History
The country that Lodz is located in.
What is Poland
Total number of siblings Riva has
What is 6
He knew that the snow storm would make driving dangerous
What is foreshadowing?
Riva's mother was employed in this trade
What is a seamstress or tailor
The largest Concentration Camp
What is Auschwitz
How old Riva is when her mom is taken away
What is 16?
The Nazis lashed out with whips like they were herding cattle
What is a smilie?
This was were the neighbors sat and talked
What is the oak tree?
The war that was started during this time period
What is WWII
The country that Riva's 3 older siblings are sent to for safety
What is Russia?
The smoke from the chimneys was thick and the screams of the people pierced my ears. I felt the horror and saw the destruction
What is imagery?
Laibele had to be hidden here
What is the cellar?
The approximate number of Jewish People killed in the Holocaust
What is 6 million?
What Laibele is sick with
What is tuberculosis?
Once we arrived at Birkennau, we realized that we should have run earlier and not trusted the German soldiers who told us we would be fine; now it was too late
What is irony?
One thing taken from Riva's home by the neighbors
What is furs, oven?
The 2 countries who liberated the Jews
What are the US and Russia?
Mrs Gruber was this person to Riva's family
What is their landlord?
The smoke was death and the the train was our ticket in
What is a metaphor?
The Judenrat
What is the governing body of the ghettos?