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