Vocabulary
to beat or hit
thrash
As the train approaches Auschwitz, everybody sees the chimneys of vast furnaces. There is a terrible, but undefined, odor in the air. What is that odor?
They soon discover is the odor of burning human flesh.
1.What are the prisoners made to do as they entered the barracks ?
strip naked
daily double-
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Once the men were separated from the women and children, the men then marched before Dr. Josef Mengele. What did he do? What was his purpose?
Mengele asked their age, health and profession, to sort out the young weak and useless
a group of vehicles traveling together
convoy
Why do the young Jewish men with knives not attack the SS?
The elders tell them it's futile and to just have faith in God to get them out of this mess.
What advice does the Polish prisoner in charge of their barrack give before they are allowed to lie down in a bunk?
To take care of each other, they'll need all their energy.
What is the most important goal for Elie as he enters the camp?
His main goal is to stay with his father.
As part of their medical examinations, prisoners were examined by a dentist. What was he looking for?
gold teeth
what is torment?
to cause physical pain
Packed into cattle cars, the Jews are tormented by nearly unbearable conditions. There is almost no air to breathe, the heat is intense, there is no room to sit, and everyone is hungry and thirsty. Madame Schächter, a middle-aged woman who is on the train with her ten-year-old son, soon cracks under the oppressive treatment to which the Jews are subjected. What did she do onn the third night?
She begins to scream that she sees a fire in the darkness outside the car
Who was Wiesel's master teacher in studying the Kabbalah
of Moishe the Beadle.
Immediately after the Jews were unloaded from the train, what do the German officers do?
They separate the men, children and women
After Several days Elie and his father were assigned to a
work detail, What were they suppose to do?
They had to sort electrical parts. Not very dangerous compared to the other jobs. menial and repetitive.
sealed against the entry or escape of air
heremetically
Moishe the Beadle was on the train with the deportees. Once in Polish territory, the Jews were ordered to get off and forced to dig their own graves. Gestapo shot their prisons one by one. What happened to the infants?
they were tossed into the air and used as targets for machine guns
Why was a prisoner shot during the air raid?
He tried to steal soup.
How many children total were in Wiesels family? For a extra 100-where did he fall in the order of children (ex-oldestest, youngest, fifth...ect.)
There were four of us children. Hilda, the eldest; then Bea; I was
the third and the only son; Tzipora was the youngest.
How did Elie avoid having his tooth pulled?
He said he was sick. The dentist was most likely a prisoner himself, and said that it was okay to come back within a week or so.
deportees
people who are expelled from a country
What happened to Elie one day at the factory?
Who cleaned the blood from Elie and soothed him with kind words?
He was beaten by Idek.
A french women.
After the Germans came into the town, they arrested the leaders of the Jewish community. What was the First edict: (first rule to be placed on the town)
Jews were prohibited from leaving their residences
for three days, under penalty of death.
Eliezer and his father remain together, separated from Eliezer’s mother and younger sister, whom he never sees again. What did they do or say to allow he and his father to stay together?
Eliezer and his father meet a prisoner, who counsels them to lie about their ages. Eliezer, not yet fifteen, is to say that he is eighteen, while his father, who is fifty, is to say that he is forty
The foreman got revenge on Elie and his father for not giving up his gold tooth by tormenting him for marching out of step. Elie try to stop the beatings by teaching his father how to march but the beatings did not stop. What did Elie finally do; what was the irony of what happened?
He gave up his gold crown, and was treated kindly by Franek afterward. When Franek transferred he was no longer able to reap the rewards of giving up the only thing of value that he possessed.