What did Juliek bring with him and was afraid it would get broken? His violin. He died playing his violin.

What did Elie realize about Rabbi Eliahou and his son? He realized that the son had been trying to lose his father as the men were running. At the same time, the Rabbi was looking for the son who had deserted him.

Eliezer falsely tells Rabbi Eliahou he has not seen the son, yet, during the run, Eliezer saw the son abandon his father, running ahead when it seemed Rabbi Eliahou would not survive. Eliezer prays that he will never do what Rabbi Eliahou’s son did. In the press of men, Eliezer and his father are thrown to the ground.

What did Elie realize about Rabbi Eliahou’s son just after the evacuation? The son was dead and the Rabbi could not admit it. The son had been trying to lose his father as the men were all running. The son had escaped and did not take his father.

Rabbi Eliahou A devout Jewish prisoner whose son abandons him in one of many instances in Night of a son behaving cruelly toward his father. Eliezer prays that he will never behave as Rabbi Eliahou’s son behaves.

Fortunately, Moishe survives a firing squad, pretends to be dead, and is able to return back to Sighet with minor injuries. In Sighet, Moishe tells his tragic story and begs the citizens to evacuate the town before the Nazi soldiers arrive.

Being that Moishe the Beadle is a foreign Jew, who is homeless and lives in poverty, the Jewish citizens of Sighet do not believe anything he says and simply dismiss his warnings.

Moshe the Beadle (Elie’s Kabbalah tutor) is expelled from Sighet for being a foreign Jew. He is gone a few months and upon his return he tried to warn everyone about the Nazis. No one listens and they call him crazy. Shortly after arriving in the ghettos, the Jews were told to puck because they were being transported.

Are there other warnings? The warnings of “horrible things to come” from Moshe the Beadle was not taken seriously because people thought he was mad. Prisoners were very angry with new Jews because they think they should have killed themselves rather than being killed in the camps.

She is a middle-aged woman who goes crazy after she’s separated from her husband and packed into a cattle car headed to Auschwitz. Throughout the long nights in the train, she punctuates the imprisoned Jews’ journey with screaming and rambling about fire and flames, warning and begging the Jews to see the fire.

Madame Schachter screams because she is going mad scared. She is put in a cattle car with her son after accidentally being seperated from the rest of her family. She “kept” screaming “FIRE!” because she was seeing visions of the Holocaust.

At first, what does Madame Schachter cry and moan about? She cries about being separated with her family.

Madame Schächter, a middle-aged woman who is on the train with her ten-year-old son, soon cracks under the oppressive treatment to which the Jews are subjected. On the third night, she begins to scream that she sees a fire in the darkness outside the car.

What had “broken” Mme. Schachter? That she had been separated from her husband and children, all but one.

Why does Elie thank God for mud? He got new shoes, so the mud was concealing them so he wasn’t hit by the guards, and didn’t yet have to give up his shoes.

Why do other passengers hit Madame Schachter and tie her up? They hit her because she kept screaming and wouldn’t be quiet while others were trying to rest. What is the abominable odor in the air at Auschwitz? The odor is the smell of burning flesh from the crematorium.

What actions do people take to quiet Madame Schachter? They talk to her. They put a cool cloth on her forehead.