Vocab
Characters
Events
Beliefs and Customs
Elie's Family
100
Means lack of emotion or feeling
What does apathy mean?
100
Has random fits of anger
Who is Idek?
100
Elie decides to not fast on this day since his father told him not to
What does Elie decides to do on Yom Kippur?
100
Judaism
What is Elie's religion?
100
Elie's oldest sister
Who is Hilda?
200
Means boisterous and disorderly
What does raucous mean?
200
Was killed after a selection, his last request was for the men to say Kaddish for him
Who is Akiba the Drumer?
200
Franek tortures Elie's father
How does Franek make Elie give up his gold tooth to him?
200
The Jewish oral law
What is the Talmud?
200
Holds hands with her mom as they are separated from Elie and his father
Who is Tzipora?
300
It is the second of the two
What is a latter?
300
A young musician, Elie accidentally fell on top of him when they arrived in Gleiwitz
Who is Juliek?
300
There is an Allied air raid
What happens in Buna?
300
Kabbalah
What does Moshe the Beadle help teach Elie?
300
Elie's cousin. He lies to him saying that his wife and children are alright
Who is Stein?
400
A written discussion of a topic
What is a treatise?
400
Hanged, he doesn't die immediately
Who is the young pipel?
400
The concentration camp of Buna
Where do the prisoners go after leaving Auschwitz?
400
A prayer for the dead
What is the Kaddish?
400
Elie's mother and father
Who owns a store in Sighet?
500
Means hindered and restricted
What does encumbered mean?
500
Is tied up and gagged during Elie's travel to Auschwitz
Who is Madame Schachter?
500
Elie is liberated at this concentration camp
What happens at Buchenwald?
500
The celebration of the new year of Jewish people
What is Rosh Hashanah?
500
Does not show much emotion, an advisor to the community
Who is Elie's father?