Vocab 1
To gather or collect
Muster
lack of interest or enthusiasm
apathy
Elie's younger sister who died in the gas chambers
Tzipora
Screamed about fire and flames on train
Mrs. Schacter
How does Elie and his father get to the first concentration camp?
train
Distrustful of human nature
cynical
magnificence, splendor
grandeur
Kapo who whips Elie for catching him with a girl
Idek
The Jews disbelieved his warnings of horrors ahead
Moishe the Beadle
What do Elie and his father lie about when they are first at the camp?
Their age
Severe poverty
penury
bizarre, weird, unreal
surreal
His son left him behind during the march
Rabbi Eliahou
Played his violin for prisoners until his death
Juliek
How did they kill large numbers of Jewish people at once?
In the gas chambers
The most worthless part of something
dregs
wise person, mentor
sage
Young innocent boy hanged in front of prisoners
The pipel
One of Elie's good friends at Buna
Yossi
What are the words that are repeated in a famous part of the novel?
Never shall I forget
abnormally think and weak
emaciated
to beg desparately
implore
Hanged for collecting gold teeth for his own profit
the dentist
Tortures Elie's father to get Elie's gold crown
Franek
What one word could describe how Elie looked when he first looked in the mirror at the end of the novel?
death