Isabel
What was happening in Cuba?
Riots, barely any food, and no gas for the tractors to harvest.
What was happening to the city of Aleppo?
Riots, bombings, and civil war that has been going on for 7 years now.
What does Kristallnacht mean?
The night of broken glass which was before the Holocaust.
Where did Isabel and Josef story intersect?
Isabel grandfather Lito was the officer that told the refugees aboard the St. Louis they were not allowed in.
Why did Mahmoud want to be invisible?
So he wouldn´t get mugged or beat up.
What happened to Isabel´s grandma?
A riptide took her into the ocean.
How had Waleed saved the day at the border with the military people?
He said were against who ever is bombing us.
What was the name on the ship that was Josef on to leave Berlin?
The M.S. Saint Louis.
Where did Mahmoud, Isabel, and Josef see someone die?
At sea. They all were on boats when this happened, expect Mahmoud because the dingy popped.
Where was Josef invisible?
On the train when he walked into the German cart, and in Berlin.
Were did Isabel get the gas for the raft?
The fisherman that lived on the pier.
Where was Mahmoud´s family trying to go to on the raft?
Going to Athens but the raft popped on the way there.
What did Cuba tell the passengers on the ship?
They didn't have the right visas, so the government wouldn´t let them in.
What two ways did Josef travel?
A train and a boat.
In the sea, why didn´t Mahmoud want to be invisible any more?
So a boat could see him in the water.
Were was Isabel heading on the raft?
El norte or Florida which they were heading for on the raft.
Where did Mahmoud end up across the Mediterranean?
The Greek island of Lesbo off the coast of Greek.
Why did Josef´s dad jump off the ship?
He jumped because he would rather die then go to a concentration camp.
What are three ways Mahmoud travel?
By walking, car, and dingy.
After arriving in Greece, when did Mahmoud wish he was actually invisible?
When he went to pray on the ferry.
Where did Isabel family and the Castillo family end up before their destination?
The Bahamas instead of El norte.
What did Mahmoud call all the refugee camps he went to?
He called them tents cities.
Where did Josef end up instead of Berlin or Cuba?
He ended up in France instead of Cuba.
How did Isabel travel?
By raft through the straits of Florida.
As he was walking through Austria, when was Mahmoud glad he was not invisible?
When he walked to Austria and people were throwing food to the refugees.