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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What Polish prisoner insisted it was important that the group of six "Czech" prisoners survive?
2. Jewish Socialist Bund leader Szmul Zygielbojm escaped from where, after his wife and children were killed, before broadcasting the horrors of Jewish extermination as a witness on the BBC?
3. By what name did Stangl's wife often refer to him during conversations with the author?
4. What kind of passport did the Bishop give Stangl when helping him escape through Rome?
5. Who took photographs of an August 21st transport to Treblinka that were part of the evidence at the trial of the ten Treblinka guards in Dusseldorf?
Short Essay Questions
1. How did Otto Horn describe Gustav Munzberger's job at Treblinka?
2. Why was Stangl's wife shocked by Father Mario's response to her talk about her husband under confessional?
3. How did T4 psychiatrists view eastern Jews in relation to exterminating them?
4. How did Horst Munzberger try to help his father during his trial?
5. How did Stangl describe his arrival at Treblinka?
6. How did Rome figure in Stangl's escape to another country?
7. Who was Dr Dollmann?
8. How did Zabecki's wife deal with the cruelty of the human transports and escalating murders?
9. How did the author describe Richard Glazar and his family when she visited his home in 1972?
10. How did T4 psychiatrists view western Jews in relation to exterminating them?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Sereny observed that Stangl found working at the death camps emotionally and psychologically straining and unpleasant. Using details from the biography, provide several pages supporting this observation.
Essay Topic 2
Pope Pius XII was mostly silent on euthanasia and Jewish genocide by the Nazis. Why? Please cite personal and religious reasons. When he was no longer silent, what was the changing climate that he felt "safe" enough to issue statements of opposition for either form of genocide?
Essay Topic 3
Explain the similarities and differences between Extermination and Concentration camps for Jews. Discuss layouts, length of time before typically closing a site, daily operations, survival rates, workers, etc.
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