question 27

who did sara work for?

Answer 27

a priest who would give her food even though he didn’t have to

Question 28

some people escaped to where

Answer 28

the partisans in the forest but people with children could not go there; the partisans didn’t want children whose cries would endanger them

Question 29

how long were they in Vidzy ghetto

Answer 29

three months then there was a rumor that they were getting moved to another ghetto; sara had a bad feeling

Question 30

when they (sara, yosel, chaim) were transferred to the other small ghetto called Swieciany what happened

Answer 30

outbreak of typhoid. they were there for another 3 months

Question 31

In March 1942, SS Sturmbannfurrer Horst Wulff decided to clear

Answer 31

all the ghettos because of partisans nearby; those in useful professions would be moved to Vilna others would go to Kovno

Question 32

what did sara do then

Answer 32

begged for her family to escape

Question 33

Salak Dressler of the Vilna police arrived to run the transfer to Vilna panic ensued becuase

Answer 33

everyone wanted to prove useful

Question 34

sara had a premonition that

Answer 34

the Nazis would kill them; she escaped and encouraged her family to come hide.

Question 35

where did sara and her husband stay

Answer 35

with a Christian family; they let her crochet while he worked. Then he heard that people were looking for him so he decided to go.

Question 36

what happened to sara’s husband and the rest of her family

Answer 36

they were taken to polnar on freight wagons and killed

Question 37

where did sara hide

Answer 37

in the closet for 3 days; then she and her son went into the forest. (AROUND APRIL 1942)