Chapter 6

Question 1

after he husband was murdered

Answer 1

she hid in woods for a while and they lived with family for three months crocheting; whole town knew; they didn’t betray; they didn’t kill Jews

Question 2

when Germans came near she realized it was too dangerous and she

Answer 2

and her son left but return now and then to go to Christian families for food; some would let her and her son bathe on Saturday evenings

Question 3

she kept moving because she

Answer 3

needed change not a pattern

Question 4

some helped her and gave her

Answer 4

food and milk and told her when to hide deep in the forest, most times she stayed close to the houses

Question 5

they were caught once but when

Answer 5

the soldier shot. he missed. she thinks he missed on purpose so as not to shoot a woman with a child in her arms.

Question 6

they hid in the forest In daytime

Answer 6

and only walked at night. bent branches to hide in teepee style, covered themselves with leaves, hid in haystacks, hid in farmers potato hole storage - ate rotten potatoes when lucky, sometimes stayed with cowherds

Question 7

others were in forest too

Answer 7

men, women, Russian soldiers but they did not stay together too risky

Question 8

what happened to some of they crying hiding children

Answer 8

they were suffocated to protect the group

Question 9

In 1943 the Germans killed a family for

Answer 9

helping Jews; after that sara had to stay in woods

Question 10

sara believed

Answer 10

if there was a god maybe he helped her; but that her son was a good boy who did not cry also helped; he also tried o stay awake so that he was easier to carry

Question 11

two weeks after the war ended

Answer 11

sara was still hiding. A Russian woman asked her why

Question 12

Battle of Stalingrad and Russian offensive

Answer 12

summer of 1944 Belarus was liberated

Question 13

despite catastrophic losses in the first 6 weeks of operation barbossa the soviet union failed to

Answer 13

collapse as anticipated by Nazi leadership and german forces.

Question 14

by late sept 1941 german forces

Answer 14

reached the gates of Leningrad in north

Question 15

on dec 6 1941

Answer 15

the soviet union launched a counter driving germans back to moscow

Question 16

summer of 42

Answer 16

germans resumed offensive with a massive attack to south and southeast toward stalingrad

Question 17

in September if 42

Answer 17

germans reached furthest domination in Europe reacing the oil fields of the caucasus

Question 18

battle of Stalingrad important psychological point

Answer 18

ended summer of german victories; began Germanys long retreat that would end in surrender

Question 19

Germanys surrender

Answer 19

may 1945

Question 20

mid November 1942 soviets launched a counterattack against

Answer 20

Germany’s sixth army. Some 250000 soldiers tried to win Stalingrad in hand to hand fighting; soviet troops encircled the germans. six weeks later Germany surrendered at stalingrad

Question 21

soviets remained on offensive after Stalingrad

Answer 21

liberated Ukraine and virtually all of Russia

Question 22

sara began to

Answer 22

walk back to Druysk; ran into a tailor who told him to stop at his uncle’s he was a Jew who would help

Question 23

got to the tailor’s uncles house and he

Answer 23

wouldn’t even give the child bread. Chaim was 4.5 and had gotten used to sleeping outside and said let’s just go cover ourselves with branches; later she saw the man in Germany and he asked for forgiveness

Question 24

sara’s second husbands name

Answer 24

Michel cypukk and his two daughters; her neighbors before deportation

Question 25

sara kept travelling from place to place to get closer to druysk . her family was gone. she stayed there a little while and

Answer 25

bought and sold (referred to as “handled”) and stayed with 21 other survivors in a house.(including Michel)

Question 26

Michel and another man used to do business together. Waited for son to go to sleep and sara went with this man. they went on a horse and were attacked by

Answer 26

Lithuanian Christians. Sara escaped. Man was killed. The Lithuanians were afraid that the Jews would identify them to the soviets as german collaborators. soviets were just as brutal! would shoot them or send them to Siberia.

Question 27

After Michel business partner was murdered

Answer 27

sara and Michel moved and got married in 1945 Braslaw, Belarus