Family and Friends
Locations
Key Moments
Religion
Other
100
Who was Moishe the Beadle?
Eliezer's teacher of Jewish mysticism, Moishe is a poor Jew who lives in Sighet. He is deported before the rest of the Sighet Jews but escapes and returns to tell the town what the Nazis are doing to the Jews.
100
Little town in Transylvania where Elie and his family live before they are deported to the concentration camps.
Sighet
100
What happens to the Jews when they first arrive at the concentration camp?
They heads are shaved and stripped of their clothes.
100
A decree comes from the Germans that all Jews wear this identifying symbol. Elie's father's response to the decree is that at least no one dies of it.
Yellow/Jewish Star
100
Transportation that the Germans use to locate the Jews to the concentration camps.
cattle trains
200
Name of Elie Wiesel mother
Sarah
200
jewish settlements set up by the Germans. Two ghettos are created in Sighet before the Jews are deported to the concentration camps
Ghettos
200
What is Elie's gold crown removed with?
A rusty spoon
200
A prayer for the dead. Akiba Drummer asks fellow prisoners to recite the Kaddish after his death.
Kaddish
200
The fiery furnace where many Jews are sent to their deaths
Crematory
300
Names of Elie Wiesel's Sisters
Hilda, Beatrice, Tzipora
300
The first concentration camp to which the Jews of Sighet are taken. Elie and his father spend three weeks there before being relocated to Buna.
Auschwitz
300
Number Given to Elie when arriving at the concentration camp
A - 7713
300
Jewish mystical writings that emphasize the significance of numbers, among other things. Elie studies the cabbala under Moshe the Beadle.
Cabbala
300
How does Elie Wiesel's father die?
a blow to the head from a truncheon and died of the injuries
400
Angel of Death, preformed brutal surgeries at Auschwitz
Dr. Mengele
400
The reception center for Auschwitz. Elie and his father are separated from the female members of the family. Elie's mother and youngest sister are exterminated at Birkenau.
Birkenau
400
What happens to Elie's foot in the winter?
It swells and he can not walk on it.
400
Jewish religious text. Elie is devoted to its studies before his internment.
Talmud
400
What are the guards at the concentration camps called?
SS
500
Fifty Year old woman who kept seeing visions of flames on the train
Madame Schächter
500
The concentration camp where Elie's father dies. A Jewish resistance takes control of the camp
Buchenwald
500
Who approaches Buna which causes all the Nazis and Jews to evacuate?
Russians
500
a movement favoring the establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine, considered the holy land
Zionism
500
How old did Elie and his father lie to be so that they were not killed immediately?
18 and 40