Chapter 5

Question 1

one cousin escaped and told sara what happened his name was

Answer 1

zalmon baron

Question 2

the gestapo and Lithuanian police took over and detoured from kovno to

Answer 2

polnar the mass murder site

Question 3

in 1940 and 1941 the soviets dug six pits at polnar for

Answer 3

fuel storage tanks; but the soviets retreated before the project could be finished; gemans used pits for murdered Jews from around Vilna; 70000 to 100000 were murdered there; this particular time some tried to escape some were recaptured many died

Question 4

describe the pits

Answer 4

1/2 bodies slain and laid overnight
3/4/5 to be burned
6 - deepest - where workers lived and they would pull ladder out at night

Question 5

April 6 Weiss ordered Jewish policemen from Vilna to go to

Answer 5

the woods and fields to collect dead bodies and bury them in the pots

Question 6

peasants would

Answer 6

collect the goods of the dead

Question 7

woods were

Answer 7

strewn with bodies and human limbs