| A | B |
|---|
| Yolen | Author |
| Clothes Basket | Where Aaron hid the afikoman |
| Fayge | Shmuel's fiance' |
| Holocaust | Mass destruction of European Jews |
| Passover | Annual Jewish feast |
| Chosen | Those taken to the fire |
| Cauldrons | Huge soup kettles |
| Chanukah | Eight day Jewish festival held in December |
| Aunt Eva | Chaya's friend Rivka |
| Shorn | Done to Jews' hair |
| Midden | Garbage pile where children hid |
| New Rochelle | Hannah Stern's home town |
| Four | Days spent in the boxcars |
| Zugangi | Newcomers |
| Healthy | Made to work hard at the camp |
| Swallows | Sang around the smokestack |
| Reb Boruch | Fayge's Rabbi father |
| Sky | God's Canopy |
| Kosher | Permitted according to Jewish law |
| Arithmetic | One plus one; each day alive |
