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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 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

When someone is very religious

What is pious?

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

How a prisoner might steal food

What is surreptitiously?

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 don't want to ever leave my father like that?" (paraphrased)

500

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

What is civility vs. savagery. humanity vs. inhumanity. self-interest vs. love for others.

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

What is imprudent?