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Q.1 what was the logic behind the gentiles who asked for chanja Finkelsztjains world goods( and similar anecdotes)

They were asking for the goods so as to meet their desires and needs. They believed that the goods were valuable.

Q.2 how does the author regard the plundering of the Jews?

The author regards the plundering of Jews as a motive of poles to lure gain and enrich themselves with the Jewish gold. The plundering of the Jews was a social practice but not a criminal practice to the polish society.

Q.3 Why did so many Jews leave valuables with poles?

Many Jews leave valuables with poles because they believed that their polish neighbors will keep the valuables safe.

Q.4 what were Jew hunts? Why are they significant?

The Jews hunts were the searching of Jews in the polish ghettos who had escaped ghettoization or liquidation of the ghettos by hiding in the area around the Poway. And it was significant so as to acquire the valuables that they had. They were to be deported to the death camp.

Q.5 what is schmaltzowayne?

Schmatlzowayne is the harvesting of slaves.

Q.6 what is the difference between the rescuer and someone who rents a room to Jews?

The rescuer is the person who pretends to save the Jews from the murder but turn against him or her and take all the valuable from him while the person who rent a room to the Jews so as to exploit them by charging him high amount of rent.

Q.7 what was the punishment for polish rescuers or those who rented rooms for profits?

The polish rescuers or those who rented rooms for profit for the Jews were denounced by their own citizens to the German authorities.

Q.8 what does the case Baruch Elbinger reveals?

The case revealed that the Jews were mistreated and they were killed by the Germans and they were killed so as the German and the polish society will be able to acquire valuables from them.

Q9 Explain the role that envy played among the poles

Envy played the role of denouncing other neighbors because they were jealous to their neighbors who had kept the Jews who were looking for shelter and food. They felt that the neighbors who kept the Jews were acquiring wealth from the Jews.

Q.10 what was Jozef Gorsik feeling towards the Jews?

Jozef Gorski was torn about his reaction towards the Jews because he was compassionate as a result of his Christianity and he was also happy because the Jews were being eliminated from their land as internal occupier.

Q.11 what was the polish feeling towards Jews after the war?

The polish had a feeling of not being guilty and they deny the polish responsibility to the Jewish killings.

Q.12 Describe the scene at Jedwabne

The scene at Jedwabne was terrible because a few dozen poles killed a minimum of 340 of their Jewish neighbors. Many of the Jews were burned alive in a barn.

Q.13 what was the role of the Catholic Church?

The Catholic Church played the role of pushing for the persecution of the Jews as they viewed them as a threat to the religion.

Q. 14 describe the incident from page 115- 116

There is hunting of Jews by the Germans with the help of the polish society.

Q.15 what does Yehuda Bauer mean by our moral problem with the holocaust is that the perpetrators were inhuman but that they were just like ourselves.

Yehuda means that the individuals who took part in the holocaust treated the Jews in inhuman way by killing them not considering the fact that the Jews were human beings just like them.