She received a box of chocolates from a German office
Who is Mrs. Kahn?
She was a relative of the Wiesel family. She lived with them when the ghettos were formed.
Who is Batia Reich
This was the town outside of which Moishe was taken by the mobile killing units.
What is Kolomay?
is an assistant in a house of worship
What is a beadle?
"..tears like drops of wax..."
What is a simile?
Her husband and two of her sons were mistakenly included in the first transport from Sighet.
Who is Mrs. Shachter?
He begged the the mobile killing squad to kill him before his sons were killed
Who is Tobie?
Was the final destination of the cattle cars.
What is Birkenau?
Why didn't the Jews of Sighet listen to Moishe when he returned?
They thought he was mad.
"...the dead empty houses..."
What is personification?
She was a former maid of the Wiesel's.
Who is Maria?
He tried to warn the Jews of Sighet after he was shot by the mobile-killing unit squad.
Who is Moishe the Beadle?
Is to where the Wiesel's could have emigrated in the Spring of 1944.
What is Palestine?
What commandment did Mr. Wiesel break when he didn't think wearing the yellow star was a problem?
What is thou shall not be a victim.
"..the curtain finally rose.."
What is an implied metaphor?
She lay dying for three days after being shot by the mobile killing units
Who is Malka?
She was Elie's oldest sister?
Hilda
Is to where Moishe returned after he survived the mobile killing unit.
What is Sighet?
extinct stars refer to
Who are the Jews killed in the concentration camps?
"No more fear. No more anguish. We would live among Jews, among brothers..."(Wiesel 12).
What is irony
He was a shopkeeper who became a police officer after the Germans occupied Sighet.
Who is Stern?
He did not want Elie to study the Kabbalah.
Mr. Wiesel
Was where on the Czechoslovakian border the cattle car stopped.
What is Kaschau?
unseeing eyes refer to
Who are the bystanders?
"The race toward death had begun"(Wiesel 10).
paradox