About Irene
Irene's Peeps
Plot
Those she Helped
Other Partisans
100
What Irene was training to be.
What is a nurse?
100
Janini
Who is Irene's sister?
100
Irene is wanted by the Russians because they believe she is this.
What is a dangerous spy?
100
What Irene snuck beneath the ghetto wall.
What is food?
100
Played the piano and hid but never had to use violence.
Who is Wladisaw Spzilman?
200
Irene awakens in a hospital after this terrifying event at the hands of the Russians.
What is rape?
200
Miriam
Who is Dr. David's friend in Svetlana, who pretends to be Irene's cousin.
200
Place in Radon that Janina shows Irene.
What is the Jewish ghetto?
200
Price for getting caught by Herr Major Rugemer.
What is becoming his mistress?
200
Poet from Lithuania who worked to convince Jews in the ghetto to fight back.
Who was Abba Kovner?
300
The language she speaks so fluently that helps her time and time again.
What is German?
300
The doctor who tried to rape her.
Who is Dr. Ksydzof?
300
Reaction from the priest when Irene asked for forgiveness for her "sins."
What is "no?" The priest said her relationship with the major was unpardonable despite the fact that it was keeping people alive.
300
Reason Irene moves Ida and another woman to the Pasiewskas' house instead of keeping them hidden in the forest or cellar.
What is Ida's pregnancy?
300
Unlike active resistance, this type of resistance is more passive.
What is spiritual resistance?
400
Her first job for the Germans.
What is a worker in an ammunition plant (then worked for a restaurant and Herr Schulz and, eventually, Herr Major Rugemer)?
400
A kind German employer who gave her plenty of food and helped her help others.
Who is Herr Schulz?
400
After being captured once again by the Russians -- this time for questioning -- Irene escaped this way.
What is jumps out a window?
400
Four challenges the hidden faced.
What is illness, being discovered, cold weather, and starvation.
400
Bielski brother who joined the Russians and believed violence was necessary.
Who was Zus?
500
Times she is married.
What is 2? (Janek, who dies almost immediately after the wedding, and William Opdyke, who interviewed her in the repatriation camp)
500
The German Irene works for, eventually sleeps with, and in whose house she hides Jews.
Who is Herr Major Rugemer?
500
In order to receive help and find safety at a repatriation camp, Irene disguises herself as this.
What is Jewish?
500
Four places Irene hid people.
What is the laundry room, the cellar (tunnel), Herr Major Rugemer's bathroom and the forest.
500
Bielski brother who was the leader of the Jewish community in the forest -- believed in maintaining their humanity.
Who was Tuvia?
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