Night Elie Wiesel Flashcards - English 10

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Elie Wiesel

Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate is the author of Night, about his experience at Auschwitz.

Shlomo Wiesel

Elie's father. He is a considerate and religious man and shopkeeper who is respected by the villagers. He is arrested along with his son and imprisoned in a concentration camp, where he dies.

Dr. Mengele

"The Angel of Death," a doctor who performed brutal, unnecessary experiments and operations upon prisoners

Elie's inheritance from his father

A knife and a spoon

Elie's gold crown

pulled with a rusty spoon

Elie's first thoughts after liberation were about what?

food

Elie and his father lie about this when they get to Auschwitz

their ages

Madame Schachter

A fifty year old deportee who has hallucinations of "fire and furnace" while traveling on the train.

What country liberates Elie's camp?

United States

Why does Juliek play Beethoven?

to rebel against the Germans

Rabbi Elaihou & son

son leaves Rabbi behind, he is a burden

Shlomo dies of

dysentery

What would happen if Elie stayed in the infirmary?

Liberated two days later

Night represents

death, darkness, evil

Hanging of the Pipel

a symbolic death of God, affects the prisoners significantly

situational irony

An outcome that turns out to be very different from what was expected

dramatic irony

when a reader is aware of something that a character isn't

Arbeit Macht Frei (on the gates of Auschwitz) means

Work makes you free

synogogue

The Jewish place of worship when they were without a temple

Akiba Drumer

A Jewish Holocaust victim who gradually loses his faith in God as a result of his experiences in the concentration camp.

Tzipora

Eliezer's youngest sister

emaciated

abnormally thin or weak, especially because of illness or a lack of food.

Elie's age when he first enters Auschwitz

15

Idek

Eliezer's Kapo (a prisoner conscripted by the Nazis to police other prisoners) at the electrical equipment warehouse in Buna

Kaddish

Jewish prayer for the dead

Appelplatz

roll call/common area inside concentration, labor, and death camps

described as an "eerily poignant little corpse"

Juliek's violin

Selections

finding prisoners who are weak to be sent to the gas chambers

April 11, 1945

Date the Buchenwald camp was liberated

Moshe the Beadle

Eliezer's teacher of Jewish mysticism, a poor Jew who lives in Sighet.

Yosi and Tibi

Two brothers with whom Eliezer becomes friendly in Buna.

how the prisoners stay hydrated

eat snow off of each others backs

notorious

famous for something bad

apathy

a lack of feeling, emotion, or interest

Anti-Semitic

Ill-feeling, prejudice and discrimination against Jewish people

pious

devoutly religious

annihilate

to destroy completely

camaraderie

mutual trust and friendship among people who spend a lot of time together

Country that frees the camp

United States

Hyperbole

exaggeration

synogogue

Jewish house of worship

Akiba Drumer

Religious man who gives up his faith and then dies

Idek the Kapo

An overseer at Buna, he is described as having fits of madness.

Franek

Eliezer's foreman at Buna. Franek notices Eliezer's gold tooth and gets a dentist in the camp to pry it out with a rusty spoon.

Elie's hometown

Sighet, Transylvania (Hungary)

Point of arrival

Auschwitz Birkenau (2)

Zalman

One of Eliezer's fellow prisoners. He is trampled to death during the run to Gleiwitz.

Restrictions for Jews in the Sighet ghetto

curfews , must wear yellow star, no cafes, no valuables

Genocide

Systematic and planned extermination of an entire group of peoples

Annihilation

total destruction

Holocaust

the state-sponsored systematic persecution of European Jewry by Nazi Germany and its collaborators between 1933 and 1945

Commemoration

he act of honoring the memory of or serving as a memorial to someone or something

Totalitarianism

total control of the country by the government

Pogroms

government-organized attacks on Jewish neighborhoods

Fascism

a system of government that is marked by stringent social and economic control, a strong centralized government usually headed by a dictator

Prejudice

an irrational hatred of a person, group, or race based upon a preconceived opinion or judgment

Stereotype

a generalization of a person; a person who is regarded, not as an individual, but as a member of a group or nationality

Totalitarianism

A political system in which the government has total control over the lives of individual citizens.

commemoration

act of honoring the memory of someone or something

stereotype

generalization of a person, not seeing them as an individual but as a member of a group or ethnicity

Kristallnacht

"Night of Broken Glass," when Nazis attacked Jews throughout Germany

Nuremburg Laws

took away Jewish civil rights including the right to marry non-Jews

Denmark

Country that saved the most Jews

A group the Nazis did not persecute or try to eliminate?

Germans

A-7713

Elie's new name in the concentration camps

100 whittled down to 12

How many started on the train to Buchenwald, how many survived

Elizier

Schlomo's last word

original title of NIGHT

And the World Has Remained Silent