Characters | Vocabulary | Short Answer | Word Scramble | GROUPS AND RELIGIONS |
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Friends of Elie, Czech brothers who work at the electrical warehouse after their parents were killed
Yossi and Tibbi
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Lack of emotion or feeling
Apathy
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Soup and a stale crust of bread
What were the only two things Elie took an interest in?
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CONVOY
OYVCNO
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Rabbi
A religious teacher and person authorized to make decisions on issues of Jewish law. Also performs
many of the same functions as a Protestant minister |
A cultured man, rather unsentimental. He was beaten by a gypsy and Idek. He was held in highest esteem by the Jewish community in Sighet. He died at Buchenwald.
Elie's Father
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Physical pain or mental anguish
Torment
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He said the world was like a hermetically sealed cattle car.
To what did Elie compare the world?
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TORMENT
ROTMNTE
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Hostility or prejudice against Jews
Anti-Semitism
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The boy who was hanged by slow strangulation because his body is too light to end the execution with one quick snap of the neck.
The young pipel
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Leaving on country for another
Emigration
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His right foot began to swell in January. He had an operation and had to recover for two weeks.
What happened to Elie's leg?
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LATTER
RELATT
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The genocide, persecution, and systematic killing of millions of Jews between 1941 - 1945. Also known as the Shoah.
Holocaust
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The woman who had visions of furnace fires while they were traveling in the convoys.
Mrs. Schachter
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Made thin due to starvation
Emaciated
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The inmates are asked undress completely and go before the SS doctors, they are asked to do different tests like running to see how capable and strong they are. The weak were killed and the capable were allowed to remain alive.
Describe what happens at selection
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MELANCHOLY
LEMANOHCLY
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An SS officer
Schutzstaffel
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A cruel-faced SS officer who committed experiments on those in the concentration camps. He especially liked to experiment on twins
Dr. Josef Mengele
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Violent mental agitation or wild excitement
Frenzy
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Describe, in order, the events that happened from the last day of Passover until Pentecost.
- On the seventh day of Passover the Germans arrested the Jewish community leaders
- Jewish residents couldn't leave their homes for two days - At the end of the three days, the Jewish residents had to wear the yellow star - The two Ghettos were set up - On the Saturday before Pentecost, Stern attended an extraordinary meeting of the council. He was told that they would all be deported the next day |
VITALITY
ITVYLIAT
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Kapos
Inmates who were appointed to oversee the other prisoners in various tasks, blockalteste (block elder)
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