Lacey+Tatro

= ﻿Night = =**VOCAB March 17, 2011 pages 1-7 Entry 1**=

**Zohar- a medieval mystical work, consisting cheifly of interpitations of and commentaries on the Pentateuch**

 * surname- the name that a person has in common with other family members, as distinguished from a Christian name or given name; family name**

**SUMMARY**
====**My first section was mostly about introducing the real life people: Elie, who wrote the book, his sisters Hilda, Bea, and Tzipora, his parents, and Moshe the Beadle. This section was all about Elie wanting to study the cabbla, the Zohar, and mysticism. Since his father won't teach him he decides to find himself one, he finds Moshe the Beadle. After much teachings Moshe is taken because he is a foriegn Jew. The people of Sighet thought they were fine and nothing happened to him and any other foriegn Jews. They were wrong. Moshe was able to escape because of a leg injury which the people who took him away ment he was dead. Since he was able to escape he told of the horrors he saw. No one in the town believed him.... So they soon found out that Budapest was being attacked by Fascists. They were attacking Jewish shops and synagogues. No one thought they would get to Sighet. Three days passed and there were German war cars in the streets!**==== =**VOCAB March 23, 2011 pages 7-14 Entry 2**= ====**passover- Also called Pesah,  a Jewish festival that commemorates the exodus of the Jews from egypt and is marked chiefly by the seder ritual and the eating of matzoth. It begins on the 14th day of Nisan and is celebrated for eight days by Orthodox and conservative Jews outside of Israel and for seven days by Reform Jews and Jews in Israel. **====

**﻿SUMMARY**
====﻿I**n this section I covered here is what happened. They Nazis came and they seemed polite at first. Then they pushed every Jew into a ghetto. The whole town were freaked out. Then it happened, deportatron. All Jews were going to be deported. They were forced to bring any belonings they could carry. Then they were forced to stand in a line for role call. Children cried for water because it was so hot outside. No one could leave their posts. Yet Jewish Police men were able to get them water. Not everyone got water though.**====

= VOCAB March 24, 2011 pages 14-20 Entry 3 =

**﻿SUMMARY**
====**In this section the boy, his parents, and siblings are moved to an even smaller ghetto. They are living in there uncle's old house. Every one has been taken already. The boy and his family are extremely scared. All the people around him are being taken away, but where. He doesn't know. None of his family no. No one knows there fate.**==== =VOCAB April 4, 2011 pages 21-27 Entry 4=
 * constraint- limitation or restriction **
 * provisions- the providing or supplying of something, especially of food or other necessities **
 * hermetically- so as to be airtight **
 * console- to alleviate or lessen the grief, sorrow, or disappointment of; give solace or comfort **
 * scouring- to clear or rid of what is undesirable **

=﻿**VOCAB April 6, 2011 pages 27-35 Entry 5**=
 * SUMMARY**
 * In this section it goes more indepth to what happened on the train. All were starving and thirsty. They were all packed in one car like sardines. One women was screaming fire o the burning furnaces. O Jews listen to me can't you see the flames? The young men always tied her up and gagged her. They also would beat her into silence. This went on every night. She would point in the darkness and scream fire. Even though there wasn't. They soon arrived at Birkenau, the reception center for Auschwitz.**
 * barracks- a building or group of buildings used to accommodate military personnel **
 * redemption- an act of redeeming or the state of being redeemed**
 * lucidity- easily understood; completely intelligible or comprehensible **
 * crematories- a place, as a funeral establishment, at which cremation is done.**
 * Angle of Death- (in Jewish and Islamic angelology) the angel who separates the soul from the body at the moment of death **

