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 Moishe the Beadle?
Elie manages to stay with him for the duration of their incarceration.
Who is Elie's father?
To destroy completely
What is annihilate?
This necessity of life in the thoughts of most prisoners.
What is food?
His warnings are ignored near the beginning of the story.
Who is Moishe the Beadle?
When someone is very religious
What is pious?
He is the doctor of Auschwitz, famous for his "selections" and horrific experiments.
Who is Dr. Mengele?
Thin, wasted, puny, gaunt, haggard, scrawny
What is waiflike or wizened?
What Mrs. Schacter hallucinates.
What is a large fire or conflagration?
The study of Jewish mysticism.
What is Kabbalah?
How a prisoner might steal food
What is surreptitiously?
What Elie says to himself about the rabbi's son
What is, "I don't want to ever leave my father like that?" (paraphrased)
Many prisoners face this inner-conflict in their struggle to survive in such dehumanizing and horrible conditions. (this vs. that) multiple answers
What is civility vs. savagery. humanity vs. inhumanity. self-interest vs. love for others.
What is imprudent?