... from a bush, surrendering to armed Germans. Billy slips back into 1967. He is driving on his way to a Lions Club luncheon through Ilium's black ghetto, still smoldering from recent riots, and then through a section gutted for urban renewal. The urban destruction he sees outside the car reminds him of the ... to roll toward the interior, Billy travels to the night he is kidnapped by the Tralfamadorians. Chapter four begins on the night of his daughter's wedding day. Billy Pilgrim cannot sleep because he has traveled in time already; he knows he will be kidnapped by the Tralfamadorians' fl...

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• Grade Level: High School

... an eye-witness of a mass-gassing that occured on March 13, 1943: That same night, 1,492 women, children, and old people, selected from a convoy of 2,000 Jews from the Krakow ghetto, were killed in the new crematorium. Six kilos of Zyklon B were poured into the stacks that opened into the four grillework columns implanted between the pillars that supported the ceiling ... the new Krema II gas chamber], the Sonderkommandos wore gas masks as a precaution. The bodies were untangled and dragged to the goods elevator. Hair was clipped, gold teeth pulled out, wedding rings and jewels removed (...

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• Grade Level: High School

... an eye-witness of a mass-gassing that occured on March 13, 1943: That same night, 1,492 women, children, and old people, selected from a convoy of 2,000 Jews from the Krakow ghetto, were killed in the new crematorium. Six kilos of Zyklon B were poured into the stacks that opened into the four grillework columns implanted between the pillars that supported the ceiling ... the new Krema II gas chamber], the Sonderkommandos wore gas masks as a precaution. The bodies were untangled and dragged to the goods elevator. Hair was clipped, gold teeth pulled out, wedding rings and jewels removed (...

• Word Count: 1274
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School