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Assignment 1: Reasons for Writing
Briana Fleetwood English 8P-7 January 27, 2010

Night Book

In the Night book Elie Wisel writes about his experiences in the Holocaust. Elie had his wife to translate his books to the other publishers because the real version was in Yiddish. Elie writes about how many people are scared about writing what they have experienced in this tragedy. From women to children he saw that they were sent to these chambers and a crematorium. In his life he has seen babies get thrown out and into what looked like trenches. Even Elie went through the pain of seeing his father die right in front of him. He wanted to try to save his father but he couldn’t do it. It was to hard for him to. So Elie has written this book to express all the hardships and pain that he has been through with this because he feels that a lot of people do not express how they feel or how they felt when all of this madness to place.

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 appointed by Hitler to be the head of the propaganda. 1) Set up the Reich Chamber of Commerce in 1933. 2) Hitler organized book-burning episodes. 3) Also spoke in cheap radios called the “Peoples Reciver”. || []
 * ** 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?

[] || The Kristallnacht was a pogrom that Nazis’ set up that was like anti-Jew riots against the Jewish community. It happened in 1938. SS General Reinhard Heydrich, Heinrich Himmler, Adolf Eichmann attend the conference to discuss the Jewish problem and find a solution for it. The Final Solution was to exterminate all the 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 the war, Jehovah Witnesses and homosexuals. Each group just wanted to make sure that they were not discriminated against, and to make sure that their voices were heard. ||
 * ** 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 are closed, open, and destruction ghettos. Their purpose was to separate many of the Jews and other victims that had to go in the camps or live in these ghettos. Many of these are located in Lodz, Krakow, Bialystok, Lvov, Lublin, Vilna, Kovno, Minsk.

Life in the ghettos for the Jews was not pretty. The Jews were ordered by the Germans to where badges or armbands in order to be identified. also forced to do labor on the German Reich. Many people tried to smuggle food medicine, and any other things that they needed. || []
 * ** 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?

[] || Forced labor camps was where many of the Jews and the victims were forced to do brutal labor. Sometimes ending in people dying in exhaustion, starvation, and exposure. And the death/ extermination camps was a place where they took the victims to be killed. it was supposed to be a place where a mass number of people get killed.

Conditions were harsh especially in the winter and they were the same during the summer. Except in the winter it was much worse.

All of this happened in killing centers and this is where they used poisonous gases to kill people asphyxiation. || []
 * ** 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 people who liberated these camps were the Soviets.

Hitler ended up giving up and making some the of Nazis leave the place that they took over.

24 defendants were charged during the Nuremberg Trails. they represented a cross section of German diplomatic, economic, political, and military leadership.

The International Military Tribunal decided that the legitimate defense was that the whole Holocaust thing was not an accident that it was done on purpose. ||

Assignment 3: Images of Night
Ghettos Small and crowded Boring, damaging, scaring Like an overcrowded jail, as scary as a little child afraid of the boogie man Treated as dogs all caged in Suffocating Sitting not knowing what to choose, in the middle of living and dying.