Major Themes
This theme is shown when Eliezer's identity is replaced by a number (A-7713) and his hair is shaved.
Dehumanization
The Jews of Sighet are first forced into these restricted areas before deportation.
Ghettos.
Foreshadowing.
He teaches Eliezer the Kabbalah and is the first to warn Sighet of the danger.
Moishe the Beadle.
The town in Transylvania where Eliezer's story begins.
Sighet.
Eliezer struggles with this throughout the memoir, eventually wondering if God is silent or dead.
Faith (Loss of Faith).
This is the name of the process where prisoners are sorted into those who will work and those who will die.
Selection.
"Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night..." - Name the literary device.
Metaphor / Motif
The violinist who plays Beethoven in the dark before he dies.
Juliek.
The firts camp Eliezer arrives at, where he sees the crematoriums.
Birkenau (Auschwitz).
This theme describes how prisoners, including Eliezer at times, focus only on their own needs to stay alive.
Survival / Self-Preservation
Eliezer loses his golden crown (tooth) to a fellow prisoner using this rusty tool.
"The world had become a hermetically sealed cattle car." - Identify this literary device.
Metaphor.
The cruel Kapo who beats Eliezer and his father in the electrical warehouse.
Idek.
The camp where Eliezer and his father spend the most time working in a warehouse.
Buna.
Eliezer's transformation from a religious boy in Sighet to a 'corpse' in the mirror is an example of this theme.
Loss of Innocence.
The name of the brutal 42-mile journey in the snow as the Red Army approached.
The Death March.
"Physically, he was as awkward as a clown." - This description of Moishe the Beadle uses which literary device?
Simile.
The man who loses his faith and forget h=to have the Kaddish said for him, after he dies.
Akiba Drumer.
The camp Eliezer is moved to at the very end, where his father passes away.
Buchenwald.
The SS< Kapos, and even the 'selection' process represent this theme over the prisoners' lives.
Power and Control.
The specific event that causes the prisoners to fine the soup 'tasing of corpses.'
The hanging of the Pipel.
"O've got more faith in Hitler than anyone else. He's the only one who's kept his promises..." - This quote uses which literary device?
Irony.
The woman who comforts Eliezer in French after Idek beats him.
The French Girl.
The country that the Red Army was coming from.
Russia (Soviet Union).