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Assignment 1: Reasons for Writing
History Chosen to be Recorded

Elie Wiesel explains how he chose to write his memoir, __Night__//.// In the preface, he begins to explain why he chose to write this book by saying that he only wants to write one book in his lifetime, and this book is called __Night__. Many people say that he survived the holocaust because he was meant to write this book. Wiesel himself does not know what the outcome of his words will be. Is it to make him go mad so he can understand the madness of humanity? Is it to make sure that the terrible tragedy will never happen again? He does not know why he survived when millions of people who did not deserve to die died. Wiesel only knew that his survival meant that he had to write this book so that people could know what almost happened when the entire Jewish race almost became extinct. Elie Wiesel’s outcome of his words touched many people and became one of the greatest authors of all-time.

Assignment 2: Holocaust Web Search

 * ** 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.

[] || Hitler made Goebbels in charge of the nazi propaganda. His official title Minister of Propaganda nad National Enlightnment.

1)Music 2)Film 3)Literature || []
 * ** 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__**- Nazi held these anti-Jewish riots against the Jewish community in Germany. It happened 71 years ago, November9-10, 1938.

15 high-ranking Nazi party and German government officials attended the conference.
 * __The Final Solution__**- was a codename for the systematic, deliberate, physical annihilation of all 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), people with disabilities, poles, Soviet prisoners of war, Afro-Germans, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and homosexuals.

The Nazis sought to exterminate all of these groups because they felt that their race was superior, and others were inferior. ||
 * ** The Ghettos ** || Describe the three types of ghettos, their purpose, and locations.

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What was life like in the ghettos? [] || 1) Closed ghettos 2)Open ghettos 3)Destruction ghettos Most of them were located in the cities of Lodz, Krakow, Bialystok, Lvov, Vilna, Kovno, and Minsk. Their purpose was to separate Jewish communities, andmake it so that they could control and segregate them.

Conditions of the ghettos were terrible, most of the people were murdered, or died of disease, they were crowded, they had terrible sanitary conditions, and severe winter weather. || []
 * ** 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 built for temporary way stations. Extermination Camps were built to murder people.

Jews and other races were murdered by asphyxiation with poison gas, or by shooting.

The conditions were terrible, about 6,000 jews died everyday, the Nazis would take their valuables before they murdered them. || []
 * ** 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 US, the Soviets, and the British liberated these camps.

Hitler as well as two other German leaders committed suicide.

24 defendants were charged, they represented cross-section of German diplomatic, economic, political, and military leadership.

The IMT decided that “following orders” was not a legitimate defense of criminal acts. ||

=Assignmnt 3: Imags of Night =

Moishe the Beatle Moishe the Beatle Invisible and likeable Singing, crying, and begging Eyes as dreamy as the moon and stories as crazy as a mad man’s A soul of the dead Shouting At the houses of the ghettos

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