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The local poor man living in Sighet, who helps Elie to study Kabbalah. He tried to warn the Jews about the Nazis after escaping a massacre.
Who is Moishe the Beadle
Elie is originally from this place
What is Sighet, Transylvania
The first place Elie is segregated to within the city of Sighet.
What is the ghetto?
He was a young musician who played a violin in the barracks before dying.
Who is Juliek?
Elie's youngest sister
Who is Tsiporah
Elie is _____ years old at the beginning of the book.
What is 12 years old
8 words that changed Elie's life forever.
What is, "Men to the left, women to the right."
This was a foreman at the warehouse in Buna where Elie and his father worked. He had a reputation of being exceptionally cruel to prisoners. He wanted Elie's gold crown on his tooth and beat Elie's father to persuade Elie to give it to him.
Who was Franek?
What is Auschwitz - Birkenau?
Who is Shlomo?
When Elie first arrived in Buna, an aide to the SS offered to place him into a good work Kommando in exchange for what?
What were his shoes?
The disease that killed Elie's father.
What is dysentery?
After Elie receives a beating from his Kommandant, who wipes the blood from his face and shows him kindness?
Who is the French woman?
What is the Selection Process?
The woman who has a vision of fire whilst in the cattle cars.
Who is Mrs. Schachter.
Elie is liberated in this month
What is April?
What were Elie's father's last words?
"Eliezer"
Who was the devoted man whose son purposefully abandoned him while running (for 2 nights straight) from Buna to the next camp called, Gleiwitz?
Who was Rabbi Eliahou?
This was a smaller camp where Elie and his father were forced to do hard labor. This camp was known as Auschwitz III.
What is Buna?
The name of the Kommandant of Elie's group at Buna who beats him for no reason.
Who is Idek
Name 3 of the camps where Elie was forced to stay.
What is Birkenau, Buna, Buchenwald, and Auschwitz, (Gleiwitz)
The Jewish Holiday that celebrates the New Year.
What is Rosh Hashanah?
Elie befriends two brothers. They made plans together on how they would relocate after the war. What was one brother's name?
Who was Yossi and Tibi?
Prisoners were forced to march to this camp during the winter evacuation. Elie's father died in this camp.
What is Buchenwald?