Early Days
He warned people to escape from the Nazis.
Who is Moishe the Beadle?
A disease causing severe diarrhea and weakness.
Dysentery
18 years old and 40 years old.
How old did Elie and his father say they were when they first came to camp?
Elie questions whether he should observe this Jewish holy day because he is already starving and suffering.
What is Yom Kippur?
These people were coming to liberate the Jew from camp.
Who are the Russians, Americans, and or resistance fighters?
Elie's home town.
What is Sighet?
The act of fighting back or opposing control.
Resistance
The job Elie was initially assigned in his first camp.
What is a warehouse sorter?
What are snowy and freezing.
Who is Elie's father?
Elie wanted to study this religious subject.
What is Kabbalah?
Lack of concern or care.
Indifference
These two characters were separated from Elie and his father as soon as they arrived at the first camp.
What happened to Elie's mother and sisters?
This is what the prisoners did when given small chunks of bread by German townspeople.
What is fight for crumbs?
This advice was given to Elie by other prisoners when his father was dying.
What is keep his father's rations for himself.
These people treated to Jews politely and did not seem like a threat.
Who were the German Nazis?
The act of fighting back against control, oppression, or injustice.
Resistance
This woman screams of flames and fire.
Who is Madam Schacter?
The problem with Elie's foot.
What is an infection?
Elie felt mixed relief and guilt when this happened.
What is Elie's father dying?
15 years old
How old was Elie when the German occupation started?
The Jewish Day of Atonement, a holy fast day.
Yom Kippur
The process by which Jews were decided to live or die.
What is selection?
What is the violin?
The first thing the freed prisoners do after being liberated from the camps.
What is seek food and water.