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Final Test Schindler
Question | Answer |
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On what date did General List`s armored divisions take Krakow? | Sept. 6 1939 |
What characteristics of Krakow did Schindler pinpoint that would make the town a boomtown of the new regime? | rail road junction, modest industries |
For what profession was Schindler educated? | Engineers |
What religion did the Schindler family practice? | catholism |
what was Oskar Schindler's favorite sport as a young man | racing motorcycles |
Since the pair were so mismatched osme in the village began to suspect Oskar had another reason for the marriage. What was the other reason? | Money |
On what grounds did Schindler abhor military life? | discomfort |
What could the women of Schindlers family see about him and his father that he could not see for himself? | that they were brothers separated by the accident of paternity |
Who were the people whose opinions Schindler most respected? | Emilie and his father |
Why did Emilie believe Hitler would not succeed? | she believed he would be punished ofr making himself God |
What position did Schindler accept in the Foreign Section of the Abwehr | spy |
What was Sterns procedure for dealing with unsuitable currency | he burned them |
How did he write off these transactions | free samples |
What was Sterns first impression of Schindler | he was not a manageable German |
By government edict, what was Stern obligated ot tell Schindler | that he was a Jew |
In what Polish company was Schindler that autumn? | Rekord |
what was Sterns ancestral gift | ablitiy to sniff out the just Goy who could be used as a buffer or partial refuge against the other savageries of others |
What did Stern come to believe about his first meeting and conversation with Schindler | that at that moment he had dropped the right seed in the right furrow |
What other Krakow jew met schindler that autumn | Leopold Pfefferburg |
What had been Pfefferburgs job before he was in the army | high school pe teacher |
How did Pfefferberg support himself after his escape once the Jewish schools closed | selling jewerly on the black market |
Why did Schindler visit Pfefferberg's mother | to offer her a commission |
Of what disease did his friends say Schindler suffered | generosity |
What kind of officers was Schindler able to sniff out | sympathetic ones |
The Einsatz soldiers knew that a struggle for national existence meant what | race warfare |
What did Special Chivalrous Duty mean | the hot barrel of a gun |
What would replace the Madagascar | Zyklon B |
What would the gangster Redlicht refuse to do | spit on the Torah |
Who was Schindler's Polish mistress | Victoria Klonowska |
Who was Schindler's German mistress | Ingrid |
What did Schindler always believe was the best way to untie bureaucracy's Gordian know short of bribery | booze |
How many members sat on the Judenrat | 24 |
How many members are there, at any given point in time, of the Righteous of the Nations | 36 |
List items considered to be portable wealth. | diamonds, gold, trade goods |
What was Schindler by nature | a payer |
In Chapter 6, how many Jews was Schindler employing at his factory | 150 |
Other than Schindler who was considered to be a sympathizer | Julius Madritsch |
Stern believed that Schindler's problem with the C's would only become relevant upon what occasion | if he established a brutal pattern |
What did Schindler give Klonowska for Christmas | a poodle |
What did Schindler give Emilie and Ingrid for Christmas | jewelry |
What was new edict "Gen. Gub 44/91" | establishment of the Jewish ghetto |
What often happened to pretty, brilliant daughters of city Jewry as they emerged from lecture halls | their faces were slashed with razors |
What did the ghetto represent | stasis instead of flux |
What did Madritsch's factory produce | uniforms |
Once moved to the ghetto, what kind of home could a man with a wife and a large family expect | two rooms and use of a kitchen |
What happened to Edith Liebhold's husband | he had wandered into the forest and never returned |
Who were Schindler's allies against his father | his aunts, his sister, Emilie |
What excuse did Schindler give his friends for not being in uniform | essential industry |
What illegal goods did Pfefferberg run while working at the housing office | leatherwork, jewelry, furs, currency |
What about Pfefferberg made it easy for him to move around easily outside the ghetto | his Aryan looks |
What did Scherner favor over killing the Jews | working them |
What event made Schindler know that the Madagascar Plan was finished | Germany's invasion of Russia |
Why did Herr Schindler believe Hitler wasn't meant to last | he thought America would come down on him in the end |
At the end of 1941 when Schindler was arrested, the Gestapo men asked for what | his cashbooks / ledgers |
How many names did Schindler give Klonowska to call the first time he was arrested | 4 |
What was Schindler sure his first arrest concerned | the black market |
How much were the municipal authorities offering for every Jew betrayed | 500 zl |
What did the Dresner boys nickname the child that moved in with them | Redcap |
In reference to the child who moved in with the Dresners - what was the child's real name | Genia |
In reference to the child who moved in with the Dresners - with what relative did the child behave like a child | Her uncle, Idek Schindel |
