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Describe the importance of religion in Elie's early life. (3)
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He believed "profoundly." He studied Talmud and actively sought a teacher of the Cabbala
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Who was Moshe the Beadle and what was his importance to Elie? (3)
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The caretaker of the Synagogue, and the man Elie found to teach him Jewish mysticism.
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Describe what happened to Moshe the Beadle when he and the other foreign Jews were deported. (3)
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They were taken to Poland, forced to dig their own graves, then shot. Moshe was shot in the leg and escaped by pretending to be dead.
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Name some of the things Facists were doing to Jews in Budapest. Why were the Jews of Sighet unconcerned? (3)
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Attacking Jewish shops and synagogues, forcing them to wear the yellow star. The Sighet Jews were unconcerned because they felt that the Germans would not come to their town
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What was the purpose of the Ghettos? (3)
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To house the Jews as they were being prepared for transfer to the camps. They were forced to live in cramped conditions with few belongings.
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Describe the conditions of the cattle car in which Elie and his family were transported. (3)
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Eighty people to a car, a few loaves of bread and a little water, bars on the windows, sealed door, one person in charge, if anyone escaped that person would be shot, little air, took turns sitting down, unbearable heat and thirst.
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What was significant about Madame Schachter's "vision"? (3)
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She saw flames and smoke which forshawdowed the crematoria and death at the camps.
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What was the real purpose of sending men to the right and women to the left, and then further "selection" by Dr. Mengele? (3)
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It seperated men from women, then children over 15 from the women. Mothers and small children were immediately executed. The Nazis only wanted healthy people of working age, not children.
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As a lorry containing babies was brought to the ditch near Elie, what upset him so? What did this scene forshadow? (3)
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They were using babies for target practice then throwing them in the pit to burn. It forshadows the Nazis using the pits to burn adults when the crematoria became too crowded
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The "older" prisoners at Auschwitz were armed with truncheons, and were ready to use them. Why and for what purpose? (3)
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There job was to get the new prisoners to the places where they needed to go at high speed. If the older prisoners did not do as they were told, they would have been shot themselves
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What was the function of the men of the Sonder-Kommando? How were they chosen? (3)
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They were chosen for their strength to work the crematoria and to calm prisoner's fears on arrival
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Describe the processing of the new prisoners at Auschwitz, beginning with giving up their clothing. (3)
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Take off clothes, go to barber, disenfection, hot shower, pick up new clothes, all at high speed. They were then taken to barracks, slected for jobs, marched to a new destination, all of the time being beaten, insulted and harangued and uncertain.
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As Elie and his father spoke about Tzipora and Elie's mother's situation at this time, how and why did they protect each other's feelings? (3)
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Each had their doubts about the fate of mother and sister, they pretended they were happy and healthy to keep up the hope of the other person.
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Explain why the officer at Buna took a special interest in the children. (3)
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The homosexuals of the camp were trafficking in little children.
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Describe the incident with Elie and the dentist. (3)
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Dentist examined all them for gold teeth, Elie convinced the dentist not to take his tooth as he was sick. Dentist told him to come back on his own. He did, but the dentist was no longer there.
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What did Franek do in order to get Elie's gold crown? (3)
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Franek harrassed Elie's father because he he could not march in time until Elie agreed to give up the tooth, then Franek's friend removed it with a rusty spoon.
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What was so horrific about the pipel's hanging? (3)
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He had done nothing, and he was too light to immediately die, so the prisoners were forced to watch him strangle for hours.
