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toc =Lucy BS. //Night// Assignments=

Assignment 1: Reasons for Writing
 Wiesel's Reasons  Elie Wiesel chose to write the novel //Night// for a variety of reasons. The main reason is because of responsibility. Wiesel feels like it is his job to inform people of the Holocaust while he is still alive. Few Holocaust survivors are still living and it is important that people have information about the horrible genocide recorded. Elie Wiesel also wrote the book so that history does not repeat itself. People can learn how the genocide began and how to prevent it from beginning again. With Wiesel’s stories and facts about the Holocaust we continue to learn more and more about the genocide that began in nineteen ninety four.

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 one of the most influential people in Germany and was appointed by Hitler to be the head of propaganda. 1) Set up Reich Chamber of Commerce 2) Organized book burnings 3) Made severe punishments || []
 * ** 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 a pogrom in November of 1938.Kristallnacht means “ night of the broken glass.”

High-ranking Nazis and German government officials attended the Wannsee Conference to decide “ Final Solution of the Jewish Question”.

The final solution was to exterminate the 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” || Seven other groups that were targeted were the Roman gypsies, people with disabilities, Pole, Soviet prisoners of war, Afro-Germans, Jehovah witnesses, and homosexuals.

The groups died. ||
 * ** The Ghettos ** || Describe the three types of ghettos, their purpose, and locations.

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What was life like in the ghettos? [] || The three types of ghettos were the open ghettos, closed ghettos, and destruction ghettos. Closed ghettos were closed by gates and barb wire sop that no one could escape where I open ghettos just had boundaries and rules about entering and leaving and then destruction ghettos were tightly sealed off where people died within almost six weeks. These ghettos were supposed to organize the Jews into different groups.

Life was miserable and horrid in the ghettos where people would sit and starve and watch friends and family die. || []
 * ** 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?

[] || Labor camps were where the Jews were worked to death and death camps were where the Jews were just deliberately executed.

Throughout the camps there was sickness and despair. People were starving and barley dressed.

To exterminate the Jews the Nazis used gas chambers, guns, and ovens. || []
 * ** 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 Soviets liberated the camps.

Towards the end of the war Adolf Hitler committed suicide.

Twenty-one defendants were charged during the Nuremberg Trials and they represented the Nazi’s.

The International Military Tribunal decided that “following orders” was not a legitimate defense. || =Assignment 3: Images of Night = Death Camps Death Camps Eerie and gloomy Sickening, disgusting,revolting Like the smell of rubbish and as filthy as dirt A bed of mortality Mourning To be remembered for a lifetime