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Elie Wiesel
Themes
People
Places & 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
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
He is trampled by the prisoners
What is Zalman?
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/swollen 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 Moishe the Beadle?
200
Where do the prisoners end up at the end?
What is Buchenwald?
300
The reason Elie is sent to the dentist
What is his gold teeth?
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
Whose son considers them a burden and abandons them?
Who is Rabbi Eliahou?
400
What is Mrs. Schacter's premonition?
What is fire?
400
The study of Jewish mysticism.
What is Kabbalah?
400
Something that people take for granted. What all the prisoners yearned for.
What is freedom?
400
He is the cruel Kapo who whips Elie.
Who is Idek?
400
What is the name of the camp where the prisoners sit in the snow?
What is Gleiwitz?
500
It happens to the sick prisoners who stay behind in the infirmary when the camp is evacuated.
What is liberated or freed?
500
The number that was tattooed on Elie's arm.
What is A-7713?
500
Many prisoners face this when thinking about the Germans.
Hatred
500
The violinist who plays one last concerto before dying.
Who is Juliek?
500
Who is selected from Elie's group?
Who is Akiba Drummer?