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Parallel Journeys Study Guide
Ch. 1
1.
Which groups were targeted for discrimination by the Nazis? Why?
2. How did the aftermath of WWI and the Treaty of Versailles affect Germany?
3. What freedoms were taken away in 1933 under Hitler’s new dictatorship?
4. How were Jewish students treated in Alfons Heck's class?
5. What did Heck find appealing about the Hitler Youth?
6. Choose a quotation from the chapter that struck a chord with you in some way. Record the
quotable quote here:
Ch. 2
1. Why did it take so long for Helen’s mother to agree to marry her father? Why is it ironic?
2. Why was it hard for Helen and Siegfried to get married? Where did they end up moving?
3. What were the effects of the Nuremberg Racial Laws?
4. Why was it hard for Jews to leave Germany?
5. How did Hitler make neutral, border countries nervous in 1937?
6. Record quotable quote here:
Chapter 3
1.
Why was Alfons able to join the Hitler Youth despite his father’s opposition?
2.
Compare the girls’ training in the Hitler Youth to the boys’ training.
3.
How did Alfons describe the feeling at the Nuremburg Party Congress, and other Nazi
rallies?
4.
How did Hitler take over Austria and Czechoslovakia?
5.
How was the “fate of the Jews beginning to look more bleak?” What new laws were
passed? Why do you think these laws didn’t dampen Hitler’s image in most people’s
minds?
6.
Who was Heinz and what was his significance to Alfons?
7.
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8.
Chapter 4
1.
Describe Kristallnact. How did it allegedly begin?
2.
How did German citizens react to it? How did Alfons and his uncle react to Kristallnact?
3.
How did Kristallnact affect Helen’s family?
4.
How was Helen’s family able to get to America? What is ironic about this? Why didn’t
more Jews go to America?
5.
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6.
Chapter 5
1.
What law was passed for Aryan children in 1939?
2.
What was the relationship between religion and the Hitler Youth?
3.
Describe Hitler’s third takeover.
4.
What were the first Allied countries against Germany? Why?
5.
What did Alfons’s grandmother tell him about France? How did she feel about
Hitler?
6.
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Chapter 6
1.
Describe how “the Nazi net ensnared Holland.”
2.
Why did Helen and Siegfried distance themselves from Doris?
3.
What prediction was Siegfried right about?
4.
What happened when Jews organized to fight against the Nazis?
5.
Who was Ab Reusink?
6.
What was Auschwitz?
7.
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Chapter 7
1.
What did Alfons think would happen to Heinz’s mom, Frau Ermann? What did his
grandmother think?
2.
What was the Final Solution? What did most Germans think it was?
3.
What blunders did Hitler commit with the military?
4.
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5.
Chapter 8
1.
Describe the “Night and Fog Decree.” Why was it called that?
2.
What two things was the fortune teller right about?
3.
What happened to Siegfried’s mom?
4.
What did FDR call December 7, 1941?
5.
Who was Adolf Eichmann, and what happened to him?
6.
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7.
Chapter 9
1.
Why was this a time of unparalleled glory for the Hitler Youth? How big was the
German empire?
2.
How did Alfons’s life change at age 14?
3.
Who was Hermann Goring?
4.
Describe how the Hitler Youth stepped up its military training after the defeats in North
Africa and the Soviet Union.
5.
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Chapter 10
1.
What did Siegfried do to buy more time?
2.
What was the Judenrat?
3.
What made Helen realize what was really happening to the Jews?
4.
Who were the Righteous Gentiles, and how did they help?
5.
What occurred on October 22, 1942?
6.
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Chapter 11
1.
How did the Allies’ air raids affect German schools?
2.
How did the German military fill the loss of so many German soldiers?
3.
How did life change for women, teens, and children?
4.
What happened to Alfons when he disobeyed an order?
5.
What made Rabbit cry?
6.
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7.
Chapter 12
1.
How did Mrs. Safir react to Helen’s news about Doris? What is your reaction?
2.
Describe the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
3.
What was hiding like for Helen and Siegfried? What was it like for the Righteous
Gentiles like Jo Vis?
4.
What was D-Day?
5.
Describe Helen and Siegfried’s train ride. What changed with Siegfried?
6.
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7.
Chapter 13
1.
What were Alfons’s new responsibilities? Describe how he acted with them and how he
felt about them.
2.
Describe the Gestapo.
3.
What did Colonel von Stauffenberg attempt? Why?
4.
What was Alfons’s impression of Hitler’s physical condition?
5.
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6.
Chapter 14
1.Who was Josef Mengele?
2.Who did Helen recognize in the camp from Amsterdam?
3.What was the Journey to Heaven?
4.What happened on October 7?
5.Why did day-to-day survival require courage? Give an example.
6.Why was it safe to be "invisible"?
7. Record quotable quote here:
Chapter 15
1. What was the People's Militia?
2. What haunted Hans Leiwitz?
3. What advice does Leiwitz give Heck?
4. What happened to Rabbit?
5. What happened in Dresden?
6. Whose deaths does Heck feel the strongest? Why?
8. Record quotable quote here:
Chapter 16
1.
What did Heinrich Himmler order on November 28, 1944?
2.
How did the SS try to conceal the atrocities of Auschwitz?
3.
Give an example of why fellow prisoners often posed more of a danger than Nazi guards.
4.
What survival habits continued for some prisoners even after they were liberated? Why?
5.
What rumors were the Kratzau prisoners worried about?
6.
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Chapter 17
1.
Why were the two soldiers hanged by the SS field police?
2. What did Monika say to Alfons when they realized it was over?
3. What did Aunt Tilly burn? Why?
4. What order was Alfons given by the American lieutenant? Why does he obey it?
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Chapter 18
1. Describe the end of the war.
2.
What became of Hitler?
3.
Describe Helen’s first hours of freedom.
4. Describe some of Helen and Becky’s experiences just days after liberation.
5. Give an example of Helen's determination to get home.
6. Record quotable quote here:
Chapter 19
1. Why weren't Nazis hunted immediately after the war?
2. What did Eisenhower order after seeing the Ohrdruf camp?
3. What English proverb reflected others' views of the Germans?
4. Why did Alfons think of the French guard as one of his true friends?
5. Record quotable quote here:
Chapter 20
1. Why was Jo Vis considered a true hero?
2. What was Doris's reaction to seeing her mother Helen again?
3. Besides the time apart, why were Holocaust surviving parents like strangers to their children
after the war?
4. Why did Helen need Doris so much at this time?
5. Why did Helen leave Holland?
6. Record quotable quote here:
Chapter 21
1. How was school different for Alfons after the war?
2. Why did Alfons go to Nuremberg?
3. Why was Nuremberg chosen for the trial?
4. Who was Baldur von Shirach? What was his sentence?
5. What happened to the bodies of the executed Nazis?
6. Why didn't the high ranking Hitler Youth have a clear conscience?
7. Record quotable quote here:
Chapter 22
1. Why did 100,000 Jews flee Eastern Europe in 1946?
2. Why was Helen fired from her first job in the US?
3. Why didn't Helen observe Yom Kippur any more?
4. What effect did returning to Kratzau have on Helen?
5. Record quotable quote here: