The Camps
Prisoners never knew if the chamber they walked into would be a gas chamber or ______.
What is a shower?
The way the ground always is inside the barracks.
What is like a swamp? (wet, muddy)
The sister camp to Birkenau.
What is Auschwitz?
After the shower at Birkenau, Yanek has found this again.
What is his determination/will to survive?
Yanek's job at Birkenau.
What is building barracks?
The Nazis used this new technique at Birkneau to identify each Jewish prisoner.
What is a tattoo?
The amount of time you could be in the latrine before being beaten by a kapo or SS officer.
What is two minutes?
News prisoners of Auschwitz are told this person is waiting for them.
Who is death?
A gypsy boy or girl left this in the barrack where Yanek slept.
What is a wooden horse?
Yanek completes this action at the camp to "feel human again".
What is brushing his teeth?
Yanek said he was lucky to get a pair of these that fit. "_____ were everything in the camps."
What are shoes?
Who is the camp surgeon?
The camp where the barracks were the worst that Yanek had seen yet.
What is Birkenau?
These people could be punished if someone else broke the Nazis' rules.
Who is anyone?
The Jewish prisoners at Auschwitz are told this will set them free.
What is work?
If anything was in the barracks where they slept it would be this.
What is old, wet straw?
The place where verbal messages could be relayed to other prisoners.
What is the latrine?
In Auschwitz the women prisoners sing when this happens.
What is women and children being taken to the gas chambers?
The name for the group of 10 men required to complete a bar mitzvah.
What is a minyan?
The person Yanek speaks his name to for the first time in a long while
Who is Fred?
These things were given to prisoners at Birkenau for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
What are weak coffee, watery soup, and bread?
The number of people who had to use one of two barrels for the bathroom in the barracks.
What is 500?
In Auschwitz, Yanek makes another vow, a vow to...
What is never forget?
The term prisoners at the camp gave B III.
What is Mexico?
The term the prisoners gave for the place that held all the valuables and clothing items taken from Jewish prisoners at camp.
What is Canada?