SUMMARY
=**VOCAB April 11, 2011 pages 35 -40 Entry 6**= **well-lad- // Informal //. a familiar or affectionate term of address for a man;** **chap**. gallows- a wooden frame, consisting of a crossbeam on two uprights, on which condemned persons are executed by hanging **benediction- an utterance of good wishes ** **tempest- a violent commotion, disturbance, or tumult ** **crucible- a container of metal or refractory material employed for heating substances to high temperatures ** **feeble- physically weak, as from age or sickness; frail ** **morale- emotional or mental condition with respect to cheerfulness ** **calvary- Golgotha, the place where Jesus was crucified ** **trodded- to set down the foot or feet in walking; step; walk ** **monochrome- state or condition of being painted, decorated ** **reel- reel off,  to say, write, or produce quickly and easily ** ** SUMMARY ** ** They are forced to march out of the camp. Instead of staying back on his bad foot Elie decided to leave on the march with his father. They run and run. People yell and then shoot you if you don't run fast enough. They stopped at an abandonded town and Elie and his father take turns sleeping but both of them can't seem to sleep or stay awake without the other's kind words. **
 * They are taken to Birkenau and seperated. Then told where to go left or right. After that Elie and his father think they are about to be cremated but aren't. After no food, sleeping standing up, and the pain of not knowing what has happened to the rest of their family they are moved. They move form the reception center to Auschwitz.**
 * caress- an act or gesture expressing affection, as an embrace or kiss, especially a light stroking or touching. **
 * Kapo- a Nazi concentration camp prisoner who was given privileges in return for supervising prisoner work gangs: often a common criminal and frequently brutal to fellow inmates. **
 * reckoning- count; computation; calculation **
 * oppressive- burdensome, unjustly harsh, or tyrannical **
 * haragued- a scolding or a long or intense verbal attack **
 * SUMMARY **
 * They have now been sent to Auschwitz. First impressions are that is a little nicer than Birkenau. It had a few flower gardens here and there and had cement barraks instead of wooden ones. Some Kapo are nice. Each prisoners name is taken away and instead have a letter and number engraved into it. Elie's was A-7713. Small food rations and other conditions weren't as bad. In the morinings were washed, given black coffe, and left block around 10 a.m. At noon they were given a thick soup. 6 p.m. role call then bread with margine. By 9 p.m. they were in bead and asleep. **
 * VOCAB April 11, 2011 pages 40-49 Entry 7 **
 * well-built- having a good physique or figure **
 * blandishments- Often,  blandishments.   something, as an action or speech, that tends to flatter, coax, entice, etc.: // Our blandishments left him unmoved. We succumbed to // //the// // blandishments of tropical living //  **
 * quarantine- a strict isolation imposed to prevent the spread of disease **
 * meisler- care taker **
 * SUMMARY **
 * The father and son are now moved once again to a new camp. The conditions are better but it turns out that there are petifles around. Elie is young and is skin and bones already. The father also isn't in great condition either. Also they have just found a cousin of theirs and are thankful to see someone who is related to them. They also are extremely scared that their families are dead and they have no idea. I am very scared for the families. It also sucks because by reading the back I know he whitnesses his family's deaths. Still waiting for that. I hope i will be prepared but I know i would be scared if that were to happen to me. **
 * VOCAB April 13, 2011 pages 49-56 Entry 8**
 * queue- a file or line, especially of people waiting their turn **
 * reprieve- to relieve temporarily from any evil **
 * clout- a blow, especially with the hand **
 * ceaselessly- without stop or pause; unending; incessant **
 * Jewess- a Jewish girl or woman **
 * SUMMARY **
 * Elie was asked to get his gold crown removed but said he was "sick". He went to the dentist at least 3 times and each time said i am sick and the dentist said fine come back when you feel better. Before he could come back before he felt "better" the dentist, who was a prisoner, was hanged. Later Franek, one of the prison leaders, wanted his gold crown. He said if A-7713 if you don't give me the crown you will regret it. Elie decided not to and so his father not Elie was beaten. So he gave the crown to Franek. For a while Franek gave Elie extra food but Poles were to be shipped off. Elie gave up his crown for nothing. Later Elie saw Idek, another prison leader, trying to "lay" with naked woman and Elie began to laugh. Elie was wipped 25 times and fainted during the last 5. Idek said to Elie that the first 25 were for his curiosity and he would get 5 more if he told anyone! Elie nodded and nodded and couldn't stop. Also before Idek would go on huge streaks of anger and beat Jews. Elie became one of his victims. After becoming striken with blood, a girl who he thought couldn't speak german told him to be quiet and to hold his anger in and save it for later after the war. He later met her again in the future and got to have lunch with her and stayed friends with her. **
 * VOCAB April 13,2011 pages 56-63 Enrty 9 **
 * writhed- to twist the body about, or squirm, as in pain, violent effort **
 * interlude- an intervening episode, period, space **
 * undertones- a low or subdued tone **
 * manacle- a shackle for the hand **
 * SUMMARY **
 * There was an air raid and they all sleep in their baracks for longer than usual. After that 4 people were hanged. They all had to look into their dead eyes. They even hanged a young boy. After the hanging of the little boy Elie said his soup tasted like dead courpses. **
 * VOCAB April 18, 2011 pages 63 - 70 Entry 10 **
 * Rosh Hashanah- the las day of the accursed year, New Years Eve **
 * prostrated- to cast (oneself) face down on the ground in humility, submission, or adoration. **
 * congregation- an assembly of persons brought together for common religious worship **
 * SUMMARY **
 * It is the end of the year and everyone is praying. Elie hs no wish to pray to a god that he thinks has given him nothing. He has lost all faith. Yet some haven't. After the new year begins they have an inspection. Those who passed lived. Those who didn't were thrown into the crematoriums. They were ordered to take off their clothes and run to Dr. Mengle. If you did not meet their physical standards for being alive you were sent to the crematoriums. Elie ran with all his might and passed. So did his Father. Even though happy his Father passed Elie still wishes to be free and have a world with no bells **
 * VOCAB April 20, 2011 pages 70-77 Entry 11 **
 * dysentery- an infectious disease marked by inflammation and ulceration of the lower part of the bowels, with diarrhea that becomes mucous and hemorrhagic **
 * SUMMARY **
 * After the test everything goes back to normal. Then a day afterwards the head of their block came with the list of numbers(names). People who had thought they had passed didn't and then Elie finds out. His father hasn't passed. Elie's father gives him his spoon and knife. The inheritance. Elie had to go to work while his dad stayed back. The ones who stayed back had one more chance. There was a final physical test. When Elie came back his father had passed and Elie gave him back the inheritance. After winter came Elie's foot had gone numb and he went to the doctor. They operated on his foot and there was a lot of puss in his heel and ball of his foot. After the operation he became aquainted with his roommate in the hospital. He said the only person he trusts now is Hitler because he is the only one keeping his promises to the Jews. After 2 weeks Elie's foot is better. There is a report that they have to leave this camp. Russians were invading. "When?" "Twomorrow evening." "Perhaps the Russians will arrive first." "Perhaps" **
 * They knew perfectly well that they would not. **
 * VOCAB April 22, 2011 Pages 77-86 Entry 12 **
 * knell- the sound made by a bell rung slowly, especially for a death or a funeral. **
 * automatons- **** a mechanical figure or contrivance constructed  **

