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Elie Wiesel
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People
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
The country Elie Wiesel was born in. 

What is Sighet, Romania?

100

The religion Elie Wiesel identifies with. 

What is being Jewish? 

100

Specific group of people targeted and persecuted by Adolph Hitler and the Nazis. 

Who were the Jews? 

200
The largest and best known concentration camp where Elie and his family were first sent
What is Auschwitz?
200

He tutors Elie.

What is Moshe the Beadle?

200
This necessity of life tes the thoughts of most prisoners and their bellies.
What is food?
200

Elie manages to stay with him for the duration of their imprisonment in the concentration camps. 

Who is Elie's father?

300

Double Jeopardy: 

The reason Elie is sent to the dentist

What is his gold crown?

300

Family members that Elie loses to the cremetoria when they arrive in Buna/Auschwitz. 

Who are his mother and younger sister, Tzapora? 

300
This instinct compels some of the prisoners to fight even their own family members for food and other resources.
What is survival?
300
His warnings are ignored near the beginning of the story.
Who is Moshe the Beadle?
400
What Mrs. Schacter hallucinates.
What is a large fire?
400

The way prisoners were identified in the concentration camps. 

What is a numbered tattoo? 

400
It can help people through difficult times.
What is faith?
400

He is the doctor of Auschwitz, famous for his  "selections" and horrific experiments.

Who is Dr. Mengele?

500

The process all prisoners must go through when entering the concentration camps. 

What is the "Selection Process"? 

500

The study of Jewish mysticism.

What is Kabbalah?

500

Double Jeopardy!
During the Gallows scene, Elie compares two things when he says: "two lambs with a hundred wolves laying in wait for them."

Lambs= cauldrons of soup

Wolves= the hungry prisoners 

500
He is the cruel Kapo who whips Elie.
Who is Idek?