Historical Investigation of Each Protagonist

Refugee by Alan Gratz

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JOSEF
Berlin, Germany 1938

ISABEL
​Havana, Cuba 1994

​MAHMOUD
​Aleppo, Syria 2015

1. Adolf Hitler, Führer, 3
2. Kristallnacht, 5

        3. Dachau, 6
       4. MS St. Louis, 36

• Captain Gustav Schroeder, 76
• Petty Officer Jockl, 96
• Otto Schiendick, 97
• ​Locate Belgium, Holland, France, England, Germany,Switzerland 270

Jewish terms to be defined from the text. (Identify pg no.)

• ​bar mitzvah, 57
• synagogue, 74
• minyan, 75
• yarmulke
• tallisim
• Torah scroll

Nazi terms to be defined from the text. (Identify pg no.)

• Brown Shirts, 3
• swastika
• Storm Troopers
• Civil Service Restoration Act of 1933
• concentration camp, 4
• Star of David, 18
• red Nazi armband of Hitler Youth, 23
• Gestapo, 34
• Nuremberg Laws, 76
• "The Horst Wessel Song" 96
• Third Reich, 115

Other Key terms or references:
​SS Orduna, (English) 147
SS Flandre, (French) 148
​Cuban President Bru, 219

     1. Communist Cuba, 8
     2. Collapse of the Soviet Union
     3. Fidel Castro, 9

1. Batista, 100
2. el norte, 10
3. ration booklets, 10
4. clave, 11
5. ​"Wet Foot, Dry Foot" 41
6. mañana
7. ​Guantanamo, 259

Other Key terms or references:

• ​"Journey is a song" 155, 259, 308
• "Fight against the impossible and win"
• ​Officer Mariano Padron,198

1. Aleppo, 14
2. Bashar al-Assad, 14
3. Muslim, Shia vs. Sunni, 16
4. Daesh (or ISIS), 66

• Locate Middle East, Syria, Tunisia, Libya, Yemen, Iran, Turkey, Palestine, Greece, Macedonia, Hungary, Austria, Serbia, European Union
• Religious terms:
  • Adhan, 30
  • mosque
  • Allah
  • Allahu Akbar, 31
  • Mecca
  • Qur'an
  • hijab, 66
  • al-Qaeda, 69
  • ​Kurds, 70
  • ​Arab-Isreali War, 121​

Use google maps to find the distance: (After page 55)

• Berlin, Germany to Havana, Cuba
• Havana, Cuba to Miami, Fl
• Aleppo, Syria to Berlin, Germany