Night Chapters 4-6 Review Flashcards
Zalman
Fellow prisoner, is trampled to death during the run to gleiwitz
Who is Juliek?
a young man from Warsaw (Poland) who played the violin in the buna band where Elie met him. Later was transported with Elie to Buchenwald but dies en route in the barracks at Gleiwitz. The night he dies he plays the violin
Rabbi Eliahou
Devout Jewish prisoner whose son abandons him. Elie prays that he will never behave as Rabbi Eliahou’s son behaves
Akiba Drummer
A Jewish Holocaust victim who gradually loses his faith in God as a result of his expreiences in the concentration camp
Yossi
- Friend of Elie’s in Buna
- has a brother named tibi
- from Czechoslovakia
- helped reassure Elie after his father went through the selection
The pipel
- son of a dutch oberkapo
- beloved by all
- stuck in solitary confinement and was tortured but remained silent about electrical plant incident
- condemned to death
- took 30 minutes to die, lingering between life and death
idek
- Elie’s kapo at the electrical equipment warehouse in Buna
- had fits of madness, beat Elie in one
- Elie caught him with a young polish girl
Franek
- Elie’s foreman at Buna
- notices Elie’s gold tooth and gets a dentist to take it out with a rusty spoon
- knew elie’s weakness and beat his father to get the tooth
How long was the forced march?
20 kilometers; 12.4 miles (87)
Plot is the chain/sequence of events
- Idek beats Elie
- Everyone asks where is God
- The forced march
- The prisoners were in Gleiwitz
In the situation of the young pipel who is also hanged on the gallows. Why is this a turning point for Elie? Who else does he figuratively see hanging on the gallows
God. It was a turning point because Elie felt that God was not with them, He was not helping them, he was dead
Holocaust
1939-1945
1.1 Million killed
Kaddish
hymn of praises to God found in the Jewish prayer service
Rosh Hashanah
The Jewish New Year
Yom Kippur
The Day of Atonement, 10 days after Rosh Hashanah, day of fasting
