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People Places and Things
Question | Answer |
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Elie (Elieazer) Wiesel | author of Night and survivor of Auschwitz |
Moishe the Beadle | older man who studied with Elie and tried to warn the Jews of Sighet |
Wiesel Family | Elie's mother and father and 3 sisters, |
Maria | Wiesel family maid who wanted to hide them |
Mrs. Schacter | woman in the cattle car who kept seeing a fire |
Dr. Mengele | "The Angel Of Death" |
Gestapo | German Police German Police |
SS | German special units who ruled the camps |
Sighet, Hungary | hometown of of Elie and his family |
Ghetto | segregated part of Sighet where Jews were forced to live |
Kaschau | small town on the Czech border where Elie's train first stopped |
Auschwitz | large concentration camp where Elie and family were taken ( Mother and 2 sisters war killed there) |
Birkenau | concentration camp near Auschwitz |
Russian Front | the area where the fighting was taking place between the Russians and Germans |
Red Army | Russian Army |
selection | the process by which inmates are chosen to either live or die |
front | place where fighting occurs |