Plot Points
The reason Elie gets surgery on his foot.
What is a swollen foot due to cold weather?
Where Elie and his father are separated from his mother and sisters, marking the beginning of their struggle to survive.
What is their arrival at Auschwitz- Birkenau?
Elie’s deeply religious teacher and spiritual mentor
Who is Moise the Beatle?
The place where the Jews of Sighet were taken immediately after leaving their homes.
What is a ghetto?
“Jews, listen to me! That’s all I ask of you. No money. No pity. Just listen!
What did Moise the Beatle say?
The warning Moishe the Beadle gives when he returns from deportation.
What is Jews are being killed by Nazis?
The two lies Elie tells to avoid being killed at Birkenau.
What is being 18 and a farmer?
His son abandons him once he is too weak to continue running during the Death March.
Who is Rabbi Eliahou?
Where Elie briefly rests but ultimately decides to leave due to fear of being killed during the evacuation.
What s an infirmary (or hospital)?
"For God’s sake, where is God?"
What does a fellow prisoner say when witnessing the pipel being hung?
The Kabbalah, ancient Jewish mysticism.
What does Elie want to study as a young person in Sighet?
The decision Elie makes that he fears he will regret.
What is leaving the hospital to evacuate Buna with the other prisoners?
Who is Juliek?
This is where there was a bombing during the air raid
What is Buna?
"Fire! I see fire! I see fire!’”
What does Mrs. Schacter scream on the cattle car?
This results in the prisoners fighting and killing each other.
What is the German workers throwing scraps of bread into the train car as it drives by?
Elie prays for this when he is taking refuge in the shed during the Death March.
What is the strength to never abandon his father?
He stops during the Death March and is trampled to death.
Who is Zalmund?
What is Buchenwald?
"Here, every man has to fight for himself and not think of anyone else... you're better off alone.”
What does the Blockalteste advise Elie as his father is sick and dying?
This moment after liberation reveals the full extent of Elie’s emotional and physical transformation.
What is when he looks in the mirror and sees a corpse looking back at him?
This is the reason the "soup tasted like corpses."
What is the young boy/ pipel was hung and Elie watched him die slowly?
He was known as the "Doctor of Death" at Auschwitz.
Who is Dr. Mengele?
The three major camps Elie is taken to in order.
Auschwitz (Birkenau subcamp) → Buna → Buchenwald
"Don't let yourself be overcome by sleep, Eliezer. It's dangerous to fall asleep in snow" (88).
Who is Elie's father / Shlomo Wiesel