Events
The place where all Jews (including Elie and his family) were forced to live before being sent to concentration camps
What is the Ghetto?
He tutors Elie.
What is Moshe the Beadle?
Elie's father is beaten for working too slowly.
What is inhumanity?
Elie manages to stay with him for the duration of their incarceration.
Who is Elie's father?
To destroy completely
What is annihilate?
The largest and best known concentration camp where Elie and his family were first sent
What is Auschwitz?
The reason Elie is sent to the infirmary.
What is an infected foot?
Elie's thoughts as he watches babies and young children being thrown into the fire demonstrate this theme.
What is having and losing faith?
His warnings are ignored near the beginning of the story.
Who is Moshe the Beadle?
An extensive fire
What is a conflagration?
The reason Elie is sent to the dentist
What is his gold crown?
Elie's religious realization on the eve of Rosh Hashanah.
What is lost his faith in God?
An example of this would be prisoners being forced to run through the snow without stopping or receiving food or water.
What is inhumanity?
These two are Zionists, which is a branch of Judaism.
Who are Tibi and Yosi?
Extreme hunger
What is famished?
What Mrs. Schacter hallucinates.
What is a large fire?
The study of Jewish mysticism.
What is Kabbalah?
People who lost this almost immediately died.
What is faith?
He is the cruel Kapo who whips Elie.
Who is Idek?
An official order
What is edict?
It happens to the sick prisoners who stay behind in the infirmary when the camp is evacuated.
What is liberated?
This theme was tested during the tragic event caused by workers tossing bread into the cattle cars
What is Fathers and Sons?
The violinist who plays one last concerto before dying.
Who is Juliek?
The systematic and planned extermination of an entire national, racial, political, or ethnic group?
What is genocide?