Fortunately, Elie is given another reprieve, and within a few days, the dentist is arrested for trafficking in stolen gold teeth, so Elie keeps his gold crown for the time being. In other words, the dentist was executed for taking money from selling prisoners’ teeth which the Nazis claimed as theirs.

Not long after Eliezer and his father arrive in Buna, Eliezer is summoned to the dentist to have his gold crown pulled. He manages to plead illness and postpone having the crown removed. Soon after, the dentist is condemned to hanging for illegally trading in gold teeth.

The dentist himself, Elie tells us, “had a face not unlike a death mask. When he opened his mouth, one had a ghastly vision of yellow, rotten teeth.” The description, though it’s incidental to the episode, is one more sign of the horrifying conditions of life in the concentration camp.

The dentist is executed for corruption, for stealing gold teeth from the Jewish prisoners and selling them. Technically, he’s a thief, but he only sells the gold teeth he extracts out of necessity, to keep himself alive.

What is Eliezer’s punishment for stumbling upon Idek and the Polish girl? He would be given 25 slashing with a whip.

What finally happened to the dentist and why? He was imprisoned for dealing in gold teeth. What happened to Elie one day at the factory? He was beaten by Idek.

Why is this ironic when compared to his description? Curt Lemon is afraid of the dentist. Curt Lemon doesn’t mind blood or pain—he actually enjoys combat. He feels like the dentist gives him the creeps.

An Army dentist visits the area to administer care to the unit. Though the dentist has only rudimentary facilities, Lemon is especially scared because of childhood experiences with dentists. He faints in the dentist’s tent before being examined.

Unfortunately, Franek punishes Elie’s father for not allowing his son to give up his gold crown. Franek is aware that Elie’s father has difficulty marching in step with the other prisoners and begins to torment him daily for mistaking his steps.

This is done to satisfy Franek, a foreman who works at the electrical warehouse and who harasses Elie’s father as a means of bullying Elie into giving up the tooth. …

Idek beat Elie’s father with an iron bar because he was moving too slowly. Elie was angry, not at Idek, but at his father for not knowing how to avoid Idek’s wrath. This was yet another way in which the Nazis dehumanized the Jews. Franek, the Polish foreman, wanted Elie’s gold tooth.

Transfixed as they were by the sight of their comrade seemingly losing his will to live, they are startled by the sound of the shot that ends his life. After being shot, the man who had the courage to make his way to the soup falls back to ground, “[writhes for] a few seconds” and then succumbs to death.

After Franek asks Elie for his gold crown, how does Elie realize that Franek has changed? What temptation do the prisoners face during alerts? How do the prisoners feel when they realize they are being bombed? Elie answers it by saying he’s right in front of them being hung.

What was the punishment for stealing soup? Death.

Eliezer remains in a camp located in Buna with his father on the musicians’ block run by a sweet Jewish man. The two work in a warehouse under the power of Idek, an irrational and unpredictable foreman, where Elie is responsible for counting electrical parts.

Because he is having an affiar with the polish girl. How did Idek Punish Elie for spying on him? he layed him down on a table, and whipped him 25 times in front of everyone , Elie passed out idek , told him that the worse would come , if he told anyone what he saw.

Cards

The young French girl is a French Jew that passed as an Aryan. She helped Elie when the SS officer beat him by giving him bread. This is significant because after the hanging of a young man, all Elie cared about was how the food tasted.

Hitler

Elie later found out that the people that were left behind that day were liberated. Why is the wooden floor of the block cleaned before they leave? The prisoners were told to keep it clean so the liberators wouldn’t think they lived in a pigsty.