Question

Read the excerpt from Rena Kornreich Gelissen’s Rena's Promise: Two Sisters in Auschwitz. That night changed everything. It had become dangerous for me to live in Tylicz. . . . Papa deliberated long and hard over whom to contact about smuggling me across the border. Andrzej had been fighting the Germans when Poland had first been invaded, but he’d been fortunate enough to escape capture; returning secretly to Tylicz, he was now working for the Polish resistance.

The details of the passage indicate that the narrative takes place in
A. World War I Europe.
B. in World War II Europe.
C. in World War I United States.
D. in World War II United States.

Answer 1

B. In world war two europe

Answer 2

The correct answer is B.

This excerpt from Rena Kornreich Gelissen’s "Rena's Promise: Two Sisters in Auschwitz" takes places in Europe during World War II.

Rena Kornreich was a Polish-born jew. She fled Tylicz, the city were she was raised and hid in Slovakia. But in order to protect the people who were hiding her, she turned herself in to the Nazi authorities and was sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp in Germany.

She was deported in 1942, right in the middle of World War II, and was a part of the first transport of Jewish women into the concentration camp.