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100

Who was Moishe the Beadle?

Eliezer's teacher of Jewish mysticism, Moishe is a poor Jew who lives in Sighet. He is deported before the rest of the Sighet Jews but escapes and returns to tell the town what the Nazis are doing to the Jews.

100

Little town in Transylvania where Elie and his family live before they are deported to the concentration camps.

Sighet

100

What happens to the Jews when they first arrive at the concentration camp?

They heads are shaved and stripped of their clothes. 

100

A decree comes from the Germans that all Jews wear this identifying symbol. Elie's father's response to the decree is that at least no one dies of it.

Yellow/Jewish Star

100

Transportation that the Germans use to locate the Jews to the concentration camps.

cattle trains

200

Name of Elie Wiesel mother

Sarah

200

jewish settlements set up by the Germans. Two ghettos are created in Sighet before the Jews are deported to the concentration camps

Ghettos

200

What is Elie's gold crown removed with?

A rusty spoon

200

A prayer for the dead. Akiba Drummer asks fellow prisoners to recite the Kaddish after his death.

Kaddish

200

The fiery furnace where many Jews are sent to their deaths

Crematory

300

Names of Elie Wiesel's Sisters

Hilda, Beatrice, Tzipora

300

 The first concentration camp to which the Jews of Sighet are taken. Elie and his father spend three weeks there before being relocated to Buna.

Auschwitz

300

Number Given to Elie when arriving at the concentration camp

A - 7713
300

Jewish mystical writings that emphasize the significance of numbers, among other things. Elie studies the cabbala under Moshe the Beadle.

Cabbala

300

How does Elie Wiesel's father die? 

a blow to the head from a truncheon and died of the injuries

400

Angel of Death, preformed brutal surgeries at Auschwitz 

Dr. Mengele

400

The reception center for Auschwitz. Elie and his father are separated from the female members of the family. Elie's mother and youngest sister are exterminated at Birkenau.

Birkenau

400

What happens to Elie's foot in the winter? 

It swells and he can not walk on it.

400

Jewish religious text. Elie is devoted to its studies before his internment.

Talmud

400

What are the guards at the concentration camps called?

SS

500

Fifty Year old woman who kept seeing visions of flames on the train

Madame Schächter

500

The concentration camp where Elie's father dies. A Jewish resistance takes control of the camp

Buchenwald

500
Who approaches Buna which causes all the Nazis and Jews to evacuate?

Russians

500

a movement favoring the establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine, considered the holy land

Zionism

500

How old did Elie and his father lie to be so that they were not killed immediately?

18 and 40

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