Night Study Guide
The Wiesels could have escaped had they
1) believed Moishe 2) got the window open to talk 3) Maria's safe house
the first steps of intimidation of the Jews by the Germans include
1) close the synagogues 2) take all their gold 3) make them wear yellow stars
the Germans first arrive in Hungary in
1944
The Death March was approx ______ kilometers
20
Elie's tattoo and new name was
A-7713 (left arm)
liberation occurs on
April 11, 1945
the first camp to which Elie and his father are sent is
Auschwitz- Birkenau
Stein
Elie's relative looking for his family
major influence in Elie's life
Moishe the Beadle
Elie lived in
Sighet, Transylvania
"That night the soup tasted better than ever" refers to
a just hanging
How much time passes between Moishe's warning to Elie and others and the arrival of the Germans?
about 1 1/2 years (end of 1942-spring of 1944)
April 5,1945
all the Jews were going to be killed
French woman
co-worker with false papers
Yom Kippur
day of atonement
reasons Wiesel wrote Night and authorized a new translation
doesn't want his story to go unnoticed so he can be the voice of all people that died
Elie's thoughts during Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur
doubts Jews are God's chosen people
Franek
foreman who takes Elie's gold crown
"Work makes you _______" was the inscription at Auschwitz
free
Yossi
friend of Elie-twin
Akiba Drumer
hasidic charmer
Elie's father gave him a knife and spoon because
he thought he may not see Elie again
"Fear was greater than _______"
hunger
"That night the soup tasted of corpses" refers to the
innocent prisoners hung
Kaddish
jewish hymns for the dead
Kabbalah
jewish mysticism
Rosh Hashanah
jewish new year
Idek
kapo with a temper; beats Elie's father
prisoner from block 37
killed for an extra ration of soup
Talmud
primary source of Jewish religious laws and theology
ghettos
prison area of the city
Kapos
prisoners that became guards
Mrs. Schacter
sees the flames and yells on the train
the young Pole
speaks first kind words
the images that Elie shares about the horrible conditions include
starvation and disease
Wiesel's first major reference to the word night comes when he refers to
the ghettos- news being transported out to the camps
holocaust
the time period where the Nazis terminated/deported most Jews and political prisoners (1942-1945)
Juliek
violinist