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Events
Elie Wiesel
Themes
People
The Perils of Indifference
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
Elie Wiesel's Night shows that it can diminish and even fail when faced with unspeakable horror and suffering.
What is faith?
100
Elie manages to stay with him for the duration of their incarceration.
Who is Elie's father?
100

What does Wiesel says is less dangerous than indifference?

What is anger?

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

This necessity of life; the thoughts of most prisoners and their bellies.

What is food?

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

The name of the boat carrying Jewish refugees that was turned away from American shores.

What is the St. Louis?

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

"When adults wage war, children perish" text structure.

What is cause and effect?

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

It can help people through difficult times, sometimes associated with religion.

What is faith?

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

Indifference is always a friend of the _______, for it benefits the __________.

What is enemy; agressor?

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
Many prisoners face this inner-conflict in their struggle to survive in such dehumanizing and horrible conditions.
What is civility vs. savagery.
500
The violinist who plays one last concerto before dying.
Who is Juliek?
500

Former president of the United States that has a complicated legacy with the Jewish community.

Who is Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR)?