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What is an automaton?
a moving mechanical device made in imitation of a human meeting
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What is transcended?
be or go beyond the range or limits of
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What is Juliek's corpse?
Elie is referring to this "strange overwhelming little corpse"
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What is Rabbi Eliahu?
An old man who is looking for his son enters the shed that Elie and his father are in. Who is that man?
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What is parched?
extremely thirsty
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What is deprivation?
the lack or denial of something considered to be a necessity
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What is SS officers?
Who said, "Faster, you swine, you filthy sons of..."
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What is Gleiwitz?
The name of the new camp the prisoners go to.
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What is a rabbi?
a Jewish scholar or teacher, especially one who studies or teaches Jewish law
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What is emaciated?
abnormally thin or weak, especially because of illness or a lack of food
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What is Elie?
"I saw myself in every stiffened corpse."
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Who is Juliek?
A polish boy who played the violin.
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What is quenching?
satisfy by drinking
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What is poignant?
keenly felt, evoking a strong sense of sadness or regret
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What is Elie?
"My God, Lord of the Universe, give me strength never to do what Rabbi Eliahou's son has done."
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What is snow?
Prisoners eat this while waiting for the train to arrive?
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What is convoy?
a group of ships or vehicles traveling together
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What is plaintive?
expressing sorrow or melancholy
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What is Elie?
“We were masters of nature, masters of the world. We had transcended everything—death, fatigue, our natural needs. Stronger than cold or hunger, stronger than the guns and the desire to die, doomed and rootless, nothing but numbers, we were the only men on earth”
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They didn't walk they ran.
How many miles did the prisoners walk?
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