How many names did Schindler write on his call list the second time he was arrested | 12 |
Czurda told Schindler that the Jews no longer had a future and that it was no longer old-fashioned Jew hate. What was it now | policy |
What color new sticker did the ghetto people hope the German clerks would attach to their identity cards | blue |
How old was Olek Rosner when he escaped the ghetto | 6 |
What medicine, other than cyanide, did the ghetto hospital have | water |
What happened to Szepessi because he had been so helpful | he was sent to Auschwitz |
When did Toffel suggest Schindler take his suggestion concerning the break in production | by the first Sabbath in June |
Who did not show up to work on June 3 | Abraham Bankier |
What had happened to the person in "Chapter 14" who did not show up to work on June 3 | marched out of the ghetto |
In "Chapter 14" where was Schindler's missing employee | already on a cattle car |
Late the previous year Schindler had seen an invitation for bids for the construction of something that now seemed very relevant. What was the bid for construction of | crematoria |
In reference to the construction bids Schindler knew of in "Chapter 14", where was this construction to take place | Lublin |
How many more of Schindler's workers were at the rail station | 13 |
What did the cattle cars tell those still left at the station | "We are all beasts together." |
Why were the elderly being taken to the Wieliczka salt mines | to seal them into unused chambers |
Who was in the line of women and children being marched out of the ghetto in "Chapter 15" that caught Schindler's attention | Red Genia |
Behind the departing column of women and children, SS men with dogs continued to work. What happened to those Jews who emerged from the buildings then | they were shot |
In reference to the Aktion witnessed by Schindler in "Chapter 15," what was even worse if there was no shame | it had official sanction |
In "Chapter 15" why were the SS men permitting witnesses | the witnesses would perish, too |
How old was Dr. Schindel's niece | 3 |
Was Schindel's niece saved | yes |
Where did Schindel's niece hide | under the bed |
What special weight did Schindler place on the day he witnessed the Aktion in "Chapter 15" | he would do everything he could to defeat the system |
From whom did Schindler get his information | Police contacts and clearheaded Jews like Stern |
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 |
Who else besides Schindler considered himself a potential witness | Bosko |
How many did Bosko want to save | everyone |
What was the name of the Austrian dentist chosen to bring Occupation zloty into Poland | Sedlacek |
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 |
Why did the SS have four jewelers brought to the basement of the old Technical Academy | To classify confiscated jewelry |
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 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 |
How many residents were there in Ghetto B | 2000 |
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 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 |
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 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 |
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 | Murder a prisoner at random |
How often were the Ukrainian guards at Emalia switched | Every 2 days |
Why was Goeth drawn to Rabbi Levartov | He was a man of presence |
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 |
Every night the women in the barracks went to sleep listening to someone play what music | Brahm’s “Lullaby” |
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 |
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 |
What is ODESSA | The postwar secret society of former SS men |
Where did Titsch hide his reels | Buried in a small park in Vienna |
What was Gen. Schindler’s specialty | production |
Why did Goeth keep his revolver lying at his elbow during his manicures | In case the manicurist nicked him |
What device did Oskar use to warn the prisoners when an SS officer demanded to go inside the factory | bell |
How did courting begin | With permission of elders |
What happened to the status of Plaszow | It was reclassified as a concentration camp |
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 prisoners arrange contact between each other | Code tunes, whistles |
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 |
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 |
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? | Plowed under dirt, no evidence no witness |
What did Department D charge Goeth to do | Find the dead |
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 |
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 |
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 | 10 |
What was to be done with the striped prison clothes the prisoners wore the 60 km to Auschwitz | Sent back for reuse |
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 |
What was Oskar’s initial reaction to the news that Emalia was to be disbanded | Cool rage |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 pay for the weapons | A diamond ring |
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 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 |
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 Schindler's | 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 Schindler's hope to take them | Switzerland |