the type or category of story

to make someone feel better when they are upset

looking at a past event of a character

goods of value taken in war or protest in violence

to send out of the country by legal manner

Daniel feels the need to look at his pictures to help him remember the good times with his family

Peter was supposedly taken away to Dachau for pleading guilty six years earlier to two parking violations. The real reason was simply that he was Jewish.

small harmful or objectionable animals (such as lice or fleas)

the moral or lesson of a story

to break up or scatter

everyone was body-searched and separated from anything of value they might have tried to take along. Anyone who protested was beaten.

a long story with chapters and multiple settings- cannot be read in one sitting

Uncle Walter said the family should leave, while Father argued that Germany was their country.