night by elie wiesel

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• Name two factors that contributed to the Holocaust leading up to WWII.

• National Indifference• Treaty of Versailles• Anti Semitism• Depression• Hitler’s charisma

• Describe the invasion of Poland and its significance to the rest of WWII.

• Radio station• Took only three weeks• Beginning of the war• Blitzkrieg: lightening war

• Name two methods of killing the Nazi’s adopted prior to adopting the Final Solution.

• Killing Squads• Euthanasia

• What are the laws called that limited Jewish freedom? Name two.

• Nuremberg Laws

What was Kristallnacht?

• Pogrom where Nazis burned Jewish temples and businesses. 30,000 Jewish men were deported.

• Three days after the liberation of Buchenwald I became very ill with food poisoning. I was transferred to the hospital and spent two weeks between life and death.

• irony

• The march began. The dead stayed in the yard under the snow, like faithful guards assassinated, without burial.

• simile

• Men threw themselves on top of each other, stamping on each other, tearing at each other…Wild beasts of prey, with animal hatred in their eyes; an extraordinary vitality had seized them.

• Metaphor

• Never shall I forget those moments which murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to dust.

• Personification

• She [Madame Schachter] continued to scream, breathless, her voice broken by sobs. 'Jews, listen to me! I can see a fire! There are huge flames! It is a furnace!'

• Foreshadowing

• What does Elie ask Moshe to teach him? What is Moshe’s advice?

• Instruct him in the Cabbala• Ask God the right questions

but do not expect answers. True questions are answered by your inner self.

• What is a Kapo and how do they function within the camp and the novel?

• A head prisoner, gains power • They keep the other prisoners

in line• They show the hierarchy of

power and the way anti-Semitism was institutionalized and exploited.

• Describe Elie’s arrival at Auschwitz. Include selection.

• Double: who is this person? Angel of Death.

• Men/women separated.• Stripped, decontaminated,

tattooed.• Dr. Mengele

• What is a pipel? And why was the angel faced pipel hanged?

• Child who is given favor, probably sexually abused

• Kapo and resistance movement

• What part of his body does Elie describe himself as becoming while in the camp? Why is this significant?

• A stomach• Dehumanizing• Why not a heart for example?

• At what moment in the text does Elie lose his faith?

• Jewish New Year.• States that he is stronger than

the Almighty.

• What is Elie’s father’s inheritance to him?

• A knife and spoon

• Name two examples of situational irony in the text.

• Leaving the ghetto/police officer

• Liberation in the hospital• Elie giving up his crown/shoes

• Name two characters in the text that experienced a physical death. Explain.

• Zalman• Juliek• Chlomo

• Name two characters in the text that experienced a spiritual death. Explain.

• Meir Katz• Akiba Drumer• Elie• Madame Schachter

• Name one instance of SILENCE in the novel and why it is significant.

• Elie not crying out when his father is beaten by the kapo shows how he was forced to silence his morals in fear of abuse.

• What is the significance of NIGHT in the book. Cite one example.

• First night in Auschwitz. • Begins a time in Elie’s life

where he loses all meaning.

• What facial feature does Wiesel continually describe. Why is this feature significant?

• Eyes• Windows to the soul

• What urge does Elie repeatedly say he is defined by? Name one instance in the text.

• Hunger

• After the hanging of the Warsaw youth, the soup tasted delicious.

• Name the camps Elie went to in order

• Auschwitz-Birkenau• Buna• Gliewitz• Buchenwald