Night Flashcards

Holocaust

Any mass slaughter or reckless destruction of life.

Genocide

The deliberate and systematic extermination of a national, racial, political, or cultural group.

Racism

hatred or intolerance of another race or races

Anti-Semitism

a person who persecutes or discriminates against Jews

Deportation

the act of transporting someone from his country; banishment

extermination

To destroy living things completely: eliminate

Liberated

To set free

Nazi

A member of the German Workers' Party who followed Adolf Hitler

Jew

A person whose religion is Judaism

Elie Wiesel

Author of Night

Sholomo

Elie's father

Tzipora

Elie's youngest sister

Auschwitz/Birkenau

The first concentration camp that the Wiesels went to.

Men to the left, women to the right

The way in which Elie and his father were seperated from Mother and Tzipora

18

The age Elie pretended to be so he would be kept alive to work.

The burning of babies

The first sight Elie disbelieved.

Showers

The compulsory formality at the entrance to all camps

Number Tattoos

The way the Jews were identified

Shoes

What Elie could have given the assistant so that he could go with his father to a good unit

gold crown

The reason Elie was sent to the dentist

Bite your teeth and wait. Save anger for another day

Advice from the French girl

Idek

The man who beat Elie's father

What Elie laughs at

Idek sleeping with Polish girl

The young boy called a Pipel

The death that affects Elie the most

humiliation, a lesson

The reason why people are hung rather than shot

Rosh Hashananh

Jewish New Year

Roll call was short and soup served quickly

The "fine New Year's gift

Move limbs to give skin color

Advice Elie gets to avoid selection

I'm too skinny. I'm too weak

Elie's thoughts as he runs during the selection process

Knife and spoon

Inheritance from Wiesel's father

They die

What happens to those who lose faith

Swollen foot

reason Wiesel ends up in hospital

Russians are coming

Reason why the camp must be evacuated

For more room

The reason why the Jews were happy to throw out the dead on the train

12

The amount of survivors who got off the train alive in Buchenwald

Ashamed

How Elie felt after thinking "If only I didn't find him! If only I were relieved of this responsibility, I could use all my strength to fight for my own survival

Out of tears

Why Elie didn't cry after his father died

Free at last

Elie's feeling when his father died

Never saw him dead

Where Elie saw his dead father

To eat

After his father died, Elie's only desire was...

the sirens sounded

Evacuation was post poned to the next day due to

His own

The look into ____________ eyes has never left him.

chemical showers

When prisoners were sprayed with poison to kill them

Moishe

Elie's spiritual mentor

Gallows

Where people are hung

Irony

Opposite of what is expected.

Personification

Giving life like actions to nonliving objects

Metaphor

a comparison without using like or as

Adolf Hitler

started the Holocaust, leader of the Nazi Party, dictator of Germany

Resistance

An opposition group