Characters (Modern Day)
This is the name of the main character as we are introduced to her at the beginning of the book.
Who is Hannah?
This the identity that the main character takes on when she is transported to the year 1942.
Who is Chaya?
What is Passover Seder?
Hannah entertains the other girls she meets by doing this.
What is telling them stories/recounting the plots of movies that she has seen?
The word "midden" is another word for this.
What is a garbage dump?
Hannah's time travel experience further develops her bond with this character, who was already her favorite aunt.
Who is Aunt Eva?
This woman, known to her neighbors as "the bear", takes in her niece who has just lost her parents to illness.
Who is Gitl?
Before traveling back in time, Hannah lives in this small city in New York.
What is New Rochelle?
What is Lublin?
"Malach ha-Mavis" means this.
What is "Angel of Death"?
This character is known to experience intense flashbacks due to the trauma he experienced during the holocaust.
Who is Grandpa Will?
When this man was sentenced to execution for attempting to escape, his fiance runs to his side so that they will die together.
Who is Schmuel?
Hannah recalls a time when she accidentally triggered a flashback for her grandfather after doing this.
What is writing numbers on her arm?
Hannah/Chaya is assigned to work in this place in the camp.
What is the kitchen?
The title "blokova" is used in reference to this person.
Who is the non-Jewish prisoner who was placed in charge of the barrack?
This is the name of Hannah's younger brother.
Who is Aaron?
This young girl teaches Hannah how to survive in the camp and "organize" certain things that will make her time there a little easier.
Who is Rivka?
Right before Hannah is transported to the past, her grandfather asks her to perform this tradition, which involves a biblical figure that is particularly important in Jewish religion.
What is opening the door for the Prophet Elijah?
"Lilith's Cave" is a code name for this.
What is the gas chamber?
The term "zugangi" was used to describe these people.
Who are newcomers in the camp?
This is the name of Hannah's modern-time best friend.
Who is Rosemary?
This man, known for his role as the local butcher, lost both of his children in the camp and went on to spend the rest of his life living with Gitl (as friends, of course).
Who is Yitzchak?
Hannah helps her brother through this tradition after he expresses his nervousness in the car.
What is the Four Questions?
This causes the prisoner who has been forced to tattoo the newcomers to realize that his daughter has died.
What is the Hannah/Chaya's dress?
Rivka used the term "musselman" to refer to these people.
Who are people who have given up on survival?