Characters
Vocabulary
Locations
Elie
Challenge
100
He plays the violin for a barraks full of dead or dying men.
Who is Juliek
100
A section of a city, typically occupied by a specific ethnic population.
What is a ghetto?
100
This Transylvanian city is Elie's hometown.
What is Sighet?
100
This is how Elie avoids selection in the Buna camp.
What is running very fast?
100
This is the new name given to Elie in the camps.
What is A 7713?
200
This character warns the Jews of Sighet, but no one listens.
Who is Moshe the Beadle
200
What is an ancient Jewish mystical tradition?
What is Cabbala
200
This concentration camp, the first one Elie goes to, has Arbeit Mach Frie written on the gate, translating to Works Makes You Free.
What is Auchwitz?
200
Elie's swollen foot causes his to have this.
What is surgery.
200
This is the military group that liberated Buchenwald.
What is the American Army?
300
Elie prays that he will never do what the son of this character has done.
Who is Rabbi Elaihou
300
A religious book explaining Jewish law and tradtion
What is the Talmud
300
This camp is where Elie and Chlomo spend most of their concentration life. They work at an electronics warehouse, and are in the orchestra block.
What is Buna?
300
Elie pretends to be sick to avoid losing this object.
What is his gold crown/tooth.
300
When he calls for the cleaning of the block before evaucation in Buna, this is what the head of the block wants the liberators to know
What is men lived here, not pigs?
400
This big and strong man, who helps Elie's father stop a strangler, is finally reduced to nothing while in the cattle cars on the way to Buchenwald.
Who is Meir Katz
400
A Jewish festival that commemorates the exodus of the Jews from Egypt
What is Passover
400
At this camp Elie runs into the opposite line when his father is selected for death, causing other deaths, but their survival.
What is Gleiwitz?
400
This is how Elie describes his appearance at the end of the book.
What is a corpse?
400
This is Elie's father's excuse for not selling out and going to Palestine before the Germans arrive in Sighet.
What is his age?
500
This character forsahdows the burning creamatories while in the cattle cars on the way to Auchwitz
Who is Madam Schachter
500
Spiritual truth believed to go beyond ordinary understanding by uniting the soul with Gold
What is mysticism
500
This is the last camp where Elie's father tragically dies.
What is Buchenwald?
500
This is the only thing Elie focuses on after his father dies.
What is food?
500
This tragic medical ailment is what finally kills Elie's father.
What is Dysentery?
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