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Who is the narrator of the story?
Elie Weisel
100
The year the first concentration camp opened.
1933
100
This is where the story begins in Transylvania.
Sighet
100
The place where all of the bodies are burned at a concentration camp.
creamatoria
100
The style of story told from first person point of view and represents a single individuals memories about a specific time in his or her life.
Memoir
200
Who is the little girl in a red coat holding her mother's hand, and who is sent to the gas chamber immediately.
Tzipora
200
Who are the Axis Powers?
Germany, Japan, Italy
200
The second prophet on the train who sees the fires of Auschwitz before Elie and his family arrive there.
Mrs. Schacter
200
The English word used to describe the genocide of the Jewish race during WWII.
Holocaust
200
The figure Elie blames for the Holocaust.
God
300
The dictator of Germany who wanted to destroy the Jewish race.
Hitler
300
The final camp Elie is a kept imprisoned at.
Buchenwald
300
The instrument Juliek plays his final night at Glweiwitz before he dies.
Violin
300
The German term for gathering place at a camp.
Appleplatz
300
The branch of Judaism Elie wishes to study when he is 13, but his father says no.
Kabala
400
Is rather unsentimental and spends more time with the Jewish council at the beginning of the memoir.
Shlomo Weisel
400
The fascist Italian dictator who wanted to create the new Roman Empire.
Benito Mussolini
400
The final words spoken by a young man who survived three years in a camp. His death gives the prisoners hope.
Long Live Liberty My Curse on Germany
400
The term given to the young children who would help the Kappos and block leaders.
pipel
400
The term given to a novel that is the opposite of a coming of age novel.
Anti-Coming of Age or anti-bildungsroman
500
Has fits of madness and beats the inmates for no apparent reason.
Idek
500
The date Germany invades Poland thus starting WWII.
September 1, 1939
500
The manner in which Elie becomes like the Rabbi Eliahu's son.
Does not go to his father when he is called.
500
The Hebrew term for the Holocaust.
Shoah
500
The fact of life that the Germans make a mockery of.
Death