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Night Test
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English
9th Grade
03/16/2009

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Elie's hometown; in Transylvania
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Sighet
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1st camp he attended
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Birkenau
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2nd camp he attended; worst camp; death camp-main processing camp
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Auschwitz
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3rd camp he attended; good camp; factory, work camp
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Buna
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4th camp he attended; march
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Gleiwitz
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5th camp he attended; got liberated from here; dad died here
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Buchenwald
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Elie's father
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Chlomo
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German police
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Gestapo
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Son who killed father for piece of bread and then gets killed
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Meir Katz
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Annual day of fasting; in fall; most important religious holiday; DAY OF ATONEMENT
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Yom Kippur
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Brothers from Czechoslovakia
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Tibi/Yossi
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Polish foreman in Buna; wanted Elie's gold tooth
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Franek
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Ancient prayer for dead in Aramaic language
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Kaddish
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Victim of the selection; very religious and told everyone to keep believing but then he lost his faith.
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Akiba Drummer
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Americans liberated Buchenwald
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April 11, 1945
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The symbol of a man who had amazing patience with G-d.
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Job
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Prisoners who cooperated with the SS in disciplining their fellow prisoners in the blocks.
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Kapo
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Angel of Death; Decided upon looks if you will live or die
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Dr. Mengle
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Young Polish man; Worked in an electrical warehouse at Buna; always prayed; got cramp while running and fell and everyone trampled over him
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Zalman
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Pole; Musician
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Juliek
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Jewish New Year in Hebrew month of Tishri.
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Rosh Hashanah
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Kappo at Buna; Guy who Elie say having the affair with the woman and then gets whipped by him
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Idek
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A compilation of Jewish oral law accompanied by a vast literature of rabbinic commentary; Sacred text studied by adult Jews
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Talmud
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Can see into the future and tells everyone bad things to happen but no one believes her, ex. Madame Schacter(Fire)
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Cassandra
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Worked at a Hasidic synagogue; Quiet but respected by all; warned people about the concentration camp
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Moshe the Beadle
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book starts and when Nazi's invade the Soviet Union; D-Day
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1941, 1944
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Crazy lady; "Fire"; had baby; literary illusion= Cassandra
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Madame Schacter
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Talked to himself about G-d; looks for his son; abandoned by son
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Rabbi Eliahou
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Only son; 3rd oldest; Narrator
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Elie
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Oldest; Daughter
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Hilda
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2nd oldest child; Daughter
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Bea
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Youngest of the children; Daughter; 7 years old when taken
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Tzipora
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