Night test (matching)

Match the following.

• Elie Wiesel

• "The yellow star? Oh well, what of it? You don't die of it..."

• Chlomo Wiesel

• "Never shall forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed...Never shall I forget those moments which murdered my God and my sould and turned my dreams to dust. Never shall I forget these things, even if I am condemned to live as long as God Himself. Never."

• Moishe the Beadle

• "I wanted to come back to Sighet to tell you the story of my death. So that you could prepare yoruselves while there was still time. To live? I don't attach any importance to my life anyore. I'm alone. No, I wanted to come back, and to warn you. And see how it is, no one will listen to me..."

Match the following

• dysentery

• This fascinated Elie during the evacuation.

• fast

• Chlomo Wiesel, Elie's father, dies of this.

• dying

• The men did this before they evacuated.

• bread

• People threw some into the open train cars.

• clean

• Elie did not do this for Yom Kippur.

Match the following

• soup

• Once it tasted like corpses.

• ghettos

• It was the gravest danger in the camps.

• selection

• It was crushed when Juliek died.

• Kapos

• a Jewish inmate in a concentration camp who was forced to be a guard for the Nazis

• violin

• Two were set up in Sighet.

Match the following

• Idek

• Woman who had visions of the furnace fire

• Chlomo Wiesel

• Died at Buchenwald

• Madam Schachter

• Rabbi, who searched for his son

• Eliahou

• Survived to tell the story of the concentration camps

• Elie Wiesel

• Kapo, who had bouts of madness

Match the following

• Anti-Semitism

• Notorious (well-known) doctor who supervised selections

• Mengele

• prejudice against the Jewish people

• Kaddish

• Jewish prayer for the dead

• Gestapo

• Elie Wiesel's birthplace

• Sighet

• a terrorist secret-police organzation

Match the following

• Stein of Antwerp

• Eliezer's younger sister

• Akiba Drumer

• Great Britain, U.S., France, USSR, Australia, etc.

• Juliek

• Played Beethoven for the dying men

• Allies

  (friends)

• The distant relative that Eliezer meets at Birkenau

• Tzipora

• the man who the men forgot to say the Kaddish (their prayer) for

Match the following

• Axis Powers

  (enemies)

• a Jewish mysticism belief

• Hitler

• Germany, Italy, Japan, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria

• Talmud

• the Jewish oral law

• Kabbalah

• a concentration camp

• Auschwitz

• German politician and leader against all Jews

Match the following

• Blockateste

• the building where a Jewish assembly meets for religious worship (where they pray)

• Kommando

• a Jewish scholar or teacher

• Synagogue

• the organization of slave laborers in the concentration camps

• Rabbi

• a leader of a concentration camp or barrack

• Fascists

• people who organize a government that is ruled by a dictator who controls their everyday lives (like Hitler)

Match the following

• Madam Schachter

• "The only thing that keeps me alive is to know that Reizel and the little ones are still alive. We're it not for them, I would give up."

• Stein

• "Fire! I see a fire!"

• Elie

• "Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed...Never shall I forget those moments which murdered my God and my should and turned my dreams to dust. Never shall I forget these things, even if I am condemned to live as long as God Himself. Never."