THE LITTLE POLISH BOY 1 Study the picture

“THE LITTLE POLISH BOY” 1. Study the picture. In your opinion, explain what is taking place un the background and what the child could be thinking or feeling. 2. Consider the boy in the poem and the boy in the novel. Compare Wiesel’s statement on page 23 that the little boy’s words to his mother upset him more than Madame Schacther’s screams and the author’s decision in the poem to focus only on the little boy in the photo. 3. Explain the reason the author uses a refrain in the poem. 4. Explain the 3 things the author wishes to create in memory of the little Polish boy. 5. These 3 things serve another purpose: to punish the Holocaust bystanders. Explain how. 6. Explain why the author expresses his desire to punish the bystanders but not the perpetrators. 7. Imagine that you were a child who survived the Holocaust. Explain whether or not you would be a different person than you are now.

An American soldier stands above the corpses of children that are to be buried in a mass grave dug by German civilians (April 14, 1945

RESPONSE # 2 Explain your own reasoning regarding the strange incident with Madame Schachter. Was it a hallucination, prophecy, vision, or a diving warning? Why did Wiesel choose to include this incident in his memoir? Is this incident somehow linked to his faith?