Schindler's List Word Scramble
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| Question | Answer |
| 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 Cracow? | Bachner - a young pharmacist |
| What story did he have to tell? | of the final horror - 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 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 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? | that he was physically abusive |
| What kind of man did Goeth consider himself? | sensitive |
| With what did Goeth’s orders entrust him? | the 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 employees; 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? (Where did they work?) | the 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 made 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 (healthy, hoping, opinionated) 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? (What did they plan to use?) | through the sewer system |
| What did Pfefferberg witness as he hid behind the steel gate in 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 Goeth stepped out on his balcony and did what? This became a ritual at the labor camp. | murdered 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 though Schindler was kidding him about? | prepare for Shabbat |
| Some weeks Schindler had to find as many as _________ loaves of round bread for his Schindlerjuden? | 3,000 |
| When Goeth, during an inspection of the enamel works, directed that his 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 of Crakow |
| When the young boy was to be hanged what happened when the support was taken out from under him? | the rope broke |
| What eventually happened to the boy? | he was shot by Goeth whom he crawled to |
| 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? | the bad liquor he drank |
| What plan did they devise to fix this problem? | they brought Goeth a crate of first-rate cognac and suggested Schindler mention to Goeth that the war would end and that there would be investigations into the actions of individuals |
| Remember Bosko, the guard at the gate to the ghetto? What happened to him? | he ran away from his police station and vanished into the forest. Later, he was recognized in a village west of Crakow and shot as a traitor |
| Every night the women in the barracks went to sleep listening to someone play what music? | Brahms's "Lullaby" |
| Two men came to Schindler’s office. Schindler sent for Stern and asked him to do what? | to write a full report on the situation in Plaszow |
| How did Schindler get these two men into Plaszow? | as "brother industrialists" on a tour of the camps |
| What was to be the signal should Stern think there was something these two should see? | Stern was to bend down and tie his shoestring |
| What did one of the men carry with him that could have gotten them all shot? | a 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 slave-labor camps was the same as prolonging the life of a number of slaves |
| The Jews in Schindler’s camp thanked God that Schindler was kinder to them than to _________. | his wife |
| How much of the money coming in from the resistance did Schindler keep for himself? | none |
| What was an immediate ticket to Auschwitz? | pregnancy |
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