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Schindler's List
Chapters 26 through 38
Question | Answer |
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What are the ways Raimund Titsch made payments | Through chess matches with Goeth; photographs |
What is ODESSA | The postwar secret society of former SS men |
Where did Titsch hide his reels | Buried in a small park in Vienna |
How were the reels “brought to light”? | Leopold Pfefferberg bought them from Titsch for $500 |
During 1943 how many Wehrmacht uniforms did Madritsch produce | Better than 20, 000 |
What happened during General Julius Schindler’s visit to Madritsch | Stern’s friends in the power shed cut the lights |
What was Gen. Schindler’s specialty | production |
What happened when a girl it he office was reported for having a rind of bacon | The office workers were divided into 2 lines; the girls in one line were shot |
Why did Goeth keep his revolver lying at his elbow during his manicures | In case the manicurist nicked him |
List the atrocities the manicurist witnessed during the time she tended the Commandant’s hands. | Shoeshine boy shot for faulty work; 15 year old orderly hung from ring bolts because Goeth found fleas on one of the dogs’ executed his servant for lending a horse and carriage without asking first |
What device did Oskar use to warn the prisoners when an SS officer demanded to go inside the factory | bell |
What were the prisoners to do when the warning sounded | Stub out cigarettes; go back to their appointed bunks |
How did courting begin | With permission of elders |
What is strange about Oberscharfuhrer Hujar’s prison romance | He was ordered by Goeth to stop being a fool, took her for a walk in the woods and shot her in the nape of the neck |
What is the song “Gloomy Sunday” about | A young man about to commit suicide for love |
What did the violinist hope the effect of his playing of the song would be | The SS man’s suicide |
What did the Waffen SS man do | Shoot himself on the balcony |
Define sex in Plaszow. | Lice, crabs, and urgency inside the wire, murder and lunacy on its fringes |
What happened to the status of Plaszow | It was reclassified as a concentration camp |
What were the results of this reclassification | Police chiefs lost their direct control; labor fees no longer went to factory owners; Schindler had to ask for favors from more officials at Orianinberg |
At the Farer factory in Buna what did they do with the bodies of the starved | Throw them into cable ditches with the cables and cover them with cement |
Because of Plaszow’s new status, what changed with the fences | They were electrified |
How did Goeth see an advantage with the new fence situation | He could stand prisoners between the wires for hours as punishment |
How did prisoners arrange contact between each other | Code tunes, whistles |
How did Josef get in to the women’s barracks | Got a dead woman’s dress and joined the women’s lines |
How was Josef a gift to the older women in Rebecca’s barrack | They got to be their pre-war selves again |
Who officiated at the marriage of Josef and Rebecca | Josef’s mother |
Describe the wedding ceremony. | Rebecca circled Josef seven times and Josef crushed a glass (a spent light bulb) with his heel |
The sirens sounded in the camp for what reason | Three young Zionists escaped in a truckload of product |
What excuse did Josef give for being out of his bunk | diarrhea |
How many years has Oskar been in Krakow | 4 1/2 |
Why were the Rosners immune from Goeth’s wrath | Musical talent |
How did the Rosners get their eight-year-old son into Plaszow | Pfefferberg brought him in when he had gone to town to pick up toolboxes |
Why did the inmates of Plaszow now find it safer to encounter Goeth | The chiefs in Orianinberg did not permit summary execution |
Why did the Waffen SS dynamite the chambers and crematoria at the Treblinka, Sobibor, and Balzac | To leave no recognizable trace |
What would happen to Auschwitz once the “great task” was completed | Why |
What did Department D charge Goeth to do | Find the dead who had passed through Plaszow and burn the bodies |
Why did the execution of the Spira family shock Oskar | It showed that there was no obedience or obeisance a Jew could make to guarantee survival |
Whom did Oskar stress in particular when Stern questioned Schindler’s ability to get all the Jews out of Plaszow | Stern |
What about Mietek Pemper would bring about the hanging of Goeth | Photographic memory |
Why were the Hungarian Jews a windfall for the factories at Auschwitz | Hungary had just become a German Protectorate and they were in a better state of health |
Goeth told Section D that Plaszow could accept up to 10,000 more prisoners under what two conditions | He could liquidate the unproductive element inside the camp; he could impose double bunking |
How much air per person was to be allowed in the barracks | 3 cubic meters |
What did Goeth name his sorting-out process | Health Aktion |
How had the SS physician, Dr. Blancke, rid the prison of the chronically ill | He injected them with benzene |
What did the women rub on their cheeks to give the appearance of health | Red cabbage |
How many children had been discovered rung the inspection | Nearly 300 |
Had Rosner’s son been found in the camp | no |
At the end of the final sorting process how many adults and children stood at the eastern end of the camp | 1400 adults; 268 children |
What saved some of the children in the camp | They had never registered |
Why were the SS wary of the spaces in the rafters | They feared typhus, lice, rats |
How many others were in the latrine when the orphan went there to hide | 13 |
What was to be done with the striped prison clothes the prisoners wore the 60 km to Auschwitz | Sent back for reuse |
What did Oskar ask the NCO at the rear of the train to do in return for the hamper of liquor, cigarettes, cheese, and sausages | Open the cattle car doors when they stopped near stations |
Curing the railcar situation Goeth realized that Oskar was not so much reckless anymore but what | possessed |
