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Schindler's List
Chapters 1 - 15
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| On what date did General List's armored divisions take Krakow | September 6, 1939 |
| What characteristics of Krakow did Schindler pinpoint that would make the town a boomtown of the new regime | railroad junction, modest industries |
| What was Schindler's hometown | Zwittau |
| For what profession was Schindler educated | engineering |
| What religion did the Schindler family practice | Catholicism |
| What was Oskar Schindler's favorite sport as a young man | racing motorcycles |
| Why did Oskar's father disapprove of his marriage | he could see it would be the same kind of uneasy marriage as his own |
| Since the pair were so mismatched some in the village began to suspect Oskar had another reason for the marriage. What was the other reason | her dowry of a half million Reich marks |
| On what grounds did Schindler abhor military life | discomfort |
| What talents did Schindler possess which enabled him to get a job even in the midst of the Depression | business contacts, conviviality, salesmanship, ability to hold his liquor |
| What could the women of Schindler's family see about him and his father that he could not see for himself | that they were brothers separated by the accident of paternity |
| Why did Schindler wear the emblem of the Sudeten German Party | to be successful in business - if you went in wearing the emblem, you got the order |
| Who were the two people whose opinions Schindler most respected | Emilie and his father |
| Why did Emilie believe Hitler would not succeed | she believed he would be punished for making himself God |
| What position did Schindler accept in the Foreign Section of the Abwehr | spy |
| What was Stern's procedure for dealing with unsuitable currency | he burned them |
| How did he write off these transactions | free samples |
| What was Stern's first impression of Schindler | he was not a manageable German |
| By government edict, what was Stern obligated to tell Schindler | that he was a Jew |
| What other edicts had been passed by Hans Frank in the seven weeks of the new Order in Poland | declare their origins, carry a distinctive registration card, the preparation of kosher meats was forbidden, forced labor for Jews, food rations were little more than half that of a non-Jewish Pole, all Krakovian Jews were required to register |
| How did Stern believe the Jewish race would survive | petitioning / buying off authorities |
| In what Polish company was Schindler interested | Rekord - an enamelware factory |
| What was Stern's ancestral gift | the ability to sniff out the just Goy who could be used as a buffer or partial refuge against he 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 Pfefferberg |
| What had been Pfefferberg's job before he was in the army | high school P.E. teacher |
| How did Pfefferberg support himself after his escape once the Jewish schools closed | selling jewelry 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 |
| Beyond practical results, what purpose was the first Aktion meant to serve | to provide notice to the dismayed people of the old Jewish quarter |
| 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 was the Madagascar Plan | that Madagascar should become one large concentration camp |
| What would replace the Madagascar solution | Zyklon B |
| During the campaign around Warsaw, what had the Einsatzgruppen done to the Jews | hung them up in the synagogue, ruptured their systems with water, raided their homes on Sabbath or feast days, cut off their prayer locks, set their prayer shawls afire, stood them against a wall |
| 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 had the Jews always bought off the civil authorities | cooperating with them then negotiating |
| 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 had the main work for the Judenrat become | drawing up lists for forced labor for transfer to the camps |
| What did Schindler give Klonowska for Christmas | a poodle |
| What did Schindler give Emilie and Ingrid for Christmas | jewelry |
| What did Schindler notice was missing from the Church of St. Mary | the triptych |
| What did Schindler like about under-the-counter business | the sport, the disrepute, the fast returns, the lack of paperwork |
| 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 |
| How much did Schindler pay per day for skilled workers | 7.50 Reich marks |
| How much did Schindler pay per day for unskilled workers | 5 Reich marks |
| What did Madritsch's factory produce | uniforms |
| What was Stern's objective for having Schindler and Madritsch employ more Jews | to give the ghetto economic permanence |
| 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 |
| What was the main thing Schindler wanted to relate to his new workers | they were safe; if they worked with him they would live through the war |
| 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 |
| When all education for Jews was abolished in December 1940, what job was Poldek offered | managing the waiting lines and keeping the appointments book in the Judenrat housing office |
| 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 |
| Who was the final authority for all Jewish matters in Krakow | SS Oberfuhrer Julian Scherner |
| What did Scherner favor over killing the Jews | working them |
| What rumor made Pfefferberg want to escape the force | that all OD men would be made to swear an oath to Hitler |
| 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 |
| For what crime was Schindler arrested the second time | kissing Jewish girl |
| What reputation did Montelupich prison have | provided corpses to the Jagiellonion Institute of Anatomy |
| 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 did Olek Rosner escape the ghetto and imminent Aktion | under the cape of Richard the chef's girlfriend |
| How old was Olek Rosner when he escaped the ghetto | 6 |
| Why had Pfefferberg refused Schindler's offer to come to Emalia | he felt it would be too constricting on his illegal activities |
| 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 |
| What did Toffel tell Schindler to do unless he expected a break in production | set up some camp beds for his night shift until after the first Sabbath in June |
| When did Toffel suggest Schindler take his suggestion concerning the break in production | by the first Sabbath in June |
| What did Toffel know that Schindler did not | procedures in the ghetto were getting more intense |
| 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 |
| What were those lined up for the cattle cars at the rail station still convinced of the value of | passive and orderly response |
| 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 had Schindler's workers failed to pick up from the old Polish Savings Bank | their blue stickers |
| 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 |
| What became clear during the day about the OD's bludgeoning of some people | it was saving them from worse things |
| What was the new rule for the OD | if you failed to deliver a family your own family was forfeit |
| 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 |
| How did Schindler know the SS men participating in the Aktion in "Chapter 15" feel no shame | they didn't keep Genia from seeing what they were doing |
| 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 |
| What 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 |
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