Chapter 7

Question 1

1941

Answer 1

no Halley’s comet
year of destruction
year of terrible losses
operation barbossa (germans violate pact and turn on Soviets)

Question 2

June 22 1941

Answer 2

opened up the eastern front - naiz unleash 4.5 million troops attacking soviets on 1800 mile front wasting land and killing helpless citizens

Question 3

Dec 7 1941

Answer 3

Japanese attack Pearl Harbor

Question 4

jan 25 1941

Answer 4

sara’s son is born in Druysk 523 Town of Jews no Christians

Question 5

pogrom

Answer 5

1.an organized massacre of a particular ethnic group, in particular that of Jews in Russia or eastern Europe.

Question 6

what did sara sell

Answer 6

salt, herring, needles, thread, kerosene

Question 7

describe house

Answer 7

one room, thatched roof, dirt floor, well outside outhouse

Question 8

when did the soviets come to druysk

Answer 8

after the partition of Poland in 1939 they were communists; sara’s family was bourgeoisie; comunists rationed food and commodities; landowners were taken to Siberia

Question 9

bourgeoisie

Answer 9

the middle class, typically with reference to its perceived materialistic values or conventional attitudes.

•(in Marxist contexts) the capitalist class who own most of society’s wealth and means of production.

Question 10

sara worked in a communist store selling

Answer 10

herring, kerosene, butter

Question 11

when did germans come to druysk

Answer 11

1941 after son was born; rumors of an aktion when he was 6 months old

Question 12

aktion

Answer 12

mass assembly, murder, deportation of Jews

Question 13

aunt heard rumor of atkion and

Answer 13

grabbed all her kids and her nephew; left her own 6 month old baby because sara only had one child; rumor was false

Question 14

in 1942 townspeople were moved from druysk to

Answer 14

a ghetto in Vidzy

Question 15

what did the workers do in Vidzy

Answer 15

cut peat and trees to send back to Germany

Question 16

where did they go after Vidzy

Answer 16

swieciany…a bigger ghetto…keep cutting trees or be shot

Question 17

where did they go after swieciany

Answer 17

Vilna but really Polnar while sara and son hid in closet

Question 18

what haunts son?

Answer 18

that his father may have had to watch his 52 year old mother murdered but he isrelieved that he did not need to watch the wife and son murdered

Question 19

most of the killing was done by

Answer 19

Lithuanians supported by the Germans; Lithuanians did work because they were grateful that the germans had expelled the soviets; Lithuanians were promised an independent lithuania

Question 20

name of the workers at the pits

Answer 20

sonderkommandos

Question 21

killing of citizens od druysk took

Answer 21

three days in 1942; of the hundreds that originally lived there only 21 survived - 18 adults and three children

Question 22

of 49 members of original family

Answer 22

only sara and son survived

Question 23

after hiding spent

Answer 23

three months in a monastery

Question 24

saras son was given the polish name

Answer 24

michas; monks made him a cross he wore around his neck; taught catholic prayers; once germans came they were turned away

Question 25

then they went into

Answer 25

the woods around vilna and roamed for about 3 years until the war was over

Question 26

mother did what for healing

Answer 26

used plants in forest

Question 27

bad infection on head mother used

Answer 27

pitch from wheels - coal tar, tar soap, black salve - worked!

Question 28

hand infection

Answer 28

mother used his urine - contained urea

Question 29

worms in stool - mother

Answer 29

fed garlic