"She was about fifty . . . Her husband and two eldest sons had been deported with the first transport by mistake. The separation had completely broken her."
Who is Madame Schachter?
100
Saves Elie's life when someone is trying to strangle him
Who is Meir Katz?
100
He meets Franek, Idek, and Juliek here; It's Elie's third concentration camp
What is Buna?
100
Dies shortly before he and Elie would have been liberated; Elie hears him begging for help, but he does nothing.
Who is Elie's father?
100
What Elie smells when he first arrives at Birkenau.
What is burning flesh?
200
"The only thing that keeps me alive. . . is that Reizel and the children are still alive. If it wasn't for them, I couldn't keep going."
Who is Stein of Antwerp?
200
Elie laughed at him when he found out that he moved a hundred prisoners to sleep with a young Polish girl
Who is Idek?
200
Elie's second concentration camp; Elie becomes "A-7713"
What is Auschwitz?
200
The soup tastes like corpses after his death
Who is the Pipel?
200
The reason that Elie gets upset with his father for being beaten by Idek?
He should have known how to stay out of Idek's way
300
". . . fair hair well combed, a red coat over her arm, a little girl of seven. The bundle on her back was too heavy for her. She gritted her teeth. She knew by now that it would be useless to complain
Who is Tzipora?
300
He looks like a sad, young angel. He was hanged but didn't die right away because he was so light.
Who is the Pipel?
300
First camp Elie arrives at; Elie sees flames gushing out of a tall chimney into a black sky for the first time
What is Birkenau?
300
Dies after playing a concert to the other dying men
Who is Juliek?
300
The reason that Elie has to stay in the hospital at Buna?
What is the significance of a swollen foot?
400
"[He] too had become a completely different person. The student of the Talmud, the child that [he] was, had been consumed in the flames. There remained only a shape that looked like [him]."
Who is Elie?
400
Beat Elie's father until Elie finally gave him his gold crown
Who is Franek?
400
The last camp Elie lives in; his father dies there; he is liberated there
What is Buchenwald?
400
Falls over and is trampled when running from Buna to Gleiwitz.
Who is Zalman?
400
The "inheritance" that Elie gets from his father when he thinks he's going to die at Buna.
What are a spoon and knife?
500
". . . a cruel face, but not devoid of intelligence, and wearing a monocle; a conductor's baton in his hand . . . the baton moved unremittingly, sometimes to the right, sometimes to the left."
Who is Dr. Mengele?
500
Servant to the Wiesels; She tried to give Elie and his family safe refuge
Who is Martha?
500
Juliek dies in this location; Elie's father is "selected" to die, but Elie creates a distraction so that his father survives
What is Gleiwitz?
500
Dies because she's too young or weak to work at concentration camps