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toc =Anthony S. //Night// Assignments=

Assignment 1: Reasons for Writing
Reason for Writing

There are many reasons why Elie Wiesel wrote the book //Night//. As a survivor he wanted to tell others about the horrors of the holocaust. As a young child he watched his father beaten to death and others killed in the most horrific ways. Although it was painful thinking of the past he felt it was necessary for others to know. He also wanted to prevent something like that from happening again. He also wanted to write it because the dictionary had nothing in it about the holocaust. If he did not write this book more horrible things could have happened.

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.

[] || 1. Joseph Goebbels was born in 1897 and died in 1945. Goebbels was Hitler’s Minister of Propaganda and one of the most important and influential people in Nazi, Germany. 2. They made sure nobody in Germany could read or see anything that was bad or damaging to the Nazi Party, they also made sure that the views of the Nazis were put across in the most persuasive manner possible, they burn books that did not say good thing about Nazis.

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 * ** 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?

[] || 1. It was anti Jewish riots against the Jewish community in Germany. The word means “the night of broken glash”. This happened November 9-10, 1938.

||  || 2. 15 high-ranking Nazi Party and German government officials attended, they gathered at a villa in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee to discuss what they called the "Final Solution of the Jewish Question." 3. The Final Solution was that the Jews would be sent to labor camps in the east separated by gender. ||


 * || Besides the Jewish people, list seven other groups were also targets/victims of the Holocaust?
 * || 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. -Roma (Gypsies) -People with disabilities -Poles -Soviet Prisoners of War -Afro-Germans -Jehovah’s witnesses -Homo Sexuals 2. A lot of the people in these groups got killed in the concentration/death camp. ||
 * ** The Ghettos ** || Describe the three types of ghettos, their purpose, and locations.

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What was life like in the ghettos? [] || 1. The three ghettos were closed ghettos, open ghettos, and destruction ghettos. The closed ghetto was in the parts of Poland and The Soviet Union that Germany has control over; they were closed in by walls and barbwire fences. Open Ghettos were in the same place as the closed Ghettos but they were also in Transnistia, there were no fences or barb wire but there were restrictions on leaving and entering. The destruction Ghettos were tightly sealed in place that existed for two to six weeks then German Soldiers would come and shoot the people; they existed in Lithuania and Ukraine. 2. They did not get a lot of food and there were very tight living conditions. || []
 * ** 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?

[] || 1. In labor camps you were going have to work and you weren’t really planned to die but you probably going to, in death camps you were going to get killed. 2. The living conditions were very uncomfortable. 3. They did to different kinds of killings shootings and gas poising. || []
 * ** 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? [] || 1. The Soviets the U.S. and the British liberated the Camps. 2. He committed suicide near the end of the war. 3. 24 defendants were selected to represent a cross-section of German diplomatic, economic, political, and military leadership. 4. They said that following orders was not a good defense. ||

=Assignment 3: Images Of Night= Ghetto

Ghetto Crowded and Hot Burning, Heartbreaking, and mourning Stuffed like teddy bears, and as hot as the sun A small town made of legos Crying With lots of people