The name of the town in which Elie and his family lived in Transylvania.
What is Sighet?
100
The name of Elie's oldest sister.
Who is Hilda?
100
This a the term for "state sponsored systematic persecution of Jews by Nazi Germany from 1933-1945".
What is Holocaust?
100
This is (1) what Elie prevented the SS from extracting, and (2)WHO got it eventually.
What is gold crown and Franek?
100
extremely thin
What is emaciated?
200
Where the Jews were made to stay prior to being deported. There was a large one and a small one in their town.
What is the ghetto?
200
He helped Elie with his "mystical" studies (although his father told him not to bother with them).
Who is Moshe the Beadle?
200
This term refers to the "systematic and planned extermination of an entire national, racial, political, or ethnic group"?
What is genocide?
200
This is what Elie wanted to learn from his "teacher", but his father told him not to.
What is Kabbalah or Zohar?
200
a ceramic pot for melting metals at high temperatures
or
a severe trial or test
What is a crucible?
300
The name of the concentration camp where Elie was taken first.
What is Auschwitz-Birkenau?
300
He played Beethoven on his violin before he died.
Who is Juliek?
300
This term refers to a type of government characterized by strict social and economic control, as well as a strong central government usually headed by a dictator.
What is totalitarian?
300
What the men say/recite as they approach the burning ditch and crematorium. Akiba Drummer wanted this said for him.
What is Kaddish?
300
If you can see the future if can be said you have a...
What is premonition?
400
This was the camp where Elie worked in and electrical factory. It was also bombed during the air raid.
What is Buna?
400
He whipped Elie 25 times for having caught him with a girl.
Who is Idek the Kapo?
400
This term refers to ill-feelings or hatred toward Jews.
What is anti-Semitism?
400
This is how Elie "rebelled" against God during Yom Kippor.
What is he did not fast?
400
What is a word to describe you don't have an opinion on an issue?
What is indifferent?
500
the laws which stripped Jews of their citizenship
What are the Nuremberg laws?
500
HE was known as the "notorious", "Doctor Death". He conducted the selections and sent prisoners to the left or right.
Who is Dr. Mengele?
500
This term refers to an irrational hatred of a person, group, or race based upon a preconceived opinion or judgement.
What is prejudice?
500
This is the reason the soup "tasted like corpses" on one particular night.
What is the young boy or pipel was hanged and did not die right away?