NAME: _____________________
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 you see in the opening scene.
______ to ______ million Eastern European Jews died at _________________.
How big was Auschwitz?
Why does Elie Wiesel speak softly while visiting Auschwitz?
What was Elie Wiesel’s first impression of Auschwitz?
What does Elie Wiesel say they would have done if they would have 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?
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Part 2
How does Elie feel about suffering today?
Where does Elie Wiesel believe his family was killed?
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 gas chambers.
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 __________________.”
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Part 4 and 5
Where were Elie and his father moved to?
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.
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Name the items protected behind glass.
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What was Zyklon B used for before WWII?
In regard to #2 above, what did the owners write on them?
As Elie Wiesel and Oprah are looking at the shoes what comments are made?
Why was their hair taken from them?
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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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