Night

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Across
  1. 3. / A substance that combusts and burns and produces heat. / "Fire! I see a fire! I see a fire!" (24)
  2. 5. / The living quarters where the prisoners had slept. / Two steps from the pit, we were ordered to turn left and herded into barracks. (34)
  3. 8. / The complete trust or belief in something or someone. / Have faith in life, a thousand times faith. (41)
  4. 10. / Large furnaces they used to burn people. / "Poor devils, you are heading for the crematorium." (32)
  5. 11. / An absence of sound. / In such silence. (95)
  6. 13. / Something that produced no result. / My protests were in vain. (109)
  7. 14. / The desire they had for everything to turn out alright. / To the last moment, people clung to hope. (15)
  8. 16. / A feeling for the need of food. / I was terribly hungry and swallowed my ration on the spot. (44)
  9. 18. / A process in which a SS doctor decided who lived or who was sent to the crematorium. / You have already eluded the worst danger: the selection. (41)
  10. 19. / The town where Eliezer grew up. / The Jews of Sighet—the little town in Transylvania where I spent my childhood—were fond of him. (3)
  11. 20. / The sub-camp they arrived at. / We had arrived. In Birkenau. (28)
Down
  1. 1. / The people who subdued and dehumanized them. / They were our first oppressors. (19)
  2. 2. / A body of a dead person. / From the depths of the mirror, a corpse was contemplating me. (115)
  3. 4. / The area that the jews were forced to live in. / Then came the ghettos. (11)
  4. 6. / The lack of emotions list concern, interest, and enthusiasm. / I woke from my apathy only when two men approached my father. (99)
  5. 7. / The first camp they went to. / Someone near a window read to us: "Auschwitz." (27)
  6. 9. / The Jewish prayer for the dead. / Someone began to recite Kaddish, the prayer for the dead. (33)
  7. 12. / The closing down of or to rid of something / The ghetto was to be liquidated entirely. (13)
  8. 15. / The feeling of sorrow and compassion because of misfortunes. / Have pity on your old father . . . (105)
  9. 17. / An event/events beyond the control of a person. / There no longer was any distinction between rich and poor, notables and the others; we were all people condemned to the same fate—still unknown. (21