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 World War I Europe. in World War II Europe. in World War I United States. in World War II United States.

Answer 1

in World War II Europe.

The title of the passage is "Rena's Promise: Two Sisters in Auschwitz". Auschwitz was a concentration camp during World War II. It was built for the sole purpose of imprisoning and killing Jewish people as well as any others that the Nazi party deemed as unsuitable. It is clear in the passage the father is trying to save his family from being captured and sent to the concentration camps. This was only a concern for people living in Europe, not the United States.