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Events
Elie Wiesel
Themes
People
Vocab
100
The place where all Jews (including Elie and his family) were forced to live before being sent to concentration camps
What is the Ghetto?
100
He tutors Elie.
What is Moshe the Beadle?
100

We learn from history so that...

...we don't repeat it.

100
Elie manages to stay with him for the duration of their incarceration.
Who is Elie's father?
100

A place where large numbers of people, especially political prisoners or members of persecuted minorities, are deliberately imprisoned in a relatively small area with inadequate facilities, sometimes to provide forced labor or to await mass execution.

What is a concentration camp?

200
The largest and best known concentration camp where Elie and his family were first sent
What is Auschwitz?
200
The reason Elie is sent to the infirmary.
What is an infected foot?
200

Family can give us...

strength.

the will to survive.

200
His warnings are ignored near the beginning of the story.
Who is Moshe the Beadle?
200

Someone who sees something happen but does not get involved.

What is bystander?

300
The reason Elie is sent to the dentist
What is his gold crown?
300
Elie's religious realization on the eve of Rosh Hashanah.
What is lost his faith in God?
300

This instinct compels some of the prisoners to fight even their own family members for food and other resources.

What is survival?

300
He is the doctor of Auschwitz, famous for his ous "selections" and horrific experiments.
Who is Dr. Mengele?
300

Made thin due to starvation; wasted, puny, gaunt, haggard, scrawny

What is emaciated?

400
What Mrs. Schacter hallucinates.
What is a large fire?
400
The study of Jewish mysticism.
What is Cabbalah?
400

Wiesel's story shows we must fight against...

...indifference.

400
He is the cruel Kapo who whips Elie.
Who is Idek?
400

Acts committed to destroying an entire nation, race or ethnicity

What is genocide?

500
It happens to the sick prisoners who stay behind in the infirmary when the camp is evacuated.
What is liberated?
500
The number that was tattooed on Elie's arm.
What is A-7713?
500

Elie Wiesel's Night shows that it can diminish and even fail when faced with unspeakable horror and suffering.

faith

500
The violinist who plays one last concerto before dying.
Who is Juliek?
500

Hostility to or prejudice against Jews

What is antisemitism?