** VOCAB April 25, 2011 Pages 86-95 Entry 13 ** **privations- lack of the usual comforts or necessaries of life ** ** prophet- a person who speaks for god or a deity, or by divine inspiration. ** ** concreto- a type of musical piece ** ** embarkation- the act, process, or an instance of embarking ** ** townships- a unit of local government, usually a subdivision of a county, found in most midwestern and northeastern states of the U.S. and in most Canadian provinces ** ** SUMMARY ** ** The march continues and still people are dying. They all are put at a depot and are waiting for a train. It takes at least 7 hours for the train to get there and they are all loaded on to cattle cars with no roofs. After some stops they unloaded dead bodies. At one stop they started to take Elies father but Elie slapped him to show he was still alive. His eyes slowly opened to show some life. At one stop they threw a piece of bread into one of the cars. The soldiers found the stamped like specticle to be very amusuing. **
 * VOCAB April 27, 2011 Pages 95-102 Entry 14**
 * tether-at the end of one's tether, at the end of one's resources,patcience, or strength   **
 * robust- strong healthy**
 * contagion- the communication of disease by direct or indirect contact**
 * hillock- a small hill**


 * SUMMARY**
 * Elie and his Father are in the train still. They tried moving to stay alive and they could hear a primal scream come from another car. A person had just died. The other people in all the open cars screamed in anguish. They all thought it was the end. They arrived at their destination very late at night. They were sent to the showers. They were at Buchenwald. They were actual showers not gas chambers thankfully. Elie's Father thinks about just lying in the snow to take a nap. Elie knows that if he were to take a nap he would never wake up. The next morning Elie and his Father are both still alive. The leaders of the camps need to clean out the barracks. The sick needed to stay inside so Father stayed. When Elie came back his Father had not been fed because the leaders didn't think he deserved to live if he was sick. They said he would die anyway. So Elie gave him some of his soup. They are both scared.**
 * VOCAB April 27,2011 Pages 102- The End 109 Final Entry #15**
 * dysentery- an infectious disease marked by inflammation and ulceration of the lower part of the bowels, with diarrhea that becomes mucous and hemorrhagic**
 * spasmodically- pertaining to or of the nature of a spasm; characterized by spasms. **
 * idleness- not working or active **
 * liberation- the act or fact of gaining equal rights or full social or economic opportunities for a particular group**
 * liquidated- to reduce (accounts) to order; determine the amount of (indebtedness or damages)**
 * SUMMARY**
 * Elie and his fater ar on their last pieces of rope. Elie's father is extremely ill. Elie wakes one morning and looks to see a stranger where his father had been sleeping. They took him to the crematorium in the middle of the night. A few days later the camp was liberated. Elie became sick three days later with food poisoning. He got up when he felt better to see what he looked like in the mirror. He hadn't seen himself since the ghetto. He saw a courpse looking back at him. He said he will never forget the look that was on the courpse's face.**

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