Infamous word repeated by Elie describing his first night in the concentration camp
Saturday - the Jewish day of rest - when they were to the cattle cars
"Yisgadal, veyiskadiash, shmey raba..." Prayer for the dead
Elie's father gives him a knife and spoon
Used to shave the bodies and heads of the Jews
All Jews had to wear a yellow star within one week of the German takeover in Sighet
Secrets of Jewish mysticism
Last word Elie heard his father speak
Process where Jews were chosen to be killed and placed in crematories
Party affiliation of Hitler, the German leader
A Kapo who often had fits of madness
Very soft, very warm carpet
First concentration camp that Elie and his family arrived
Yom Kippur - The Day of Atonement where Jews practiced this
Sip from the cauldron showed gratitude of a "wounded animal?"
...an assassin's face, fleshy lips, hands resembling a wolf's paw
Tears like drops of wax flowed from his eyes
"Fire! I see a fire! I see a fire!"
According to Elie: "It suffocated me; it suck to me like glue."
Inmates who were given authority to handle the Jewish prisoners
Violinist from Warsaw who played in the Buna orchestra and finally gets to play Beethoven
"Like an injection of morphine."
Second concentration camp for Elie and his father which looked "empty and dead"