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Assignment 1: Reasons for Writing
The Reasons In the non-fiction novel Night by Elie Wiesel describes the reasons of why he wrote the book. I think the main reason this book was written was so that people never forget what happened in the concentration camps. Wiesel also wrote this book to leave behind his memories so that this type of massacre never happens again. In this novel I think that Wiesel also describes what it was like being in a concentration camp and seeing people die every day was like. I think another reason Elie wrote the book is so that the people who read it will at least understand how horrible it was to be in a death camp or a concentration camp. In the preface of the book Wiesel describes losing hope of ever getting out and I think he wants his readers to understand that. These are the reasons that I think are why Elie Wiesel wrote Night.

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. []


 * Topics to Know || Questions || Answers ||
 * **Nazi Propaganda ** || Who is Joseph Goebbels?

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

[] || Joseph Goebbels was the head of Propaganda.

1.Propaganda 2.  R eich Chamber of Commerce 3.The Nazis also only let the people hear what they wanted to hear || []
 * **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?

[] || Kristallnacht was anti-Jewish riots against the Jewish community of Germany. Kristallnacht means “The night of broken glass”.and it happened November 9-10,1938.

The Nazi party and German government officials attended and it was a meeting to discuss the Final Solution. The Final Solution was the code name for the genocide of 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” ||

1. Gypsies 2.People with disabilities 3. Poles 4. Soviet prisoners of war 5. Afro Germans 6. Jehovah’s Witnesses 7. homosexuals ||
 * **The Ghettos ** || <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Describe the three types of ghettos, their purpose, and locations.

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What was life like in the ghettos? [] || 1.closed ghettos(in German-occupied Poland and were closed off by walls) 2.open ghettos(no walls or fences but had restrictions of entering and leaving) 3.destruction ghettos(tightly sealed off and existed for between 2 to 6 weeks)

The living conditions were bad and over crowded. || []
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">The Camps ** || <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">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?

[] || Extermination camps were strictly camps where people were murdered. Labor camps were used to put people to work.

The conditions were horrific. They were dirty and people could easily catch diseases. The extermination method was gas chambers. || []
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">The Liberation & The Nuremberg Trials ** || <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">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 first to get to the camps were the Soviets then the allied forces.

Towards the end of the war Hitler committed suicde.There were 24 defendants charged and they represented cross-section of German diplomatic, economic, political, and military leadership.

They were prosecuted. ||

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Moishe the Beatle <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Moishe the Beatle <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Old and homeless <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Praying, telling, running <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Like a prophet and as invisible as Jews were to the rest of the world <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">A living dead man Traumatized Along with a lot of other Jews