Who's Who in the Ghetto
Vladek's wife who struggles with severe despair and wants to give up when her family is taken away.
Anja
Vladek uses this dark substance to mask his scent from the Gestapo's search dogs in the cellar bunker.
Coal
Vladek uses this specific slang word to describe corrupt crooks and schemers like his cousin Haskel.
Combinator
In the 1980s, Artie is worried about drawing his father as the racist stereotype of the cheap, miserly old ___.
Jew
In Chapter 4, the Nazis publicly execute Vladek's friend Nahum Cohn and others by this method to scare people away from the black market.
Hanging
Vladek's nephew who decides he is "tired of hiding" and naively allows himself to be sent to Auschwitz.
Lolek
When hiding in Mrs. Motonowa's Cellar, Anja is frightened by what is down there. What is it?
Rats (not mice)
Vladek's group shows mercy to a starving stranger, but the stranger repays their kindness by doing this.
Turning them in to the Gestapo
Mala is incredibly frustrated with Vladek, pointing out that she also survived this historical event but doesn't act like him.
The Holocaust
When the Jewish police demand that Vladek's family hand over Anja's elderly grandparents, they threaten to do this to the rest of the family if they refuse.
They'll take the rest of the family instead.
Anja's sister who makes the tragic choice to poison herself and the children rather than go to the gas chambers.
Aunt Tosha
Vladek purposefully rides in the "Official" streetcar reserved for this group of people because it makes him look confident, not scared.
Germans
Pesach Spiegelman accidentally makes black-market desserts out of this non-food item, making everyone violently sick.
Laundry soap
At the very end of the book, Artie walks away in a rage, calling Vladek this terrible word.
Murderer
After the Polish governess turns them away, Vladek sneaks into the black market and manages to buy food and safety by trading these hidden valuables.
Gold / jewelry / watches
The cousin who survives the liquidation of the ghetto by hiding in a hollowed-out garbage pit.
Miloch Spiegelman
Vladek is able to get a safe job inside the Srodula ghetto because he knows how to repair these.
shoes
Haskel takes Vladek's valuables to save him, but he takes payment and abandons these two elderly people to die.
Anja's parents (Mr. and Mrs. Zylberberg)
Artie is furious at the end of Chapter 6 because Vladek admits he completely destroyed these.
Anja's Diaries
During the massive registration at the Dienst Stadium, Vladek's father sneaks over to the "bad" side of the fence so he doesn't abandon this person.
His daughter (Fela) and her children
The Polish woman who hides Vladek and Anja in her rat-infested cellar, but charges them money for the extreme risk.
Mrs. Motonowa
When Artie draws Vladek and Anja trying to blend in as non-Jewish Polish citizens, he draws them wearing masks of this animal.
Pig
The Polish smugglers trick Vladek by having the Gestapo force his nephew Abraham to write a letter in this specific language.
Yiddish
The name of one of Art's previous comics that discusses his mother's suicide.
Prisoner on the Hell Planet
The smugglers trick Vladek by promising to sneak him over the border into this specific country, claiming it is still safe for Jews.
Hungary