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toc =Veronica B. //Night// Assignments=

Assignment 1: Reasons for Writing
Elie Wiesel Elie Wiesel wrote his famous book //Night// for many reasons. He mainly wrote so that people will know what actually happened during the Holocaust. He wrote it for his family members that died in the Holocaust. He felt that God let him survive so that he could tell his story. This book was also written so that people will not forget the Holocaust and the horrible memories that it holds. When he told his story to the book publisher the publisher said that he has never heard a story more heartbreaking. When writing he also thought that maybe he wrote it as to not go mad or to go mad. He felt that books have a destiny just like people. Some books invite sorrow, some invite joy and some both. Elie wanted people to realize the heartbreak that he endured so that maybe it could prevent something like this from happening in the future.

Assignment 2: Holocaust Web Search
Night Web Search Background Information for the Holocaust Use the following websites for a quick overview of the following terms and people. [] || Who is Joseph Goebbels?
 * Topics to Know || Questions || Answers ||
 * ** Nazi Propaganda **

List three things the Nazis did to ensure that their views were shown/heard in the most persuasive manner possible.

[] || Joseph Goebbels was appointed by Hitler to be the head propaganda. Goebbels worked with the SS and the Gestapo. He also set up the Reich Chamber of Commerce in 1933 and organized many book burnings in Germany || []
 * ** Kristallnacht/ The Final Solution/ **
 * Wannsee Conference ** || What is Kristallnacht and what does the word mean? When did it happen?

Who attended and what was decided at the Wannsee Conference?

What was the Final Solution?

[] || “The Night of Broken Glass” when and untold number of Jewish synagogues shops and homes were burned and the windows were broken. They also damaged Jewish schools homes hospitals, and cemeteries. Hitler and other high ranker German officials and officers made the Final Solution. Final Solution was to exterminate all Jews ||
 * ** The Victims ** || Besides the Jewish people, list seven other groups were also targets/victims of the Holocaust?

Briefly tell the fate of each group under Nazi rule.

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CLUE: Begin reading at “Targeted Groups” || Gypsies, people with disabilities, Poles, Soviet prisoners of war, Afro-Germans, Jehovah’s witnesses, homosexuals ||
 * ** The Ghettos ** || Describe the three types of ghettos, their purpose, and locations.

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What was life like in the ghettos? [] || Closed ghettos, open ghettos, and destruction ghettos. The purpose was to segregate the certain types of people. Lodz, Krakow, Bialystok, Lvov, Lublin, Vilna, Kovno, Czestochowa, and Minsk || []
 * ** The Camps ** || There were two kinds of camps: labor camps and death/extermination camps. What is the difference between the two?

What were the conditions?

What different types of extermination were performed?

[] || The difference between the labor camps and the death camps is that the death camps are used primarily for mass murder and the labor camps were made to force u to do labor.

The conditions were horrible and people died of exhaustion, starvation, and exposure.

Different types of extermination were gas chambers and shooting. || []
 * ** The Liberation & The Nuremberg Trials ** || Who liberated the camps?

What did Hitler do near the end of the war?

How many defendants were charged during the Nuremberg Trials? What did they represent? []

What did the International Military Tribunal decide was not a legitimate defense? [] || The Allied Forces.

He told his camp guards to try and burn the body bodies.

24 German officers were charged to represent a cross-section of German diplomatic, economic, political, and military leadership.

They said that “following orders” wasn’t a legitimate defense. ||

Assignment 3: Images of Night  **Barrack** Barrack Old and Black Squeaking, breaking, and darkening Like a black blanket and as cold as a harsh winter breeze My life becoming a quick flash of lighting Swallowing With bear claws as sharp nails