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Entry six 5-7-11 Pages 55-67 Vocabulary Welled pg.57- Bigotry pg.57- the intolerance and prejudice of a bigot Kovno pg.56- a town now by the name of Kaunas. Permitted pg.56- allowed Partisan pg.55- devoted to a cause or party

Summary Mina and the Beakers were being forced from there homes. The Beakers had everything that they were going to bring with them. However Mina took to long and then was able to bring nothing. The soldiers forced them into the ghetto.

Entry seven 5-10-11 pages 68-80 vocabulary Aktion- Burlap- a type of material Execution- murder Bloodbath- slang word for street executions Appell- role calls

Summary Judi is going on secret very dangerous missions. Another Jewish man has asked her if she would because she doesn't look at all Jewish. Because there is no money Judi is going around the ghetto collecting rings and other small valuable items. During the night she sneaks through the hole her mother made in the barbed wire and going to town. There is a small food source so a diamond ring cam only buy five loaves of bread.

8th journal entry Pages 80-92 Vocabulary Stutthof- a concentration camp annihilate - kill in large numbers intestinal - of or relating to or inside the intestines stamina - enduring strength and energy nasturtium - flowers and seeds and leaves all used as flavorings

Summary Mina and the beakers are now at the concentration camp. They learn quickly how hard it is to just survive. Judi Beaker will usually see four or five people topple off their chairs and die from exhaustion, disease, or hunger. Judi also is young and has no clue what is happening or what some things are. The smokestack from the crematorium she is convinced is the oven ventilation. There is large piles of shoes and glasses that were taken upon entry when they were given there wooden shoes. Some got a right and a left others got two of the same foot. Some were too big others were too small or even two different sizes. Judi is learning how hard it is to live in the concentration camp.

Journal entry nine 4-16-11 Summary Judi had one of the comanders papers. She was so hungry she ate it. When the commander came looking for it Judi told him what happened. Then the commander punched her in the side and head. She fell of her chair then the commander kicked her in the side and back. Everyone was ordered to go there barracks and leave Judi in the snow. After the guards left of course Rachel went and picked up Judi. It took Judi days to recover from her injuries. Vocabulary Aktion-??? spearhead - the leading military unit in an attack Wehrmacht-??? nix - command against executed - put to death as punishment

Journal entry ten 4-17-11 Summary Judi and Rachel are awaken early one morning by the blare of a Nazi on the loudspeaker. They were told that they had one hour to get ready to leve the camp. They were so excited however when they got to the gate there were not any trucks or trains. That meant they were going to have to walk. All of a sudden it wasnt joy it was fear that they were feeling. All of the prisoners were being led on a death march. Vocabulary convoy - the act of escorting while in transit Danzig-a city in Poland known as Gdansk notorious - known widely and usually unfavorably infamous - known widely and usually unfavorably envisioned - seen in the mind as a mental image

Entry eleven 4-17-11 summary Soon after they left the camp there was a very odd shaking and the Rachel noticed the sound of airplanes. It was hard to hear them because of the blizzard. Seconds after the sound there was an explosion. They were being bombed Rachel and Judi grabbed eachothers hands and dove onto a ditch and began to pray. There were two bombs. After the second one hit. The gaurds that were left rounded up the rest of the prisoners and kept going. The sisters, Rachel and Judi stayed hiding in the ditch and stayed there no one noticed them. They found a farmhouse and the owners there allowed them to stay there. Vocabulary droning - an unchanging intonation erupt - start abruptly malnutrition - a state of poor nutrition dilemma - state of uncertainty or perplexity especially as requiring a choice between equally unfavorable options crippled - disabled in the feet or legs

Entry 12 Vocabulary freighter - a cargo ship billow - rise up as if in waves thrash - a swimming kick used while treading water Sapped - took extensive - large in spatial extent or range or scope or quantity

Summary Judi told Rachel to stop. She saw a German pilot that was suffering a major arm injury. She took off her apron and wrapped his arm in it. Then they drug him away from the burning buildings. Everyone else went to a shelter for protection. Shortly after the two friends helped the pilot the shelter was hit by a bomb. Everyone inside it died.

Entry 13 Vocabulary outpatient - a patient who does not reside in the hospital where he is being treated dumbfounded - as if struck dumb with astonishment and surprise Einsatzgruppen - Nazi killing squads hoax - subject to a playful hoax or joke testify - give testimony in a court of law

Summary The Jews are liberated!!! However there were also bad things that happened with all if the good things that happened. 85,000 people died while Stutthof was still running. On a death march that the Beaker sisters escaped there were about 5,000 Jews that were gunned down. When the Jews were in the ghettos 28,000 died in the war.

Entry 14 Vocabulary traumatize - inflict a trauma upon activist - a militant reformer vicious - having the nature of vice bigotry - the intolerance and prejudice of a bigot wed - having been taken in marriage

Summary The Beaker sisters were amazed. They were so surprised to get a postcard from there brother, Abe. The sisters had assumed that Abe was dead. To there surprise they found out that he survived the horrors of the camp. He was living in Toronto, Canada. When Judi found out about this she immigrated to Canada so that they could be together.

Entry 15 Vocabulary Mamusiu - polish for mommy anguish - extreme mental distress blubber - cry or whine with snuffling Tluste - ???? volksdeutsche - ????

Summary One year after Judi had moved to Canada, she married. She met a man on the voyage over. His name is Gabe Cohen. Then Judi and her husband moved to Philadelphia. Soon after Judi moved to the United States she herd about a mob harassing people. This brought tears to her eyes. This happened because it reminded her of what she had been through in the holocaust. She then got involved in the Civil Rights Movement. (The book doesn't say anything else about Abe or Mina.)

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