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  • What is a POW?
    Prisoner of War
  • Who is Anja?
    Artie's mom, Vladek's wife, holocaust survivor
  • What is a concentration camp?
    A work camp where Jewish people were kept during WWII
  • What kind of storytelling is this?
    Comic strip
  • True or False: Vladek went to a sanatorium when he developed post partum depression.
    FALSE. Anja developed post partum depression and was taken to a sanatorium.
  • What does it mean: "There is CONFLICT between Germany and Poland."
    It means there is an issue/problem
  • What is an extermination camp?
    Like a concentration camp but designed specifically to kill prisoners
  • What is a character?
    a person in a story
  • What is a Tuchus?
    Butt, booty, behind or rear end in yiddish
  • True or False: Vladek was a POW.
    True.
  • Who is Adolf Hitler?
    Man responsible for WWII and the Holocaust
  • Who said, " I just don't want to live."
    Anja
  • What happened to Anja after the war?
    Anja committed suicide.
  • Who said, "why should I kill anyone?"
    Vladek
  • True or False: Vladek was captured by the enemy.
    True
  • What is a Pogrom?
    a mass killing of a group of a specific religious group like Jewish people
  • Where is Vladek from?
    Czestochowa
  • What is genocide?
    Mass murder of a group of people, systematic murder of a group of ppl
  • True or False: Auschwitz was the smallest concentration camp.
    False. It was the largest. 1.5 million Jews died at Auschwitz.
  • What is a Nazi?
    A person who worked for Hitler during WWII
  • Who started WWII?
    Adolf Hitler
  • True or False: Vladek is a Hungarian-Jew.
    False. Vladek is a Polish-Jew
  • What does WWII stand for?
    World War 2
  • The bond between student and teacher is a kind of _____________.
    relationship
  • Where do Anja and Richieu go to hide at the start of WWII?
    Sosnowiec
  • What is a Rabbi?
    a Jewish religious leader
  • How did Vladek's father try to keep him from being drafted to the army?
    By starving him
  • Who said, "I'm not going to die here. I want to be treated like a human being!"
    Vladek
  • What is setting?
    The place, time and/or surroundings in a story
  • Who is Vladek?
    Artie's dad, our Narrator, a holocaust survivor
  • What is a situational relationship?
    A relationship that only exists because of a shared setting.
  • What does "barter" mean?
    trade goods for other goods
  • What is foreshadowing?
    When the author gives a hint to what’s next
  • True or False: Women, children and the elderly were often first to enter the gas chambers.
    True.
  • What is a semite?
    A person that speaks a semitic language like a Jew
  • When did WWII happen?
    1939-1945
  • Who is Artie?
    Vladek's son, writing a book about his dad
  • What is a Jew?
    a Jewish person
  • What is the Holocaust?
    mass murder/genocide of Jewish people during WWII
  • Who is Richieu?
    Vladek and Anja's first baby who did not survive WWII
  • What is a flashback?
    a scene that is set in a memory
  • A swastika is a symbol of _______.
    Nazis/Nazism/Hate
  • Who is Mala?
    Vladek's current wife
  • What does it mean: "Hitler was an ANTI-SEMITE."
    Hitler was an "anti-semite" means that he hated semites which are Jewish people.
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