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The Nazis treated the foreign Jews in the town as if they were some kind of mass murders and animals. After they had forced them on the trained and had them dig their mass grave, they had used the infants as target practice for the machine gunners. Along with I was surprised with how long they waited before they sent away all of the Jews in the town of Sighet. Also I think it was sad that they had so much fear that when their friend had knocked on the window the night before to warn them, that they ended up staying in town and got forced into the ghetto and then to the train. Just like the elizer had sailed in the book if they had checked right away they probably would’ve escaped and been saved by the soviets. I’m also surprised that the Jews thought they were going to some place safe away from the front lines after how the Nazis had treated them and forced them out of their homes into a ghetto.

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Simile: “They think I’m mad,” he whispered, and tears, like drops of wax, flowed from his eyes. (7)
Simile: The barbed wire that encircled us like a wall did not fill us with real fear. (11)
Simile: “The shadows around me roused themselves as if from a deep sleep and left silently in every direction.” (14)

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Elie’s father doesn’t want them to learn about kabbalahism and tries to stop them from learning about it but they found someone to teach them about it anyway. Schächter was going so insane people tied her up and gaged her. The “inmates” at the Auschwitz were angry with the other new arrival Jews because they had little idea what the Nazis were doing to them.
Idek was on earth day venting is anger on the Jews and Eliser happened to cross his path an was brutally beaten.
A old man trapped a crust of bread and was attacked and killed by his son for the little bit that was left.

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Observent, emotional, religious, rebellious and defiant, stubborn, independent, student, is more of a realist like their father. Decided he’d rather try and kill himself than burn in their machines. Starts to hate god and gets angered when he hears people praying but says and does nothing. During selection his father was picked and he hated how everyone started to treat him like an orphan. Grew to hate his body because it was becoming weak while his mind was stronger than ever.

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Surname: family name
Waiflike: someone frail, needy
Fraught: filled with
Hasidic: a Jewish religious group
Shtibl: means little house/room used for Jewish communal
Shekinah: glory of a/the divine presence
Maimonides: was a prolific and influential scholar in the Middle Ages.

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The German where extremely cruel and violent towards the Jewish people. They also used the fear of them walking extremely close to the chambers to make them feel grateful they lived. Along with this with how the Jews felt when they were going to the Auschwitz (which they didn’t know at first) they all were slowly going mad from being in such a small space and the old woman who went insane wasn’t helping any. While not all the Nazis were cruel there were still many who followed the ideas to the letter and actually believed the Jews to be lesser. Along with this they would also let outsiders visit which surprised me. I’m also surprised that with how many Jews there were that they didn’t just try to overwhelm the Nazi troops.

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Simile: “we mustn’t give up hope, even now as the sword hangs over our heads. So taught our sages...” (31)
Simile: “In one terrifying moment of lucidity, Ithought of us as damned souls wandering through the void, souls condemned to wander through space until the end of time, seeking redemption, seeking oblivion, without any hope of finding either.” (36)

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Elie finds out by discussing with Moishe that they already have all the answers just that they don’t know how to understand them and that asking questions is a good thing.
All the Jews wanted to wait to eat until after the prayer on the last day of the year to eat.
Elie no longer believes in his god
Akiba lost all his faith and strength to keep on living.

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Is very realist and also is a person who doesn’t sugar coat anything. He’s a strong leader who can hide his emotions well. He is very wise and many come to him for answers. He was in so much fear at the Auschwitz that it seemed like his eyes were vailed over. Managed to make it past the second session of being chosen to die and during the evacuation run was out of breath and strength. Became very ill with dysentery, and was later sent to the furnaces and was killed.

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Blockälteste: the person in charge of a cell block in a concentration camp.
Inhibitions: restraints, hold backs
Hermetically: completely airtight

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Although the Jews had a terrible life in the camps, elie stayed in one of the better camps. The Germans would also treat the Jews kind if they helped them by giving them extra food. Also some of the Germans would also treat the Jews in humane ways that would often get them in trouble. It’s also surprising that the Germans could figure out who was Jewish even if they tried to hide it. It was also extremely surprising that none of the Jews were killed in the air raid, or atleast  the ones important to elie.

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Simile: “He threw himself on me like a wildbeast, beating me...” (53)
Simile: “His voice was calm and reached me as through a thick wall” (58)

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Elie had his right foot filled with pus and had the sac cut open before he needed his leg amputated.
Many of the Jews were starving so much that a worker through one slice of bread in the car and the Jews were fighting over it.
Many of the Jews were starving waiting for the train and swallowed all the bread they were given, and ate the snow off eachother  get rid of their thirst.

