Characters Part I | Characters Part 2 | Places | Vocabulary Part I | Vocabulary Part 2 |
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Who is Juliek?
Who is the violinist?
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Who is Batia Reich?
Who is a relative of the Wiesels who warned them someone was knocking at the door?
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What is Haifa?
What is the major port and rail center of Israel as well as where Elie and the two Czech brothers
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What is Gestapo?
Secret police.
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What is the Talmud?
45-volumes of Jewish wisdom.
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Who is Franek?
Who is the Foreman who stole Elie's gold crown?
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Who is Idek?
Who is the Kapo in charge of the electrical warehouse?
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What is Auschwitz?
This is a death camp in Oswiecim, Poland. Two million victims were annihilated with Zyklon B in its showerheads.
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What is Yom Kippur?
Jewish day of atonement.
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What is Rosh Hashanah?
1st day of Jewish New Year
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Who is Bea?
Who is the second child in the Wiesel family?
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Who is Meir Katz?
Who chose to stay on the train at Buchenwald?
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What is Buna?
This is the camp that Elie and his father stayed the longest amount of time.
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What is Boches?
Derogatory name for Germans.
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What is Mysticism?
Direct knowledge of God obtained through intuition
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Who is Bela Katz?
Who had to put his own father into the crematory?
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Who is Yechiel?
Who is the brother of the rabbi of Sighet?
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What is Hungary?
This country is south of Austria and Czechoslovakia.
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What is Cabbala?
Interpreting scripture through meditation.
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What is Zohar?
This is the Book of Brightness.
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Who is Maimonides?
Who arranged Jewish law and formulated Jewish creed?
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Who is Akiba Drumer?
Who was a holy man who recited prayers of the Talmud by heart?
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What is Galicia, near Kolomage?
This city lies partly in Poland and the Ukraine and is considered Slavic territory
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What is phylacteries?
These are leather cubes containing parchment slips.
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What is Zionism?
This is the international drive for a Jewish state.
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