kinder transport context

Question 1

how many children left Germany nine months before the war?

Answer 1

10,000

Question 2

in Germany there was a rise of _______

Answer 2

Fascism

Question 3

what is Fascism?

Answer 3

far-right; authoritarian; dictatorship movement

Question 4

the “_______ ___” was a 2000s film of a ___ migration which gave a full picture of Jewry despite being ___________ propaganda

Answer 4

Eternal Jew; rat; Antisemitic

Question 5

what is the origin of the Ratcatcher story?

Answer 5

Pied piper of Hamelin ~ 1284

Question 6

how many children did the piper take and where did he take them?

Answer 6

130 into a cave

Question 7

why is the mayor refusing to pay the piper relevant to Kindertransport?

Answer 7

the mayor was ungrateful for the help; Eva was ungrateful for surviving

Question 8

Diane Samuels Introduction ~ “________ to deal with the _____ of ________”

Answer 8

struggle; guilt; survival

Question 9

Diane Samuels Introduction ~ “the feeling she felt most strongly towards her ____ parents was ____ at their ___________ of her , even though that _____________ had ______ her life”

Answer 9

dead; rage; abandonment; abandonment; saved

Question 10

Background to the Kindertransport ~ “increasingly _________ Jews from public ____”

Answer 10

excluded; life

Question 11

Background to the Kindertransport ~ “all Jewish _________ were marked with the letter _”

Answer 11

passports; J

Question 12

what is a pogrom?

Answer 12

an organised massacre of a particular ethnic group

Question 13

what was Kristallnacht?

Answer 13

“night of broken glass”
november pogrom against jews organised by nazis

Question 14

Jews were known as “the __________ race”

Answer 14

despised

Question 15

“Germans had _________ them of __________”

Answer 15

stripped; everything

Question 16

what were the assigned girl and boy names for the Jewish children?

Answer 16

Sarah and Jacob

Question 17

Jews were a “society terrorised by a ___-_____ state ___________”

Answer 17

one-party; machinery

Question 18

the Holocaust was the “robbing of the ___________’s __________”

Answer 18

individuals humanity

Question 19

Jewish children found their “parents had been greatly ________ by their ___________” but they themselves had been “_______ beyond ____________”

Answer 19

changed; experiences; changed; recognition

Question 20

“_____ robbed us of the _________ we might otherwise have had in ____ ______”

Answer 20

fate; pleasure; each other

Question 21

the Kindertransport was a “_________ ____________ from a family that for most children would last ________”

Answer 21

temporary; separation; forever

Question 22

“ __________ world of not __________ where he or she ____________”
“all their ________”

Answer 22

twilight; knowing; belonged
lives

Question 23

“I don’t want to be ____________ from _____ English people”

Answer 23

different; real

Question 24

what is Sheol?

Answer 24

jewish version of afterlife; still darkness after death; subterranean underworld

Question 25

who created the idea of the “shadow”

Answer 25

Carl Jung ~ Jungian

Question 26

the shadow described as “aspects of ___________ we ______ to _______ and ________” “into the _____________ ______”

Answer 26

personality; choose; reject; repress
unconscious; psyche

Question 27

Jungian Shadow ~ “to become ________ of it involves _____________ the dark aspects of the personality as _______ and ____”

Answer 27

conscious; recognising; present; real

Question 28

what are examples of shadow aspects that link to Evelyn? (3)

Answer 28

irrational wishes; fears; immoral urges

Question 29

what style of theatre is the play?

Answer 29

expressionist

Question 30

expressionism is the uncovering of intense ___________ and the failure of ___________ systems

Answer 30

emotions; societal

Question 31

how does Samuels use myth

Answer 31

expressionist device to shadow the kindertransport (children to death or exile)

Question 32

what theatrical device relates to the rejection of realism?

Answer 32

short’s scale of realism

Question 33

what is expressionist about the male characters?

Answer 33

they are unnamed members of officialdom to reflect female experience (Eva’s feelings about a parentless, friendless world)

Question 34

how did german officers treat the jewish children?

Answer 34

humiliate them
terrify them
take their valuables

Question 35

Who spoke about inherited fear?

Answer 35

Dr Besel Van der Colk

Question 36

which part of the brain is most primitive and always alert for trauma survivors?

Answer 36

the ‘cockroach’

Question 37

what was found in the babies of women pregnant during 911?

Answer 37

low cortisol

Question 38

what are epigenetics?

Answer 38

behavior and environment changing how genes work

Question 39

how can fear be inherited?

Answer 39

proteins bind to DNA which make trauma related substances which flow in the bloodstream, to all organs, can be passed on

Question 40

Sheol is also seen as a place of ___________

Answer 40

waiting

Question 41

where would a Jewish person’s soul be taken if they were to be purified?

Answer 41

Gan Eden

Question 42

where would a Jewish person’s soul be taken if they were to be punished?

Answer 42

Ghenna