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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 Moishe 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
To destroy completely
What is annihilate?
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 that is in the thoughts of most prisoners

What is food?

200

His warnings are ignored near the beginning of the story.

Who is Moishe the Beadle?

200

Making a decision or acting in a way that is not advisable

What is imprudent?

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

Thin, wasted, puny, gaunt, haggard, scrawny

What is waiflike or wizened?

400

What Mrs. Schacter hallucinates.

What is a large fire or conflagration

400

The study of Jewish mysticism.

What is Kabbalah?

400

It can help people through difficult times.

Multiple answers What is faith? (humanity, humor. love/family)

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

Pious

What is very religious?

500
It happens to the sick prisoners who stay behind in the infirmary when the camp is evacuated.
What is liberated?
500

What Elie says to himself about the rabbi's son

What is "I hope I would never leave my father like that?" (paraphrased)

500

Many prisoners face this inner-conflict in their struggle to survive in such dehumanizing and horrible conditions. (What vs what--multiple answers)

Multiple answers: EX: What is... civility vs. savagery. faith vs. skepticism. self vs others...

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

The way a prisoner might try to steal food

What is surreptitiously?