English - Night Unit Test

• Franek the foreman wanted Elis gold crown

  • For wealth

• After the young boy was hanged the inmates state that the soup tasted like corpses

  • Because of the horrible sight of that hanging

• Eli caught Idek doing something with a female and snickered

  • Which caused him to be whipped by Idek

• All Juliek had was his violin that was his whole family

  • The violin gave him life and hope

• On January 29, 1945

  • Elis father died

• The patients that were in the infirmary were rumored to be killed when the prisoners were getting evacuated, but instead got liberated by the Russians

• Whilst they were marching, Rabi Eliahu's son left him for himself and ran up to the front so he wouldn't get killed.

• Eli won the Nobel Prize for his incredibly heartbreaking story and how he shared his experience through that tough time and how he inspired others to share their story

VOCAB

Antisemitism - Hatred of Jews or the concept of Jews

Genocide - Deliberate extermination of a racial or cultural group

Final Solution - Hitlers program of systematically killing the entire Jewish people

Ghetto - separate section of a city where members of a minority group are forced to live

Aryan Race - the pure Germanic race, used by the Nazis to suggest a superior non-Jewish Caucasian

Propaganda - information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize

Memoir - nonfiction, an account of the authors personal experiences during a particular time

Red Army - the name of the Soviet Union’s military

Death Marches - The marches imposed upon the prisoners by the Nazis in order to keep them from liberation by the allied forces

foreman - the leader of a work crew

Kapo - a Nazi concentration camp prisoner who was given privileges in return for supervising prisoner work gangs: often a common criminal and frequently brutal to fellow inmates.

barracks - a building or group of buildings used to house prisoners

Pipel - German for a young apprentice or assistance, in this case an assistant to the Kapos

Blockalteste - Block elder and inmate functionary in charge of a single concentration camp barracks.

SS - Nazi secret police; in charge of death camps

wizened - dry, shrunken, wrinkled

edict - an official order

Tone - Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character

Questions

What does Eli lose while he is imprisoned in a concentration camp?

- Family members (mother and his three sisters)

Why did Wiesel keep silent at first about his experience during the holocaust?

- Felt guilty about surviving when so many died

What prize did Eli win?

- Nobel Prize

When did Eli Wiesel die?

- he died in 2016 at age 87