🪽Waiting for the storks🪽

Question 1

Why does Sofia want to block out her polish past?

Question 2

What do the Poles believe the stork represents?

Answer 2

good fortune,

Question 3

How did Auntie Barbra die?

Answer 3

she died in the concentration camp

Question 4

Why did Gudrun have a grudge towards Sofia when she joined the class?

Answer 4

because sofia was smarter than her

Question 5

How did Heidi and Sofia become friends?

Answer 5

they met in the bakery

Question 6

What are Zofia’s real parent’s names?

Question 7

What colour hair and eyes did all the children have

Answer 7

they all have blond hair and blue eyes and pale skin

Question 8

if you had lice, what did they do to your hair?

Answer 8

they shaved it

Question 9

What is Zofia’s Tata’s job

Answer 9

he was a tailor

Question 10

What is Tata’s job in the Secret Polish Resistance?

Answer 10

sewing messages in the seams of the clothing he made

Question 11

What material did Mr Wojcjk give to tata to sew into a suit?

Answer 11

green striped velvet from his curtains

Question 12

Why did the nurses, doctors and teachers want to turn them into German children when they are Polish children?

Question 13

How did Heidi and Zofia escape Heidi’s house when America started bombing the city?

Question 14

Why didn’t the nurses at the boarding school want Zofia and her friends praying?

Answer 14

because she wanted them to pray to hitler not god

Question 15

What was the name of Tata’s shop?

Question 16

Why did Aunty Barbra live with the Ulinski family?

Answer 16

the Germans kicked her out of her apartment, so she had nowhere to live

Question 17

Why didn’t the Germans want the children speaking Polish?

Answer 17

so they thought they where german

Question 18

what do the children do to get water in the truck

Answer 18

they lick the wet canvas

Question 19

what present does sofia give heidi

Answer 19

a kitten called bibbenstocks

Question 20

Why did Gudrun name her kitten Dandelion?

Answer 20

she had soft fur like a dandelion

Question 21

What are her real parent’s names?

Question 22

What are Sofia’s German parent’s names?

Question 23

Who’s older, Aunt Barbra or Mama?

Question 24

What was the surprise that tata had that was better than crimson spotted velvet?

Answer 24

her mother

Question 25

What pets did Sofia Engels have?

Answer 25

a kitten and a sausage dog

Question 26

How did Nadia the baby get water in the truck?

Answer 26

sofia got water on her jacket and gave the baby some fabric to suck on

Question 27

What was the horse that Sofia befriended name?

Question 28

Why did the German’s take Zofia?

Answer 28

because she had blonde hair and blue eyes

Question 29

Why did the Polish children received a new birth certificate, a new name, a new birthplace and a new birthday?

Answer 29

so they would forget they where german

Question 30

Zofia is taken from her Polish family and placed with a German one. How does this affect her sense of identity and belonging? 

Answer 30

she thinks she is german

Question 31

What insights does the book give information about the perspectives of young children during wartimes?

Question 32

Why does Zofia chooses to suppress her memories, and what are the consequences of this decision?

Question 33

where did they send the unwanted children