Assignment 3 ♥ Night- Questions

Questions

1. Who is Moishe the Beadle?
2. Why did Eliezer cry when he prayed?
3. When Moishe/Moche returned what did he tell?
4. Why didn't people believe him?
5. List the ways the Jewish people of Sighet lost their rights (List 5).
6. What is a Ghetto?
7. Why did citizens resist the truth , even when it was in front of them?
8. Describe the conditions in the train (at the end of the chapter).


Answers

1. He is a very poor man, but people are very fond of him. A highpercentage of the time he seemed invisable. He was very weird but in a good kind of a way.

2. Elie really didn't know why he would cry he just felt that he had to.

3. Moishe said that the train with the deportees had crossed the hungarian borderand, once in Polish territory, had been taken over by the Gestapo. The train had stooped. the jews were ordered to get off and onto waiting trucks. the trucks headed toward a forest. there everyone was ordered to get out. they were forced to dig huge trenches. when they finished their work, the men from the Gestapo began theirs. without passion or haste, they shot their prisoners, who were forced to approach the trench one by one and offer their necks. infants were tossed into the air and were used as targets for their machine guns.

4.No one belied him because they all thought that he just wanted them to feel sorry for him.

5. ♥Most homes were taken over by German soldiers and they had to do what they said. ♥ They couldn't keep any objests of precious value. ♥ All Jews had to wear the yellow star♥ All privelages were taken away and they were not allowed to be out after 6:00 pm ♥ They were put in ghettos

6. A ghetto is a section of a specific ethnic group

7. They did not believe Hitler could kill them all.

8. There were 80 people per cart. little food and water, cars were sealed, anyone who tried to escape was killed and there were also bars on the window.