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Yanek survives how many different concentration camps throughout the book?

10

100

Unlike concentration camps used for slave labor, these types of camps were designed specifically for mass murder.

Extermination Camps

100

Before being sent to camps, many Jews were forced into these sealed-of sections of cities designed to cause starvation and disease.

Ghettos
100

This story begins in 1939 in which country?

Poland

100

Alan Gratz based the character of Yanek Gruener on this real-life Holocaust survivor. 

Jack Gruener

200

To hide from the Nazis in the ghetto, Yanek's family lives in a secret room located where?

A pigeon coop on the roof

200

What were the laws that stripped Jews of their German citizenship and prohibited them from holding public office?

The Nuremberg Laws

200

This notorious doctor performed horrific medical experiments on prisoners, specifically focusing on twin studies.

Josef Mengele

200

This was the walled-off section of the city where the Jewish population was forced to live in cramped conditions.

The Krakow Ghetto

200

What does the letter 'B' in Yanek's tattoo B-3087 stand for?

Birkenau

300

At Birkeneau, Yanek receives what identifier tattooed on his arm?

B-3087

300

To identify themselves in public, Jews were forced to wear what symbol on their clothing?

The Star of David

300

Approximately how many Jewish people were killed during the Holocaust?

6 million

300
This camp was famous for its "showers" that turned out to be gas chambers, though Yanek luckily received actual water.

Birkenau

300

After the war, Yanek eventually moves to this country to start a new life.

United States

400

Yanek and other prisoners are forced to walk for days in the freezing cold between camps, an event known as a what?

Death March
400

What was the largest extermination camp, capable of killing 6,000 people a day using gas chambers?

Auschwitz

400

What was the primary chemical used in the gas chambers at extermination camps?

Cyanide

400

To keep his sense of humanity, Yanek makes sure to do this every day, even when there is no soap.

Wash/clean himself
400

While at Auschwitz, Yanek breaks his uncle's rule of anonymity by befriending this boy, who is later killed.

Fred

500
What is the name of the final camp where Yanek is finally liberated by American soldiers?

Dachau

500

Which two countries were a majority of the concentration and extermination camps located?

Germany and Poland

500
Besides the 6 million Jews killed, roughly this many "other" people, including non-jewish victims, were also murdered. 

4-5 million

500

At Bergen-Belsen, Yanek encounters a cruel kapo known by this nickname due to his scared, round face.

Moonface

500

What was the color of the uniforms of the American soldiers who finally rescued Yanek?

Green