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Assignment 1: Reasons for Writing
A Horrific Childhood

Elie Wiesel wrote the novel //“Night”// because he wanted people to know how life is in a concentration camp. Elie has been through a lot of horrific things that no one could imagine. Elie wants to inform people what he went through in a concentration camp. Elie knew that it is important for people to know about this. Elie wrote the book because it is so traumatizing and is an experience that no one could forget. Elie thinks the period of that time is meager, pale and lifeless. Elie has been through his mother, sister, and other family members dying in the gas chambers. He has seen young innocent children transform into smoke in the silent sky.

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 minister of Propaganda for the Nazis.

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 * 1) The Nazis burned books that were not related to the Nazi ways.
 * 2) The Nazis controlled the film production and only showed films on Hitler.
 * 3) The Nazis controlled the art, music, radio, film and newspaper so people would know the correct manner of the Nazis. ||
 * **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 night when the Nazi policeman went out to destroy Jewish synagogues and Jewish businesses so Jewish people would have to move out or start over.

Kistalnacht means the Night of the Broken Glass.

Kristalnacht happened on November 9, 1938.

Reinhard Heydrich who was the General of the SS, Heinrich Himmler who was the leader of the Gestapo, Adolf Eichmann who was the leader of Jewish Affairs, these leaders all represented the SS.

The Final Solution was the code name for the 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” || The Nazis targeted the Gypsies, people with disabilities, Poles, Soviet prisoners of war, Afro-Germans, Jehovah’s witnesses, and homosexuals.

They would self purge all of the other groups, and they would annihilate all of the Jews. ||


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

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What was life like in the ghettos? [] || There were three types of ghettos, closed ghettos, open ghettos, and destruction ghettos. A closed ghetto was a closed off by walls, German soldiers compelled Jews, and epidemics were the outcome of the life styles the Jews had to live in and were mainly in Poland and the Soviet Union. An open ghetto had no walls or fences but had restrictions whether Jews could leave, these were in Poland, the Soviet Union and Ukraine. A destruction ghetto was tightly sealed off and lasted from two to six weeks mainly just killing Jews, these ghettos were in the Soviet Union, Lithuania, Ukraine, and Hungary.

Life in a ghetto was very bad you had a limited amount of supplies and didn’t have shelter, German soldiers could accuse you of doing anything. || []
 * **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?

[] || In labor camps the Nazis made you work and do labor, people would die of starvation, exhaustion and exposure. In concentration camps the Nazis were deliberately kill Jews in the camps by putting them in gas chambers.

The conditions were horrible, they were abused, didn’t have a lot of food, beds were terrible, people died of sicknesses and starvation.

The Nazis would perform extermination by shooting the victims or gassing them. || []
 * **<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 IMT decided to charge the 24 defendants. || The Allied forces liberated the concentration camps.

Hitler commit suicide before the end of the war.

24 defendants were charged, they represented the Nazi party. ||

Asignment 3: Images of Night --- <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Moishe the Beatle <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Moishe the Beatle <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Poor and Homeless <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Caring, Teaching, and Preaching <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Like a ghost to people and as teaching as a priest <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">A traumatized man full of death <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Terrified <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Along with all of the Jews