Terms
Characters
Themes /Symbols
From the Story I
From the Story II
100
A type of prisoner who worked inside German concentration camps, and who were often given authority to police other prisoners
What is a "Kapo"?
100
The first name of Mr. Wiesel, Elie's father
Who is "Chlomo"?
100
The theme that involves both Elie & Mr. Wiesel, and Rabbi Eliahou & his son
What is "The Importance of Father-Son Bonds?"
100
What both The Head-of-the-Camp, and The-Head-of-the-Tent were
What are "Pedaphiles"?
100
What Elie thought the Germans would do to him if he decided to remain in the hospital infirmary in Buna.
What is "kill him"?
200
Adolescent boys who were chosen to serve under Kapos
Who are "Pipel"?
200
The Kapo with a violent temper who beats Elie to intimidate him into not revealing his indiscretion with a young Polish girl
Who is "Idek"?
200
The theme that defines the feelings of abandonment experienced by Elie, Akiba Drumer, and many other prisoners who faced horrific treatment in the camps
What is "The Struggle to Maintain Faith in a Benevolent God"?
200
What the Head-of-the-Tent's pipel wanted from Elie
What are "his shoes"?
200
What happened to Juliek when the prisoners rushed into the barracks at Gleiwitz
What is "he was trampled to death"?
300
A sub-camp of Auschwitz where the Wiesels and other prisoners were forced to march, from the sub-camp of Buna
What is "Gleiwitz"?
300
A Jewish prisoner who gradually loses his faith, but who still requests that Elie and the others say the Kaddish for him after his death
Who is "Akiba Drumer"?
300
The theme that relates the almost universal reaction felt by normal people when hearing about the horrors of the Holocaust / Shoah
What is "Man's Inhumanity Towards Man"?
300
What happened to the prisoners who remained behind in the hospital infirmary two days after those at Buna were moved to Gleiwitz
What is "They were liberated by the Russians"?
300
The person Elie ran into in Paris after the war, and about whom he wrote in his flash-forward
Who is the "French woman"?
400
Jewish prayers -- for which the central theme is the magnification and sanctification of God's name -- that are performed as rituals of mourning, or the saying of prayers for the dead for friends and loved ones
What is "The Kaddish"?
400
Elie's Polish foreman at Buna who beat Mr. Wiesel to force Elie into giving up his gold crown.
Who is "Franek"?
400
The theme that expresses the perceived reaction of the German people as a whole, the victims, and of even by God himself to the treatment of the victims by the Nazis
What is "Silence"?
400
The reason Elie was called to the dentist
What is "To remove his gold crown"?
400
About whom Elie was speaking when he said, "(_BLANK_) had felt that his father was growing weak, he had believed that the end was near and had sought this separation in order to get rid of the burden, to free himself from an encumbrance which could lessen his own chances of survival (...) My God, Lord of the Universe, give me strength never to do what (_BLANK_) has done."
Who is "Rabbi Eliahou's son"?
500
A Jewish movement, that in response to antisemitism, had as it's primary aim the re-establishment of a Jewish homeland in Palestine, and which successfully led to the formation of the modern-day nation of Israel in 1948. Elie's friends, Tibi and Yosi, were members of this movement.
What is "Zionism", or the "Zionist Movement"?
500
Half of one of the three important Father-Son pairs in the story, and the father whose son who knowingly abandons him on the march to Gleiwitz.
Who is "Rabbi Eliahou"?
500
The recurring symbol that Wiesel uses to represent the darkness that results from a world without God
What is "Night"?
500
The "soft spot" Franek used to pressure Elie into giving up his tooth
What is "Elie's father"?
500
Who Elie reasoned was stronger than God
Who are "The Germans".
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