Characters
The Jews disbelieved his warnings of horrors ahead
Moishe the Beadle
Innocent child hanged in front of prisoners
The pipel
How does Elie's faith change over the course of the book?
Very religious in the beginning -- loses his faith throughout the book
Elie's hometown
Sighet, Romania/Transylvania
"Annihilate an entire people? Wipe out a population dispersed throughout so many nations? So many millions of people! By what means? In the middle of the twentieth century!" Explain the irony of this quote.
That's EXACTLY what happened.
“Selected” prisoners for life or death
Dr. Josef Mengele
Comforted Elie when he was beaten; met years later
The French woman at the factory
How does Elie and his father's relationship change throughout the book?
They become inseparable in the camp; each other's reason to live
A separate part of the city where conditions are bad and Jews are isolated
Ghetto
List three ways in which the Nazis dehumanized their victims.
Ghettos, shaved heads, prison clothes, took all their belongings, #'s instead of names, starved & beat them, experimented on them, openly murdered them
Screamed about fire and flames on train
Mrs. Schacter
Played Beethoven on the violin before he died
Juliek
Why is it ironic when Shlomo gives Elie a knife and a spoon and Elie says, "My inheritance."
The first camp that Elie & his father arrive at. Mengele is there.
Auschwitz - Birkenau
What is the sonderkommando?
Those prisoners who worked in the crematorium
Kapo who whips Elie for catching him with a girl
Idek
Hanged for collecting gold teeth for his own profit
The dentist
What theme or message do you think the author was communicating with this book?
Documenting the cruelty of man / The importance of keeping memory alive
Name of the camp where Elie and his father work in the electrical parts factory
Buna
Give me two reasons why Elie describes himself as a "corpse" in the end of the book.
The way he looks physically, death of the person that he was, death of all he holds dear (God, family)
Tortured Elie's father to get Elie's gold crown
Franek
His son left him during the march towards the end of the story
Rabbi Eliahou
What are some deeper meanings of "night" in this book?
Loss of faith, Living with evil & atrocities, unimaginable suffering
Name of the camp where Elie is liberated from
Buchenwald
Name of the prayer for the dead
Kaddish