Maus: The Noose Tightens

ladder a device used to reach higher places.

a Stew a slowly cooked dish

to manage to oversee something or someone

tighten our belts to cut expenses

cut the cards shuffling a deck of playing cards

customer a buyer

Tin Shop metal workshop

round-up gathering of people

shlepped to carry or drag something

gallstones solid particles that form in the gallbladder

mention to bring up

vacated premises a place that has been abandoned

make an example to punish or discipline someone in a way that serves as a warning to others.

stroller baby carriage

to arrange to organize

carpentry the trade of working with wood

Theresienstadt a concentration camp during the Holocaust, located in the town of Terezín in German-occupied Czechoslovakia.

a bunker a shelter, often used for protection during war

transfer move

advise suggest

able to capable of

feeling dizzy lightheaded

misery extreme suffering

excrement poop

vaguely unclearly

stationery writing materials

a Zionist a supporter of the movement for the establishment and preservation of a Jewish homeland

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