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Elie Wiesel
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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
A place created to hold a group of people apart from the rest of the country
What is Ghetto?
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 tes 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
It was at this enormous concentration camp that between 1 and 1.6 million people were killed.
What is Auschwitz?
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
Elie and his family were first exposed to camp life at this reception center for Auschwitz.
What is Birkenau?
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.
What is faith?
400
He is the cruel Kapo who whips Elie.
Who is Idek?
400
This is the location of many of the workhouses and factories at which camp prisoners were forced to work.
What is Buna?
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
It was at this camp that Juliek, the violinist from Berlin, died.
What is Gleiwitz?