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Why is it important to remember and tell stories of conflict and adversary?

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Why is it important to remember and tell stories of conflict and adversary?

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How can learning about multiple viewpoints and perspectives help others face and overcome adversity?

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How can learning about multiple viewpoints and perspectives help others face and overcome adversity?

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A ceremonial officer of a church, college, or similar institution.

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The ancient Jewish tradition of mystical interpretation of the Bible.

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A Jewish sect founded upon mysticism, prayer, ritual strictness, religious zeal, and joy.

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A biblical figure who questioned why the just must suffer while the wicked flourish.

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Jewish prayer for the dead.

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Jewish philosopher.

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savior sent by God to lead the Jews to freedom.

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A Jewish festival celebrating the exodus of the Israelites from egypt.

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Ancient homeland of the Jews

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Jewish new year.

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A movement to create a Jewish homeland in Palestine.

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Hitlers secret police.

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A member of a political party who supports extreme nationalism and a dictator.

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Jewish house of worship.

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A poor homeless man who was somewhat of a philosopher.

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He was taken away because he was a foreigner. He sees the other jews be murdered but he survived.

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They didn't believe him.

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The Germans arrived.

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How did Elie and the other Jews lose their rights?

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How did Elie and the other Jews lose their rights?

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They took all of the Jews valuables, restricted travel,  forced to wear a yellow star, and sent the jews to ghettos.

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Why and how did they stay so optimistic? What truths did they ignore?

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Why and how did they stay so optimistic? What truths did they ignore?

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They refused to believe the news they heard and dismissed it as rumors.

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The train conditions were awful and everyone was hungry and thirsty.

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"Our eyes opened. Too late." This is the moment when the jews on the car finally realized that they were in deep trouble. they dismissed all  of the signs that warned them of the trouble they were in. By this point they were trapped on a cattle car in a foreign country. They were almost hopeless by this point.

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The jews were forced to wear a yellow star but didn't think too much of it because the germans were only slowly taking away their rights. Soon after this they were forced into ghettos and were no longer allowed to go to the synagogue. It was one rule after another that led eventually to the concentration camps.

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The jews were stuffed onto cattle cars as if they were livestock. The conditions were terrible. Each car was only given a bucket of water and bread. Everyone was hungry and thirsty. They were so crowded that not everyone could lie down at once.

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"Even I did not believe him." The main character says this about Moshe the Beadle who tried to warn them about the atrocities that were being committed against the jews. However, no one wanted to believe him so they ignored the news and shrugged it off as rumors.

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The womans visions of fire were a warning of what is to come.
Although everyone thought she was crazy, when they arrived at the camp they realized that she was right. Fire was in the future for the Jews on that train.

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I believe that the germans were very good at seeming like good people to the jews. They made the jews feel as though nothing bad was happening to them and that everything they were being put through was only temporary.

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Elie has changed since the beginning of the story. At the beginning he was horrified by the pain he saw the jews go through when the germans came and rounded them up. However, now he barely flinches as he sees his father get beaten. From the suffering he has seen he has become indifferent to suffering as though it is normal now.

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Even as he walked toward the fire, Elie had hope. Every logical thought he had told him to attempt to run and kill himself rather than be burned. However, he came within 3 steps of the fire and did nothing. He couldn't believe that it was happening so he couldn't react. He also didn't react because he had hope that it wasn't true and that he wasn't about to die. His hope turned true because he survived the experience.

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The polish guard was the only one in the camp who treated them as human. He instructed them that the only way to survive was to keep hope. Those who lost hope couldn't go on. The guard was then fired for being too humane because the germans wanted the jews to be treated as animals.

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He now has become accustomed to to pain and suffering.

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What is the irony of the gate that says Arbeit Mach Frei?

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What is the irony of the gate that says Arbeit Mach Frei?

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The sign means "work makes you free" which in reality working for the germans; you are a prisoner.

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Camp Buna.

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What were the objectives of the medical examinations?

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What were the objectives of the medical examinations?

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They were looking for gold teeth. They also were sorting out the healthy to be used for hard or specialized work.

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Why were the Jewish musicians not allowed to play music by Beethoven.

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Why were the Jewish musicians not allowed to play music by Beethoven.

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They were not allowed to play German music because they were not worthy to play it.

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How did Elie initially avoid losing his gold crown?

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How did Elie initially avoid losing his gold crown?

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Elie said that he was sick and later came back on his own and said he was sick again.

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The camp was on alert and most of the guards left. There was a man who tried to steal soup and was shot by the remaining guards and left there.

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During the preliminary "ceremonies" for a hanging, what did Juliek whisper to Elie? What does this suggest?

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During the preliminary "ceremonies" for a hanging, what did Juliek whisper to Elie? What does this suggest?

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He said he wanted the ceremony to be over so that he could eat sooner. This suggests that he has become numbed to the death and punishment of other prisoners.

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During one hanging, Elie and the other prisoners cried. What mad this hanging different from the others?

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During one hanging, Elie and the other prisoners cried. What mad this hanging different from the others?

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This prisoner that was hung was a child. They were disgusted by the torment of this child because he did not die immediately and suffered for a time on the gallows before dying.

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He has an infected foot. When in the infirmary he gains hope because the doctor is a jew who treats him like a real person and not an animal. Conditions in the infirmary are much better than in the camp but he is told that selections happen more often and debates whether to stay or not.

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What big decision does Elie have to make.... what is decided? Why? 

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What big decision does Elie have to make.... what is decided? Why? 

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Elie has the option to stay in the infirmary or to be evacuated with the rest of the prisoners. He stays with his father and his father decides to be evacuated. His father makes this decision because there were rumors that all the jews in the infirmary would be killed after evacuation and that the camp would be blown up.

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Chapter 5 helps solidify the idea that those who lose hope do not survive. Abika's story is an example of this. He lost his faith and he could not go on.

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What as Abika lost? What was the result?

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What as Abika lost? What was the result?

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Akiba lost hope and his faith. After he lost this he lost the will to continue. Without hope to keep him going he was driven crazy because he knew he would be taken out in the next selection.

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Elie had many near death experiences in this chapter. He almost succumbed because he wanted all of the pain and suffering to go away. But then he remembered his father, he didn't want to let his father be alone in the struggle. Elie fought to stay alive not for his future but for his father. Complaining was something he could do later so he simply continued on. He refused to die because he wanted to be there for his father.

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Where did Elie arrive at the end of this chapter?

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Where did Elie arrive at the end of this chapter?

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Elie had arrived at camp Buchenwald.

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In chapter 7 Elie describes what happens when their train passed through german towns. German workers throw bread at the train in hopes of seeing the jews fight over it. The jews were so hungary by this point that a boy killed is own father for a small piece of bread. Elie describes them as wild animals fighting over a kill.

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During chapter 8 Elie's father is sick with dysentery. Elie tries again and again to try to help his father but to no avail. His father is dying and all he can do is comfort him in his death. Elie began to think about how his fathers death would take a burden off his shoulders and feels extremely guilty at the thought.

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Elie mentions the specific day his father died. January 28, 1945. He memorized this day because he will never forget the pain he felt and the guilt because he hadn't done more to help his father.

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Throughout chapter 9 Elie speaks as though he was outside looking in. After the death of his father nothing else seemed important to him. He barely spoke about the 2 months that he spent in Buchenwald and gave a very brief description of being liberated. The difference between him at the beginning and the end of the book both mentally and physically. At the very end of the book he looks himself in the mirror for the first time since being imprisoned. He described what he saw in the mirror as a corpse that stood there contemplating him with glazed over eyes.