Resistance

Part 1, Chapters 1-11

Reading Check

1. A five-month-old baby (Chapter 4)

2. Akiva (Chapter 3)

3. Esther Karolinski (Chapter 7)

Short Answer

1. Chaya is separated from her family upon their relocation to Podgorze Ghetto, as her name appears on a list of Jews who are ordered to evacuate the city. (Chapter 2)

2.  Chaya’s work as a courier involves smuggling supplies into the ghettos and sometimes smuggling people out. (Chapters 1, 3, and 4)

Part 2, Chapters 12-20

Reading Check

1. Attempt to start a new resistance group in Lodz (Chapter 12)

2. A young mother (Chapter 13)

3.  A person who builds his career on blackmailing Jews caught outside the ghettos (Chapter 15)

Short Answer

1. The women are starving and attack Esther to try to get their hands on the potatoes in her bag. (Chapter 16)

2. They refuse to fight the Nazis in accordance with their belief in God’s law prohibiting murder. (Chapter 17)

Part 2, Chapters 21-30

Reading Check

1. Inside an abandoned German tank (Chapter 23)

2. Because she tells them that she has typhus (Chapter 26)

3. Rubin (Chapter 30)

Short Answer

1. Wit saves them from the suspicious woman selling eggs, offers to shelter them, and points them in a safe direction, giving them money and food for the journey. Though he is not Jewish, he does what he can to support Jewish resistance to the Nazis. (Chapter 22)

2.  The partisans believe that fighting the Nazis from within the ghetto is a lost cause. (Chapter 30)

Part 3, Chapters 31-39

Reading Check

1. Her younger brother, Yitzchak (Chapter 33)

2. Digging bunkers (Chapter 32)

3. April 19, 1943 (Chapter 36)

Short Answer

1. People distrust Esther because her father was a Judenrat and compiled deportation lists for the Nazis. (Chapter 33)

2. Esther feels that the Germans cannot control them anymore, as the fighters have lost their fear of death. (Chapter 39)

Part 3, Chapters 40-49

Reading Check

1. A Judenrat sent in by the Nazis (Chapter 40)

2. The Polish Underground Army (Chapter 44)

3. They join Rubin and the partisans to continue fighting (Chapter 49)

Short Answer

1. It is the first time that the Allies acknowledge the situation that the Jews are in, and they call the fighters inside the Warsaw Ghetto “heroes.” (Chapter 42)

2. Chaya recognizes that Mr. Pilzer could have prioritized his own escape but instead sacrifices himself to allow the others a chance to live. (Chapter 48)