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Schindler's List
Chapters 16 through 25
Question | Answer |
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How many people had been cleared out of the ghetto by the end of the Aktion | 7000 |
From whom did Schindler get his information | Police contacts and clearheaded Jews like Stern |
Who returned from Prokocim to Krakow | Bachner, a young pharmacist |
What story did he have to tell | Of the final horrors – the gas chamber |
What brought Bachner home | The pull of the known |
From Bachner’s testimony how many people could be exterminated in a day at Belzec | 3000 |
The resistance claimed that how many more was the capacity at Auschwitz II | 10,000 |
What was Schindler’s story to the bureaucrats that enabled him to build a hut on his patch of wasteland | A rest area for the night shift |
Who else besides Schindler considered himself a potential witness | Bosko |
How many did Bosko want to save | everyone |
Where was Mrs. Dresner able to hide Danka | Behind the false wall of a neighbor’s house |
What was the name of the Austrian dentist chosen to bring Occupation zloty into Poland | Sedlacek |
Where did he hide the money | In the bottom of a false-bottomed suitcase |
Where did he ask Schindler to go | Budapest |
Who was it supposed that had submitted Schindler’s name for the post of righteous person | Stern, Ginter, Biberstein |
Schindler’s expanded workshop employed how many Jews | 550 |
Why did the SS have four jewelers brought to the basement of the old Technical Academy | To classify confiscated jewelry |
What did they find when they got there | Racks full of suitcases and briefcases and wooden crates |
How long did it take for the jewelers to complete their work | 6 weeks |
Where were the crates they completed being sent | To Himmler in Berlin |
What is the translation of the German phrase over the door of the mess hall | “Entrance forbidden to Jews and dogs.” |
Why was it better if Schindler does not have to present his papers at the border | He can deny he ever went to Hungary that December |
Whom did Schindler meet with when he got off the train | Springmann |
According to Schindler once the body fat is gone what does the body begin to work on | The brain |
What was in favor of the labor camps | They lacked the technical apparatus for methodical slaughter |
The Vernichtungslagers used people as labor for a time, but their ultimate industry was death and its byproducts. What were the byproducts of death | Recycled clothes, remaining jewels or spectacles, toys, skin and hair of the dead |
What does Schindler think of Schmidt | He is a thief |
What does Schmidt get that Schindler does not want | A percentage of the occupation money |
As Schindler was on his way back from Budapest, who was on his way to Lublin to take command of Plaszow | Amon Goeth |
How are Goeth and Schindler similar | Catholicism; degrees in engineering, physics, and math; year of birth; weakness for liquor; massive physique |
What could both of Goeth’s former wives have testified to about his behavior | He was physically abusive |
What kind of man did Goeth consider himself | sensitive |
With what did Goeth’s orders entrust him | Extinction of the ghetto and command over Plaszow camp |
How many residents were there in Ghetto B | 2000 |
Explain the classifications on the new identification cards for residents of the ghettos. | W=army; Z=employees of civil authorities; R=workers in essential industry |
What was to happen to the inhabitants of Ghetto B | they were to be shipped away for “Special Treatment” |
The greater portion of the ghetto contained how many residents | 10,000 |
What occupied the residents of the larger portion of the ghetto | Factories of the Plaszow camp |
What did Goeth remark when Kunde showed him the remains of the Jewish cemetery | They won’t have to go far to be buried |
What would the synagogue mortuary become | Camp stable |
To Goeth what would the fences be rather than an essential precaution | A mental comfort for the prisoners |
For what would recycled Jewish clothing be used | Sent to bombed out families in Germany |
Which two factory owners did Goeth particularly want to win over | Madritsch, Schindler |
What could Commandant Goeth tell instinctively about these two men | Madritsch would be reasonable and move in, Schindler would refuse |
For what would the “Polish defaced” gravestones be used | Interior roads |
How much did each of the trolleys of limestone weigh | 6 tons |
How was the limestone hauled | Teams of women dragging on cables set on either side of the rock truck |
How had Goeth impressed upon the men of the camp what the full terms of their labor were | He performed a summary execution |
Who was Diana Reiter | A prisoner who was an architectural engineer assigned to the construction of the barracks |
What did Diana Reiter not know about Goeth | That he hated her the worst |