What did Oskar and Garde listen to the radio all night long hoping to hear | Death of Hitler |
Goeth’s meeting with the factory owners was about what instead of security as Goeth claimed | Liquidation (closing) of the camp |
From what disease did Goeth suffer by this time | Liver disease |
For whom did Goeth want a space left at the end of his list of those executed for insurgency | An elderly man who had let it be known he had a store of diamonds hidden outside the camp |
What was Oskar’s initial reaction to the news that Emalia was to be disbanded | Cool rage |
In the relocation, where would the men from Plaszow be sent | The women |
In Oskar’s and Goeth’s game of blackjack, when Goeth began to lose heavily, what variation on the betting did Oskar suggest | They bet people |
Whose name was the first on Schindler’s list | Helen Hirsch |
What was it worth to be on Schindler’s list | everything |
Why was Colonel Eric Lange crucial to Oskar | (a) he could guarantee contracts (b) he could write recommendations |
The SS judge who questioned Pemper was afraid Goeth had shown what kind of sensitive documents to Pemper | Directives and plans to be followed in case of an assault on the camp by partisans |
To where was DEF to be moved from Cracow | Brinnlitz |
What did Oskar take with him to his meeting with Rash to help secure the Brno front | A diamond |
How much money did Oskar later estimate he spent to grease the transfer to Brinnlitz | $40,000 |
How many names were on Schindler’s preparatory list | 1.000 |
Where is a copy of the list today | Yad Vashem |
How many names did Titsch and Oskar add to the list | Almost 70 |
The list was vulnerable through what person | Goldberg, the personnel clerk |
How many prisoners had Schindler been granted | 1000 |
With what did Pfefferberg buy his and Mila’s way onto the list | vodka |
How many men were on the list | 800 |
How many women were on the list | 300 |
In American dollars how much was Schindler paying each week for labor (male and female total) | $18,000 |
Who had come to live with Schindler | Emilie |
Where were the women mistakenly sent | Auschwitz - Birkenau |
According to Hoss, how many people could be gassed in Auschwitz each day if the system was working well | 9,000 |
Why were the extermination centers no longer a secret | The Russians had excavated the Lublin camp and found furnaces containing human bones and more than 500 drums of Zyklon B |
On what date was the final selection for the gas chambers believed to have been made | October 30 |
What happened to most of those left after the gassing stopped | They were shot |
What happened to all the crematoria workers | They were shot |
At Schindler’s camp what became the prisoners’ vengeance | Slow work |
How did Schindler now intend to make his living | On the black market |
How many days did the SS hold Schindler when they arrested him for the third time | 8 days |
What has always been the most powerful of answers to give to the suicidal | Kill yourself and you’ll never know how the plot ends |
Why was the new commandant looking for children in the camps | For Dr. Mengele’s experiments |
Other than being a hazard to health, why was typhus feared at Brinnlitz | It was reason to close the camp |
How was typhus carried | Louse bite |
What did the factory at Brinnlitz produce | nothing |
What did Schindler do to the inspector who claimed he could not be bribed by Schindler | Oskar tripped him on the stairs; the man fell, split open his head, and broke his leg |
Where did most of the weapons in Schindler’s arsenal come from | Rasch – SS and police chief of Moravia |
What did Schindler pay for the weapons | A diamond ring |
Who were the Budzyn people | Jewish officers and men of the Polish Army who had lived through the liquidation of the Budzyn labor camp |
What did Schindler and Sussmuth connive to do over the winter of 1944-45 | Get 3,000 more women out of Auschwitz |
Why did Schindler ask for 30 more workers | Simply because it was 30 more souls |
Richard Horowitz was detained in Auschwitz for what purpose | Medical experiments |
Why did Feigenbaum father and son count the steps from Brinnlitz to where they buried Janka | So they could find her body after the war |
For the Brinnlitz prisoners what was the one way left to restore humanity | ritual |
What luxury did Schindler provide for his workers on his 37th birthday | White bread |
What were the instructions in the telegram, intercepted by Pemper, that Liepold had received that week | How to dispose of the population in case the Russians drew near |
What was Schindler’s reaction to the telegram | To get rid of Liepold |
What two main promises did Schindler make in his birthday speech | (a) the great tyranny was coming to a close, (b) he would stay at Brinnlitz until the end of hostilities was announced |
What gift did the prisoners present Schindler with on the night of final peace | A ring; “He who saves a single life saves the world entire,” a Talmudic verse |
At what moment did Schindler become dependent on the prisoners for gifts | The moment he put on the ring |
Using the contents of a warehouse for which Schindler had obtained a storage contract, with what was chandler able to provide the prisoners before he left | A starting stake; coat, uniform and underwear fabric, thread and shoes |
How much was the store of supplies worth | $150,000 |
How did Schindler and Emilie dress when they left | In prison stripes |
How many prisoners volunteered to go with the Schindlers | 8 |
Why would the Schindlers’ Mercedes not start | Someone, afraid of their departure, had cut the wires |
What did some of the Brinnlitz prisoners do to the Kapo from Gross-Rosen | Hanged him |
Why did the Brinnlitz prisoners hang typhus signs on the wire | To scare away the SS |
How many Russians were in the group what liberated the camp | 1 |
Which way did the Russian tell the prisoners not to go | East or West. They weren’t liked anywhere |
Why did Richard Horowitz become hysterical at playgrounds | The swing frames reminded him of what he had witnessed |
Where had the prisoners traveling with the Schindlers hope to take them | Switzerland |