Plot Points
The reason Elie gets surgery on his foot.
What is a swollen foot due to cold weather?
Elie and his father are separated from his mother and sisters WHERE, marking the beginning of their struggle to survive alone.
What is their arrival at Auschwitz- Birkenau?
Elie’s deeply religious teacher and spiritual mentor
Who is Moise the Beatle?
The place where the Jews of Sighet were taken immediately after leaving their homes.
What is a ghetto?
“Jews, listen to me! That’s all I ask of you. No money. No pity. Just listen!
What did Moise the Beatle say?
The warning Moshe the Beadle gives when he returns from deportation.
What is Jews are being killed by Nazis?
The lie Elie tells to avoid being killed at Birkenau.
What is being 18 and a farmer?
Elie's family members who were murdered
What is Elie's mother, father, and little sister Tzipora?
This location in the camp is where Elie briefly "rests" but ultimately decides to leave due to fear of being killed during the evacuation.
What is an infirmary?
"For God’s sake, where is God?"
What does a fellow prisoner say when witnessing the pipel being hung?
The selection process at Birkenau
What is when Dr. Mengele decides who lives and who dies?
Elie feels this emotion towards his father during a brutal beating, which marks his internal struggle between survival and love.
What is guilt?
Who is Juliek?
This is where there was a bombing during the air raid
What is Buna?
WHAT said “Work is liberty.”
What did the gate of Auschwitz say?
The person who left his father during an evacuation/ march.
Who is Rabbi Eliahou's son?
Despite injured, Elie chooses to do this when the camp is being evacuated — a decision he later questions.
What is evacuate with the others to the death march instead of staying in the infirmary?
Elie’s gold crown is taken by force after this character notices it, showing how prisoners exploit each other for survival.
Who is Franek?
What is Buchenwald?
"Here, every man has to fight for himself and not think of anyone else... you're better off alone.”
What does the Blockalteste advise Elie?
This moment after liberation reveals the full extent of Elie’s emotional and physical transformation.
What is when he looks in the mirror and sees a corpse?
This is the reason the "soup tasted like corpses" that Night.
What is the young boy/ pipel was hung and did not die right away?
He was known as the "Doctor of Death"
Who is Dr. Mengele?
The three major camps Elie is taken to in order.
Auschwitz (Birkenau subcamp) → Buna → Buchenwald
"Don't let yourself be overcome by sleep, Eliezer. It's dangerous to fall asleep in snow" (88).
Who is Elie's father / Shlomo Wiesel