The older men beg the young men not to be foolish and tell them to rely on the words of the sage (wise men) that came before them.ģ. Why do the young men with knives decide not to revolt? How do Elie and his father save their lives at the initial selection?Ģ. Schachter’s screaming from before can now be viewed as what literary element?ġ. There’s a smell of dying, human flesh that accompanies the horrifying sight of Birkenau.ħ.
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Through the windows the Jews see chimneys attached to large furnaces. When the train arrives in _ what do the passengers see? They also probably were realizing that they should have listened when other people told them they should have escaped previously.Ħ. When their very few attempts at getting her quiet without violence failed, they automatically resorted to using it. This reveals that human nature is violence. Finally, they just decided to give up on her. After that once she escaped, she received several blows to the head. When calming her down did not succeed, a few young men forced her to sit down and then bound and gagged her. What do the other passengers do with this information?Īt first, when Madame Schachter began screaming they said she was mad, and made an attempt to calm her down. Madame Schachter saw fire and flames in her vision.Ĥ. Now it was too late and they had to accept their fate, not an easy task to do.ģ. They realized that they should have listened to the people who tried to warn them that they should have escaped. What does this quote mean, "Our eyes opened. It was extremely hot in the train, and everyone was very thirsty.Ģ. There was also very little air, the luckiest ones found themselves near a window. The cattle cars where jam packed, laying down was not an option, not even sitting. What were the conditions in the cattle car like? She offered to hide them, but the Wiesel family refused to hide.ġ. What does Maria, the former maid, offer to the Wiesel family? Do they accept? Packed eighty people to each cattle wagon, the last of the Jews depart Sighet.ġ0. Within a few days, the rest of the Jews, including Elie’s family, are deported. Even as the remaining Jews move from the big ghetto into the smaller ghetto, they forget about the previous occupants.
The smaller ghetto is expelled first and Elie compares the emptied houses to open tombs. It was similar to a town aside from the barbed wire that encircles them.ĩ. Unable to go to restaurants, travel by train, attend synagogue, being out after 6pm.Unable to own gold, jewelry, or any valuables.Unable to leave their residences for three days.What edicts did the Germans place upon the Jewish community? What is the Jews’ initial reaction to the German soldiers?ħ.
No one believes him and tell him that he’s crazy.Ħ. Moishe tells them about how babies are used for target practice and how they had to dig the graves they were to be buried in. When Moishe the Beadle returns, what story does he relate? How do people react? They say, "What do you expect? That’s war…" They were fed propaganda that the people who were removed were happy and treated well.ĥ. When all the foreign Jews were expelled from Sighet what was the initial reaction? Moishe was interested in religious teachings and had Elie ask questions about religion that Elie had not thought before.Ĥ. What connection do Moishe the Beadle and Elie have? He teaches Eliezer about Jewish mysticism.Ģ. He was poor and lived in "utter penury." He was awkward and shy.
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