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What was the Appelplatz used for?
Appellplatz (often spelt appelplatz) is a compound German word meaning “roll call” (Appell) and “area” or “place” (Platz). In English, the word is generally used to describe the location for the daily roll calls in Nazi concentration camps.
What is the cabbala in night?
Cabbala: Jewish mysticism, including numerology. Charnel house: a building used to house corpses and bones. Concentration camp: camps that were primarily used for slave labor, holding camps or transit camps.
What did the resistance do night?
The underground resistance made efforts to save the Jews from mass murder at the Buchenwald camp. Eliezer and the other prisoners established that this was an effort by the underground resistance to save them. We returned to the block.
What does Elie see that causes him to lose faith in God?
During times of sorrow, when everyone was praying and sanctifying His name, Elie no longer wanted to praise the Lord; he was at the point of giving up. The fact that the “Terrible Master of the Universe, chose to be silent”(33) caused Elie to lose hope and faith.
What do prisoners not think about after they are freed?
What did the prisoners do when they were freed? Once the ordeal at Buchenwald had come to its close and the Nazis were on the run, the prisoners think only of food as they find freedom and liberation from the camp. They do not think of anything else but survival and the barest of means to accomplish this end.
What did Moishe the Beadle look like?
Moishe the Prophet Moishe the Beadle is described as a very compassionate, caring man. Although he’s poor, he’s educated and very knowledgeable about Kabbalah. Moishe is dreamy, awkward, and very quiet.
What story did Moshe tell when he returned?
Upon his return, what story does Moishe tell? He says the foreign Jews were gathered and put on a train, when the train stopped they were forced to dig trenches and then shot. Babies were used as target practice. Moishe is wounded in the leg and left for dead.
What were the prisoners doing when resistance arrived?
What were the prisoners doing when the resistance arrived? They were gathering for an assembly.
What happened when the camp resistance movement decided to act?
What did they do? The resistance movement comprised of armed prisoners, who later launched on attack on the SS, forcing them to flee and abandon the camp. The resistance subsequently took over control of the camp and liberated the prisoners.