Yanek's Journey
Yanek survives how many different concentration camps throughout the book?
10
Unlike concentration camps used for slave labor, these types of camps were designed specifically for mass murder.
Extermination Camps
Before being sent to camps, many Jews were forced into these sealed-of sections of cities designed to cause starvation and disease.
This story begins in 1939 in which country?
Poland
Alan Gratz based the character of Yanek Gruener on this real-life Holocaust survivor.
Jack Gruener
To hide from the Nazis in the ghetto, Yanek's family lives in a secret room located where?
A pigeon coop on the roof
What were the laws that stripped Jews of their German citizenship and prohibited them from holding public office?
The Nuremberg Laws
This notorious doctor performed horrific medical experiments on prisoners, specifically focusing on twin studies.
Josef Mengele
This was the walled-off section of the city where the Jewish population was forced to live in cramped conditions.
The Krakow Ghetto
What does the letter 'B' in Yanek's tattoo B-3087 stand for?
Birkenau
At Birkeneau, Yanek receives what identifier tattooed on his arm?
B-3087
To identify themselves in public, Jews were forced to wear what symbol on their clothing?
The Star of David
Approximately how many Jewish people were killed during the Holocaust?
6 million
Birkenau
After the war, Yanek eventually moves to this country to start a new life.
United States
Yanek and other prisoners are forced to walk for days in the freezing cold between camps, an event known as a what?
What was the largest extermination camp, capable of killing 6,000 people a day using gas chambers?
Auschwitz
What was the primary chemical used in the gas chambers at extermination camps?
Cyanide
To keep his sense of humanity, Yanek makes sure to do this every day, even when there is no soap.
While at Auschwitz, Yanek breaks his uncle's rule of anonymity by befriending this boy, who is later killed.
Fred
Dachau
Which two countries were a majority of the concentration and extermination camps located?
Germany and Poland
4-5 million
At Bergen-Belsen, Yanek encounters a cruel kapo known by this nickname due to his scared, round face.
Moonface
What was the color of the uniforms of the American soldiers who finally rescued Yanek?
Green