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REfugee

Historical Investigation of Each Protagonist

Refugee by Alan Gratz


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

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