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The place where all Jews were forced to live before being sent to concentration camps.
What is the ghetto?
He tutors Elie.
Who is Moishe the Beadle?
Elie is often angry at God for this.
What is His silence?
Elie manages to stay with him for the duration of their incarceration.
Who is Elie’s father?
To destroy completely.
What is annihilate?
The largest and best known concentration camp (also the first camp Elie was sent to).
What is Auschwitz?
The reason Elie is sent to the infirmary.
What is an infected foot?
This necessity of life dominates the thoughts of most prisoners.
What is food?
His warnings are ignored near the beginning of the story.
Who is Moishe the Beadle?
Strict isolation to prevent the spread of disease.
What is quarantine?
The reason Elie is sent to the dentist.
What is his gold crown?
Elie’s realization on the eve of Rosh Hashanah
What is lost his faith in God?
This instinct compels some of the prisoners to fight even their own family members for food and other resources.
What is survival?
He is the doctor of Auschwitz, famous for his murderous “selections” and horrific experiments.
Who is Dr. Mengele?
an empty space
What is void?
What Mrs. Schacter hallucinates.
What is a large fire?
The study of Jewish mysticism
What is Kabbalah?
It can help people through difficult times.
What is faith?
He is the cruel Kapo who whips Elie.
Who is Idek?
An infection of the intestine with bacteria or amoebae, marked chiefly by severe diarrhea with the passage of mucus and blood.
What is dysentery?
It happens to the sick prisoners who stay behind in the infirmary when the camp is evacuated.
What is liberated?
The number that was tattoed on Elie’s arm.
What is A-7713?
Many prisoners face this inner-conflict in their struggle to survive in such dehumanizing and horrible conditions.
What is civility vs. savagery.
The violinist who plays one last concerto before dying
Who is Juliek?
(Of a situation or course of action) filled with or likely to result in (something undesirable).
What is fraught?