Vocabulary 2
lacking energy b/c of little oxygen in the blood
anemic
Teutonic Knights
Military Weapons and equipment
munitions
May 5, 1922
Irena's birthday
total number of people Irena saved
12
malicious or evil behavior
malevolence
A reused symbol throughout a story to help stress a theme
Motif
LOUD prolonged noise
din
Kozienice
the place where Irena was born
peace pact made by Russia and Germany that was broken
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
something that can be felt or touched
A singular form of a word that represents a wingless parasite
louse
wild and noisy disorder of confusion
pandemonium
nice Doctor who tried to help Irena
David
Treaty showing peace conditions and agreement in 1947
Paris
government department; having food or supplies
commissariat
Types of tanks that ravaged the land in the attack on Poland
panzer
to enchant or mystify
bewitching
motif being used by Irena to compare herself to
a bird
the Jewish Holocaust began in 1933, but this was the name of the final four years to answer the "Jewish question"
Final Solution
cadre
a group of activists to support a specific purpose
In Kozlowa Gora pilgrims would come to see this statue
Black Madonna
to take possession of something like food, goods, land
commandeered
location in which Irena becomes Rachel
Svetlana
1.3 million Jews sent here
Auschwitz