Night Test Chapter 4-9 Flashcards
Prejudice
“pre-judging” based on someone else’s experience
Gestapo
Nazi secret police
Scapegoat
someone who takes the blame for others actions
Genocide
The mass killing of a targeted group
Stereotype
an oversimplified image or idea of a group of people
S.S.
The Nazi guard
Nazi
“National Socialist German Workers’ Party” a political party lead by Nazi
Anti-Semitism
A hatred towards Jews
Kapo
A block leader
Holocaust
The systemic, brueatic mass anhiliation of 6 million Jews during the third Nazi regime from 1933-1945.
Sonderkommando
A Jew forced to work against their fellow Jews
Discrimation
treating people differently (insulting them to taking away their right)
Elie Wiesel
Protagonist, writer, 15-year-old boy
Mr. Wiesel
Elie Wiesel’s father (store owner)
Juliek
A young man from Warsaw who played the violin
Zalmen
A worker in the eletrical warehouse immersion in the Talmud helps him escape reality (trampled to death)
Rabbi Eliahou
A devout Jewish prisoner whose son abandons him in one of many instances in Night of a son behaving cruelly toward his father
Akiba Drumer
a singer with a deep, soulful voice who inspires the other inmates in the concentration camps with his traditional Hasidic songs
Idek
one of the Kapos and in charge of the narrator of the book, Eliezer (likes kids, whips Elie because he catches him)
tall, defiant teen
“My curse on Germany!” (is hanged, Elie’s age)
Silence in suffering
The world remained silent during the Holocaust
Role Reversal
The father and son role with Elie and his father are reversing as Elie begins to have to take responiblity.
Loss of Idenitiy
Elie begins to lose his faith in God as he goes through this awful event
Loss of humanity
The prisoner’s humanity are taken away as they’re heads are shaved, they’re names are replaced by numbers
