Night Reading Questions

Question 1

What was Eliezer’s religious focus before the Holocaust?

Answer 1

To study and learn Kabbalah

Question 2

Kaddish

Answer 2

Prayer for the dead

Question 3

During the run what did Eliezer pray for?

Answer 3

That he would never leave his father.

Question 4

Yom Kippur

Answer 4

Jewish holiday. Jewish people were supposed to fast, but Eliezer didn’t.

Question 5

When did the locals throw bread to the prisoners in the cattle cars?

Answer 5

On the train ride to Buchenwald

Question 6

What happened at the evacuation at Buna?

Answer 6

Selection occured, and Eliezer’s father was to weak and sent to the left. Eliezer ran after him, and in the chaos him and his father switched to the right.

Question 7

Where was Elie Wiesel born?

Answer 7

Sighet, Romania on September 30, 1928

Question 8

What did Wiesel study?

Answer 8

Jewish texts such as the Torah, Talmud, and Cabbala

Question 9

Nuremburg Laws

Answer 9

Hitler’s way to dehumanize and cause prejudice against Jews.

Question 10

How old was Weisel when he was deported

Answer 10

15

Question 11

Final Solution

Answer 11

Hitler’s plan to systematically exterminate all Jews- Greatest genocide known to man

Question 12

What was the deadliest camp?

Answer 12

Auschwitz - killed over 1.3 million people