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Describe the reasoning and the purpose of Idek's beating of Elie. (3)
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Elie had seen Idek with a girl, and he was beaten as an example to the other prisoners
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The prisoners were allowed to observe the Jewish New Year known as... (2)
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Rosh Hashanah
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The "fine new year's gift" the SS gave the prisoners was... (2)
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Selection
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Elie's father wanted to give him his "inheritance." What was it? (2)
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His knife
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After the selection, Elie's father was told to... (2)
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Stay behind at camp
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Elie needed surgery on his foot because... (2)
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He had an infection
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If Elie had stayed in the hospital after his surgery, he would have been... (2)
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Liberated
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The last thing the men did before they left on their journey out of Buna, was... (2)
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Wash the floors
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Elie would not let himself sleep in the shed, because deep down he felt that... (2)
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To sleep would mean to die
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In their haste to get to Gleiwitz, Rabbi Eliahou's son had... (2)
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Hurried to get away from him as they ran
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Juliek comforted the dying by... (2)
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playing his violin for them
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The confusion and chaos at the next selection allowed... (2)
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Elie's father to return to the right side
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Elie's father was nearly thrown out of the train because... (2)
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They thought he was dead
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Instead of bread, the prisoners on the train ate... (2)
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Snow
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The prisoners fought each other to the death because... (2)
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A workmen threw bread into the wagon
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Meir Katz helped Elie's father when a man tried to ... (2)
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Strangle Elie
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When the train arrived a Buchenwald, of the one hundred prisoners on board... (2)
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Only 12 survived
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As the prisoners were allowed to go to the blocks, the soup went untouched by them because... (2)
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They were too tired to think of food
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Elie looked for his father, but as he did so, he was ashamed of himself for thinking... (2)
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Don't let me find him; he is a burden
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Elie's father needed a doctor, because he was stricken with ... (2)
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dysentery
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The Frenchman and the Pole kept hitting Elie's father because he... (2)
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could no longer go outside to relieve himself
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Ultimately, Elie's father died because of... (2)
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a shattered skull
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After liberation, the only thing the prisoners could think of was... (2)
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food
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Tried unsuccessfully to warn the Wiesel family to leave... (1)
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Moshe, the Beadle; the Hungarian policeman; Elie's aunt
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Elie saw him in bed with a young woman so he punished him publicly for it... (1)
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Idek
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Chosen for their strength, these people worked in the crematoria... (1)
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Sonder-Kommando
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Played his violin for the prisoners until he was killed...(1)
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Juliek
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Told Elie he could return later, when he felt better, as long as he did not have to send for him... (1)
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the Dentist
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A young boy who was tortured and murdered for information he did not have...(1)
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the Pipel
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The Jews were no longer allowed to have this luxury... (1)
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Beethoven
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His son wanted to leave him behind because he had become a burden to him... (1)
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Rabbi Eliahou
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Died, along with Elie's mother...(1)
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Tzipora
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Ultimately died of a clout to the head - a smashed skull...(1)
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Chlomo Wiesel
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Jewish caretaker who lived to tell the story of his death... (1)
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Moshe the Beadle
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"Selected" men, women, and children, deciding their ultimate fate...(1)
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Dr. Mengele
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On the train, screamed about the smoke and flames, making everyone think she had gone mad...(1)
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Madame Schachter
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Passed for Aryan, but was really Jewish...(1)
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the French girl
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Became Elie's friend at Buna...(1)
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Yossi
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Guarded the inmates at the camps...(1)
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the SS
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Survived the concentration camps...(1)
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Elie Wiesel
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Took Elie's gold crown...(1)
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Franek
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Moshe the Beadle escaped certain death by...(1)
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pretending to be dead after being shot in the leg
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The people of Sighet were not afraid because they felt that the Fascists would...(1)
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would not get as far as Sighet
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When the Jews were moved into the ghettos, Elie and his family...(1)
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got to stay in their own house
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As they arrived at Auschwitz, a prisoner warned Elie and his father to...(1)
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lie about their age
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The job of the Sonder-Kommando was to...(1)
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make new prisoners feel comfortable; put bodies in the crematoria
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The hanging of the pipel was an atrocity and especially disturbing because...(1)
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He was innocent and he was too little to die instantly so he suffered for hours
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Elie was surprised when the French girl he worked with at the warehouse...(1)
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spoke German to him
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Elie went into the hospital to have surgery for...(1)
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an infection in his foot
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As a young man, perhaps the most important thing in Eli's life was...(1)
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his religion
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After a while in the camps, Elie's thoughts and actions began to show that...(1)
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he was losing his faith in God
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In the selection in which Elie's father was sent to the left, to his death, Elie...(1)
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created a diversion in which other people died
