What the Plot?
The town Elie and his family come from
What is Sighet?
Who is Moshe the Beadle?
"I've got a premonition of evil," said my mother.
What is Foreshadowing?
Elie is from
What is Sighet?
Synonyms: Exterminate/Obliterate
Antonyms: Create/Build
What is Annihilate?
Madam Schachter sees this
What is Fire?
Plays Beethoven to the dead and dying
Who is Juliek?
"I've got more faith in Hitler than in anyone else. He's the only one who's kept his promises, all his promises, to the Jewish people."
What is Irony?
Place of anti-Semitic activity: heard on the radio
What is Budapest?
Extremely exhuasted
Why does Elie end up having to have an operation?
What is his foot swells?
Decides who will die at selections at Auschwitz
Who is Dr. Mengele?
Barbed wire on the cover of the book
What is Symbolism?
Has Idek as his Kapo
What is Buna?
Anytomn: Voluptuous
What is Emaciated?
What does Elie pray to God that he will never do?
Kapo who beats Elie and his father
Who is Idek?
"How I sympathize with Job!"
What is Allusion?
Place where Elie's mother and sisters may have died
What is Buchenwald?
A cooperative enterprise
What is Collective?
This stares back at Elie at the end of the novel
What is a corpse?
Trampled to death in the run to Gleiwitz
Who is Zalman?
It is a warning to the living that atrocities like the Holocaust can happen and will happen again if we are not vigilant.
What is Theme?
"Work Makes You Free"
What is Auschwitz?
Extremely dangerous especially in regard to wrongs being committed
What is Indifference?