What did Goeth feel about Reiter’s argument concerning the foundation | That it threatened his personal integrity |
What happened to Reiter | Goeth had Hujar shoot her |
What was the practical value of this act of execution | That no one in Plaszow would consider himself essential |
What was the only chance of the others | Prompt and anonymous labor |
As for Hujar and his colleagues, what did they now know | That instantaneous execution was to be the permitted style |
Among men like Goeth, the word gratitude did not have an abstract meaning. Gratitude was a __________ | payoff |
What did Schindler tell the Jews remaining in hiding in the ghetto about hiding the night before the final Aktion | They should not try hiding unless they were sure of the hiding place |
How many women did Goeth plan on to put in each of the barracks at the new camp | 200 |
What was significant about the last morning of the ghetto | It was Shabbat |
According to Stern, Plaszow was a labor institution; it wasn’t like Belzec where they made death like _____ made _____ | Henry Ford , cars |
The ghetto at this time had been divided into two sections. What is the difference between the two | Ghetto A was where the working Jews lived; Ghetto B was where the old and last of the unemployable lived |
What did Drs. H and B do with their sick patients | Gave them cyanide |
How did Pfefferberg and his wife plan to escape | sewer system |
What did Pfefferberg witness as he hid behind the steel gate I the lumber yard | The soldiers with dogs and the murder of a woman and child |
The SS did not seem alarmed by the fact that prisoners at Plaszow witnessed their executions on the hill. Why not | They did not look on the prison population as ultimate witnesses |
Every morning Goethe stepped out on his balcony and did what | This became a ritual at the labor camp. Murder a prisoner at random |
How often were the Ukrainian guards at Emalia switched | Every 2 days |
Why were the guards rotated in such a way | So no guard had time to develop a fatal grudge against a prisoner |
Why was Goeth drawn to Rabbi Levartov | He was a man of presence |
How did Levartov get himself into trouble with Goeth during a routine inspection | He was making hinges and, in an effort to prove to Goeth that he was skilled and useful, demonstrated how quickly he could make them |
What did Levartov tell Goeth he had been doing that saved him from certain death | Shoveling coal |
After arriving at Emalia, what did Schindler arrange for Levartov to do that, at first, the rabbi thought Schindler was kidding him about | Prepare for Shabbat |
Some weeks Schindler had to find as may as ____ loaves of round bread for his Schindlerjuden | 3000 |
When Goeth, during an inspection of the enamel works, directed that this bodyguard execute Lamus, what price did Schindler pay for the man to be spared | vodka |
What qualified the brothers Danziger to be qualified above all for execution | Their orthodox aura |
Every now and then what did Goeth do to show that he was still in charge of the camp even though the prisoners referred to it as “Schindler’s camp” | an exemplary hanging |
Who was the hangman in Plaszow | A Jewish butcher from Cracow |
When the young boy was to be hanged what happened when the support was taken out from under him | Rope broke |
What eventually happened to the boy | He was shot |
Krautiwirt, the other man waiting to be hanged, did what after witnessing what happened to the boy | Slashed his wrists with a razor blade he had hidden in his sleeve |
What did the dentist from Budapest and Schindler decide was making Goeth unreasonable | Bad liquor |
What plan did they devise to fix this problem | They bought him a case of good cognac then suggested that there would be investigations at the end of the war |
Remember Bosko, the guard at the gate to the ghetto? What happened to him? | He walked off into the forrest. Later he was recognized and shot as a traitor. |
Every night the women in the barracks went to sleep listening to someone play what music | Brahm’s “Lullaby” |
Two men came to Schindler’s office. Schindler sent for Stern and asked him to do what | Write a full report on the situation in Plaszow |
How did Schindler get these two men into Plaszow | As “brother industrialists” |
What was to be the signal should Stern think there was something these two should see | He would tie his shoe |
What did one of the men carry with him that could have gotten them all shot | Miniature camera |
Why did Stern stop at the quarry | The Germans destroyed men at this rock face |
What was used to transport the dead to the woods | Bloody wheelbarrows |
Why do the prisoners keep Plaszow running | Prolonging the life of the camp prolonged the life of the prisoners |
The Jews in Schindler’s camp thanked God that Schindler was kinder to them than to _____. His wife | his wife |
How much money coming in from the resistance did Schindler keep for himself | none |
What was an immediate ticket to Auschwitz | pregnancy |