Oprah and Elie Wiesel at Auschwitz
While viewing the video, please complete the information needed to answer each question or close reading sentence listed below.
Part 1
Describe what Oprah and Elie are wearing and what you see in the opening scene.
______to ______million Eastern European Jews died at ______.
When did Elie Wiesel arrive at Auschwitz?
How many Jews died during the Holocaust?
What caused the problems in Germany prior to Holocaust?
What started WWII?
How big was Auschwitz?
Who was left after the Holocaust?
Why does Elie Wiesel speak softly while visiting Auschwitz?
What does Elie Wiesel believe is still at Auschwitz?
Auschwitz is the largest ______in history.
What was Elie Wiesel’s first impression of Auschwitz?
What does Elie Wiesel say they would have done if they had known what Auschwitz was?
How many were put in the cattle cars at a time?
What did Elie Wiesel smell getting off the train at Auschwitz?
What was Mrs. Schachter?
Where was Elie’s family sent?
Part 2
What does Elie say as he looks back on the Holocaust?
How does Elie feel about suffering today?
The ______Concentration Camp is the site of the ______mass ______in the ______of mankind. A ______of death. Those that survived selection were executed, ______, or ______to death.
Then came the ______.
______Hungarian Jews were deported every day.
Largest camp at Auschwitz was ______and it had ___ gas chambers.
______gas was used to ______them while they “______.” It took ___ minutes to die and it felt like ______. The SS would ______the gassings through ______.
A special ______calledSonderkommando took care of the ______. The ______were lowered into ______ovens.
Where does Elie Wiesel believe his family was killed?
How and when was it destroyed?
According to Elie Wiesel, they were deprived of their ______, their ______, their ______, their ______, their ______and their ______.
Part 3
“The ______of Auschwitz was the ______of ______.”
What is Elie Wiesel’s comment when they were at the crematoriums’ site?
What are Elie Wiesel’s favorite words?
How was it believed that the allies knew of the Nazi’s plans to destroy the Jews?
____% of prisoners arriving at Auschwitz were sent to the ______while the rest were deemed fit to ______and worthy to ______.
How many people were assigned to a bunk?
How many blankets did they receive?
What was the mattress made from?
What hurried death?
What was their average life span?
What was their uniform?
What were they given to eat?
Who does Elie Wiesel think of all the time?
What right did the SS have?
“I don’t remember myself ______, only ______.”
Part 4 and 5
“I have published ______books, but I feel ______. I haven’t done ______.”
Where wereElie and his father moved to?
What was it referred to as being?
Arbeit Macht Frei means ______.
Where was this written?
How does Elie Wiesel describe himself as a boy?
Who did Elie Wiesel stay alive for and why?
What does Elie Wiesel say they lived inside of?
Identify some of Dr. Mengele’s experiments.
Name the items protected behind glass.
1. 2.3.
4.5.
What was Zyklon B used for before WWII?
In regard to #2 above, what did the owners write on them?
How many people had died at Auschwitz by the time it closed?
As Elie Wiesel and Oprah are looking at the shoes what comments are made?
How many Jews died during the Holocaust?
Why was their hair taken from them?
Part 6
Fill-in the blanks regarding the ancient legend Elie speaks about.
“Whenever a just ______dies ______sheds ____ tears. And when they fall into the ______they are reverberated throughout the ______.”
“The ______of one ______makes no ______. The ______of ______what sense could it make? Except for ______. Now we know.”
To Those Who Lost Their Lives
We Remember!
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