Yanek
The Ghetto
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The Real Yanek
100

Yanek's real name was?

Jacob Gruener

100

True or False: The ghetto had a cement wall around it.

True

100

The first camp Yanek went to was called __________.

Plaszow Concentration Camp

100

Yanek found a lump in a man's striped uniform. What was it?

A wooden horse

100

The real Yanek is ______________________.

Jack Gruener.

200

Yanek was how old when the war started?

Ten years old

200

What did Mrs. Immerglick yell at Yanek for?

For bouncing a ball so much in the hallway.

200

How many racks to sleep on did each bunk have?

Three

200

When Yanek thought a man was escaping, he was actually running towards the fence to get what?

Electrocuted. 

200

What is the name of Jack's wife?

Ruth Gruener.

300

Yanek survived how many concentration camps?

Ten camps

300

Yanek's family hid in a __________________.

Pigeon coop

300

The strangest camp had a ____________ for the families and SS soldiers of the camp.

A zoo

300

What did Moonface go to Yanek?

He punched him in the nose because he looked at him funny.

300

Ruth's wife used to do this when she was twelve and hiding?

Read a book in the corner.

400

True or False: Yanek has two siblings.

False

400

Why did Yanek get deported from the tailor shop in the ghetto?

They needed more tailors at the camps.

400

The job that Yanek did the most in camp was what? 

Anything with rocks-breaking rocks or moving rocks.

400
Why did Yanek wait to get at the end of the soup line?

Because the thicker parts of the soup were at the bottom of the pot making it meater.

400

Jack and Ruth live in ___________________.

Brooklyn, New York

500

Why did Yanek change his name to Jack.

That was the name the American soldier gave him when he found him.

500

What is a Judenrat?

A Jew that tattles on other Jews like a kapo.

500

What was the name of Yanek's only true friend in a camp?

Fred

500

The camp that had the "camp fever" or Typhus was called?

Dachau

500

Ruth wrote a book called __________________.

Out of Hiding

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