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The Night Help Page |
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Items Available:
Crossword Puzzles (Vocabulary)
Pictures Website of Auschwitz and Birkenau
Character List and Identifications
Vocabulary Words
Elie Wiesel Bio |
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1. Vocabulary Crossword #1 (Puzzle and Clues)
2. Vocabulary Crossword #2 (Puzzle and Clues)
3. Vocabulary Crossword #3 (Puzzle and Clues)
4. Vocabulary Crossword #4 (Puzzle and Clues)
Elie Wiesel at the beginning of the memoir |
Buchenwald after the liberation (Elie is circled) |
The same picture as the previous one but blown up a bit with clarity |
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Elie with his two older sisters |
Elie with his younger sister and his mother |
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Bodies piled at Buchenwald |
A crematorium |
A line up (sometimes in "fours" or "fives" and so on) |
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SS officers inspect a camp |
A concentration camp |
Children at Dachau |
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Study Help:
Basic Identifications:
Elie Wiesel Chlomo Wiesel Moche the Beadle Madame Schachter Akibe Drumer Franek Tzipora Wiesel Buna Gleiwitz the hanging boy |
Rabbi Eliahou Juliek Idek Sighet Gestapo selection air raid Buchenwald flame imagery the Kaddish |
Kapos the SS the yellow star of David Auschwitz Birkenau French girl in the subway the Red Army liberation night and its literary usage |
Questions to Consider:
1. What is the effect and the purpose(s) of the rare occasions when Elie discusses events occurring after the war?
2. How do prisoners reveal their dignity in face such inhumane treatment? What effect does this have?
3. How does Elie faith, his relationship with God, change throughout the memoir?
4. Explain the lessons presented in Night. How can they be applied to today's society?
5. Which position, self-interest or assisting one another, is the most effective means of surviving in this memoir? How do you know?
6. Connect the themes or characters of this memoir to another major work read in class? Explain each idea fully.
1. Hasidic (adj) a Jewish sect of mystics who believe in a joyful worship of God
2. synagogue (n) a building used by Jewish people for religious study and worship
3. cabbala (n) an occult Jewish philosophy based on a mystical interpretation of the Scriptures
4. Talmud (n) a book of detailed expositions and interpretations of Hebrew scriptures (Jewish law)
5. Gestapo (n) the secret police force of the German Nazis
6. lorries (n) trucks
7. rabbi (n) a scholar and teacher of Jewish law; a Jewish spiritual leader
8. Zionism (n) formerly, a movement for reestablishment of a Jewish state; now, a movement supporting the Jewish state of Israel
9. emigration (n) the act of leaving one country or region to settle in another
10. billet (v) to lodge; to house
11. Passover (n) a Jewish holiday celebrating the deliverance of the Hebrews from slavery in Egypt
12. treatise (n) a formal article or book on a particular subject
13. expound (v) to state in detail; to explain
14. edict (n) an official public proclamation or order issued by an authority
15. phylacteries (n) small cases holding copies of passages from Scripture worn on the forehead and left arm during weekday morning prayers
16. truncheon (n) a short, thick club
17. compatriot (n) a fellow countryman
18. guerilla (n) a soldier, often a volunteer, who makes surprise attacks and raids behind enemy lines
19. expulsion (n) a driving out, especially by force
20. pillage (v) to loot; to rob of property
21. constraint (n) restriction, especially of feelings and behaviors
22. hermetically (adv) in an airtight way
23. SS (n) abbreviation of Schutzstaffel, a military-style unit of the Nazi party that acted as a special police force
24. incite (v) to urge to act; to provoke
25. unremittingly (adv) constantly; without interruption
26. nocturnal (adj) of or happening during the night
27. bestial (adj) like a beast; cruel and savage
28. lucid (adj) clearheaded; rational; understanding
29. oblivion (n) a state of being completely forgotten
30. harangued (v) scolded, especially in a noisy and bullying way
31. Kapos (n) Nazi concentration camp prisoners who were given special privileges in return for supervising other prisoners
32. compulsory (adj) required; that which must be done
33. wizened (adj) shriveled; dried up
34. blandishment (n) a flattering remark that is meant to be persuasive
35. sanctity (n) holiness; sacredness
36. numerology (n) an occult system, built around numbers, of foretelling the future or exploring the unknown
37. reprieve (n) a postponement of punishment; a temporary relief
38. Aryan (n) a term used by the Nazis to mean a Caucasian person of non-Jewish lineage
39. raucous (adj) loud and rough-sounding; hoarse
40. Rosh Hashanah (n) the Jewish New Year, the spiritual new year whose observances include special prayers and religious rituals
41. benediction (n) a formal blessing; an act of calling upon God during a religious service
42. implore (v) to beg; to beseech; to plead sincerely
43. lamentation (n) an expression of grief or sadness
44. Yom Kippur (n) the holiest day in the Jewish calendar, the Day of Atonement, a day of fasting and prayer for forgiveness
45. interminable (adj) endless or seeming to be endless
46. emaciated (adj) abnormally thin, especially due to starvation or disease
47. meager (adj) of small quantity; not adequate
48. crucible (n) a severe test or trial
49. sage (n) a person who is very wise, especially as a result of age and experience
50. Calvary (n) literally, the place near Jerusalem where Jesus was crucified; often used to mean an experience of intense agony or grief
51. derision (n) scorn; ridicule
52. dysentery (n) intestinal inflammation causing abnormal pain and diarrhea (can be fatal)
53. Red Army (n) the regular army of the Soviet Union
54. annihilate (v) to destroy completely; to exterminate
55. summarily (adv) promptly and without formality
56. mountebank (n) a fake; a charlatan; a trickster
57. indeterminate (adj) indefinite; vague; subtle
58. encumbrance (n) a burden; an obstacle
59. apathy (n) a lack of interest or emotion; indifference
60. inert (adj) motionless; lacking the ability to move or act
1 - http://www.teachnet-lab.org/FKLANE/pmaslow/night.jpg
2 - http://www.chipublib.org/003cpl/onebook_night/images/elie_15.jpg
3 - http://lakerlife.blogspirit.com/images/medium_elie.4.jpg
4 - http://lakerlife.blogspirit.com/images/medium_elie.4.jpg
5 - http://www.pbs.org/eliewiesel/images/wieselsisters.jpg
6 - http://www.scetv.org/about_etv/pressroom/highlights/2005/apr/images/ElieWiesel.jpg
7 - http://pard.technion.ac.il/update/honorary2005/Prof.%20Elie%20Wiesel.jpg
8 - http://fashiontribes.typepad.com/main/images/elie.jpg
9 - http://facultyfiles.deanza.edu/images/fostern/buchenwald1.jpg
10 - http://www.uiowa.edu/policult/assets/postWWII_holocaust/crematorium.jpg
11 - http://www.wikinfo.org/upload/1/1f/Holocaust.jpg
12 - http://www.justinspratt.com/photos/berlin/miler_incpects_camp.jpg
13 - http://www.hgitner.com/img/pris/camp.gif
14 - http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/holocaust/images/time45_03_dachau.jpg
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