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toc =Macie S. //Night// Assignments=

Assignment 1: Reasons for Writing
__Elie’s Reasons __ Elie Wiesel has many reasons for writing his memoir __Night__. One of the reasons is to leave behind a legacy of words and memories so he can help prevent things like the Holocaust from happening again. He wants to educate the world so they can try to do things to prevent history from repeating itself. Another reason is because he wants to preserve a record of the ordeal he endured as a fifteen year old. He wants to tell people about what he experienced first hand and what is was like for him to do it at such a young age. He knows that he must bear a witness to what he saw because there are not many people left who can and in very little time there will be nobody who can tell these stories because they will have all passed away. He tells stories about how he watched the Nazis kill his father and how he did not obey his father’s last wish that was for his to be at his side. It was very hard for him to make the abridged version because he did not want to cut out any or the story because he thought it is all equally important. One thing he believes is that there is a response in responsibility. In conclusion there are many reasons for why Elie Wiesel wrote the novel __Night__ and most of them include telling people about what happened and trying to prevent it from happening again.

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.

[] || He went to Heidelberg University and received a doctorate of philosophy in 1920. He served in the first world war. He was given the task of building up the support for the Nazis in Berlin.

-Goebbels set up the Reich Chamber of Commerce -Nazis controlled film production -They sold cheap radios so that everybody could hear Hilter || []
 * **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?

[] || Night of Broken Glass, it happened on November 9-10, 1938

15 High-ranking Nazi Party and German government officials and talked about the final solution of the Jewish Question

The final solution was the code name for the systematic deliberate, physical annihilation of the European 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” ||

-Roma (Gypsies), disabled, Poles, Soviet prisoners of war, Afro-Germans, Jehovah’s Witnesses, homosexuals

They would go to the camps or just be killed depending on their strength, sex, and age ||
 * **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? [] || -closed ghettos, open ghettos, and destruction ghettos

Closed-surrounded by walls Open-had no walls or fences Destruction-tightly sealed off and existed for between 2-6 weeks before they were destroyed

Miserable conditions, they isolated Jews, and they separated them from other races || []
 * **<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?

[] || Labor Camps- they worked them until they died Death Camps- they just killed them immediately

The conditions were small barracks, dark, crowded, dirty and strict

They killed them by poison gas or by shooting || []
 * **<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? [] || Soviets

Committed suicide

There were 24 defendants and they represented <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt;">cross-section of German diplomatic, economic, political, and military leadership Following Orders ||

=Assignment 3 Images of Night =

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">Ghettos <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; font-size: 16pt;">Ghettos <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; font-size: 16pt;">Overcrowded and small <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; font-size: 16pt;">Confining, restricting, and dehumanizing <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; font-size: 16pt;">Like a busy bee hive and as hot as the sun <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; font-size: 16pt;">A holding cell for the innocent <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; font-size: 16pt;">Isolating <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; font-size: 16pt;">In the blistering sun in the face of death