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Poor, shy?, awkward, weak, makes himself invisible, not entirely sane, rambles off religious things, wise, teacher, kind, philosophical,

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Untenable: unbearable

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I was surprised at how easy that the Jews could obtain information about how the war was going. I was also surprised that the Germans would force the Jews to clean the blocks before they’d evacuate for the liberation army. It was also strange that they’d leave some of their medical teams to be captured by the Russians. I’m also not sure why though they didn’t try to insulate the cattle cars so that more Jews could survive the trip to continue their work in the camps.

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“He was doomed from the start, offering his neck to the executioner, as it were.” (77)

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Elie isn’t sure why they pray or why they cry when they pray.
Elie is up set because they couldn’t find a master Sighet in Zohar.
Schächter was beginning to go insane from being separated from her sons.
Elie is fighting his instinct for self survival to help his father.

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Often gets lost in his kabbalistic dreams. He died in the second selection round

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I understood all of it

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I think it was surprising that the underground Jewish fighters waited so long to attack the camp. I also thought it was strange that they were planning on shooting the children but when they returned to their block they did nothing to them. I think it was stupid to that the Jewish combatants threw granades because they could’ve accidentally killed a few Jews. I also wonder though how the Jews had survived for so long without food, (six days).

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The road was endless. To allow oneself to be carried by the mob, to be swept away by blind fate. (87)
Simile: the snow seemed to me like a very soft, very warm carpet. (88)

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Jews would be forced to construct buildings, other camps and use heavy equipment.
The camp came under attack and was bombed.
They used electrified barbed wire to keep the Jews from escaping

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She was in her fifties and had a ten year old sun. She also has two other boys who were accidentally sent away with the first transport out of Sighet, which broke her heart. She was a quiet and tense woman. She began to go insane due to her suns being separated from her sons.

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Moishe the beatle is considered an out cast and is very poor so he is shunned in a way but since he doesn’t bother anyone they don’t bother him.
Elie’s father tries and mostly does drive out the idea of kabbalahaism from their town.
All foreign Jews were expelled from Sighet and because Moishe was foreign he had to leave.
The foreigners were forced into cattle cars to be taken to camps
Every Jew in Sighet was forced into ghettos before being shipped off to a labor camp.
The Nazis lied to all the Jews and forced them to work in their slave camps until they die and people at certain ages were killed due to them “not being useful”
The Jews were planning to revolt when they first arrived at the Auschwitz.
The Nazis were looking for people who had gold crowns or anything gold in their mouths then they would later have them removed.
The underground Jewish liberation army attacked the camp elie was in and at 6 that night they saw the first American tank at the gates of the camp.

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Was a well known violinist and was upset because the Jews weren’t allowed to play German music, he was upset because he loved Beethoven. He’s described as a pole with eyeglasses and a cynical smile on a pale face.
He also seemed respectful and caring.
In his dying moments played Beethoven and did this for everyone who was dead and dying.

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Their parents were killed in another camp and they became extremely close. They seemed to be rather friendly.

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Seemed like a typical SS officer andlooked like a cruel, though not unintelligent, face, complete with a monocle. He was also the one to decide where the new arrivals would go, to the rest of the camp or to be burned.

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Had fits of madness that made the Jews in the electrical work area scarred.
Had very terrible anger management skills, and would randomly go off.

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They killed all of the foreign Jews from Sighet and Moshie was barely able to escape.
Spring 1944 the Nazis we’re losing a lot of ground in Russia.
They also threw babies into the giant chambers in the Auschwitz.
They would trade Jewish children among the homo sexuals that lead the camp
Would force the other Jews to look at the one side they’d execute by hanging.
Forced the Jews to run and run with minimal nutrients and would shoot the ones who would slow down

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Had many lies fed to them and were slaughtered and used for target practice. Many of them were forced to build weapons, parts and equipment as slave labor for the Nazis.
Many children were traded through the concentration camps for the homosexual leaders.
The Jews were excited to finally escape the Nazis because the Russians were so close.
They’d be forced to run and run and if they had stopped for a second they’d be shot.
At one point when they were waiting for a train, they ate the bread and used spoons to eat the snow off eachothers  backs to get rid of their thirst.