Tried to warn everyone about the Nazis coming
Moishe the Beadle
Played his violin for the prisoners until he was killed
Juliek
Told Elie that he could return when he felt better
Dentist
Died along with Elie's mother
Tzipora
Survived the concentration camps
Elie
Passed for Aryan, but was really Jewish
the French girl
Screamed about the smoke and flames on the train
Mrs. Schacter
Son saw him as a burden and wanted to leave him behind
Rabbi Eliahu
Guarded the inmates at the camp
SS
Town that Elie and his family was from
Sighet
Country that Elie and his family was from
Transylvania
Disease Elie's father died of
Dysentery
Was taken in the middle of the night while Elie was sleeping
Elie's father
Reason Elie had to have surgery
He hurt his foot
Most important thing to Elie as a young man
Religion
Camps where people are forced to work and live in horrible conditions, usually until death
Concentration camps
Camp Elie was taken to
Auschwitz-Birkenau
Before being taken to the concentration camps, Jews were forced to live here
Ghettos
Instrument used to remove Elie's gold crown
Rusty spoon
Reason why Elie's shoes were not taken away from him
Covered in mud
Jews were transported in
Cattle cars
Forced to wear this to identify themselves
Star of David
First thing the men did after being freed
Stuff themselves with food
Elie saved his father when he was selected by
Creating confusion
At the end of the novel, Elie looks at himself in the mirror and sees this
A corpse
The camps are liberated in this month
April
Elie almost died of this
Food poisoning
Elie was separated from them at Birkenau
His mother and three sisters
Elie lies about what when he first arrives at Birkenau
His age
Elie has this and people try to take it from him
Gold crown
Genocide
the deliberate and systematic extermination of a national, racial, political, or cultural group
Ghetto
the confinement of Jews in a set-apart area of the city
Prejudice
a preconceived opinion or felling formed without knowledge, thought, or reason
Discrimination
when actions are based upon prejudices, stereotypes, and biases
Kapo
camp prisoner forced to oversee other prisoners
Race
any people united by common history, language, or cultural traits
Ethnicity
a shared and distinctive cultural characteristic pertaining to the language, religion, background, etc. of a group of people
Anti- Semitism
hostility to ward or discrimination against Jewish people
Death Camp
camps dedicated to the efficient murder of Jews and other victims
Adolf Hitler
The Fuhrer," dictator of Germany (chancellor- 1933, President- 1934), a demagogue and tyrant who obtains power by appealing to the emotions and prejudices of the masses
Adolf Eichmann
devised the plan for the Final Solution
Heinrich Himmler
the head of the SS
Rudolph Hess
the commander of Auschwitz
Dr. Mengele
The Angel of Death," a doctor who performed brutal, unnecessary experiments and operations upon prisoners
Third Reich
the Third Republic of Germany which began with Hitler's rule in 1933 and ended with his defeat in 1945
Aryan Race
the pure Germanic race, used by the Nazis to suggest a superior, non-Jewish Caucasian typified by height, blonde hair, blue eyes
SS
Schutz-Staffel" (literal defense echelon), established in 1929 as Hitler's backshirted bodyguards. They became the elite guards of the Nazis trained in brutatlity and put in charge of concentration camps
Gestapo
the secret police organized in 1933 to uncover and undermine political opposition; german acronym for the German Secret State Police; part of the SS; notorious for terrorism against enemies of the state
Auschwitz
the largest death camp, located in Poland
The Final Solution
the plan deviesed in 1941 to speed up the system of killing the Hews and "undesirables". The previous method of shooting and burying the dead was too "costly and inefficient." This final method used an efficient system of gas chambers and crematories to k
Selection
term used when the SS forced prisoners to line up for inspection and decided which prisoners would live and which would be killed
Kabbalah
jewish mysticism, including numerology
Kaddish
a prayer in Aramaic praising God. The mourner's _______ is said for the dead
Passover
the celebration of the exodus of Jewish people from slavery in Egypt
Synagogue
a Jewish house of worshipp and study
Star of David
nazis forced Jews to wear a cloth badge with the word Jew written in the center of a yellow six pointed star