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Assignment 1: Reasons for Writing
__Elie Wiesel__ Elie Wiesel has many reasons why he wrote the memoir __Night.__  Wiesel says that others believe he survived for a reason. He believes that he survived by chance but because he did, he hopes others can learn from his experience. He says, “However, having survived, I needed to give some meaning to my survival” (Wiesel viii). He hopes the memoir Night will show others the truth of what happened during the holocaust. This is one of the many reasons he wrote his book. Wiesel uses his writing as therapy for the things he has been through in his past. He uses his writing so he can go crazy and express all his thoughts. He uses it not to go crazy so that he doesn’t keep all his hurt in side of him for the rest of his life. He has been through terrible times such as prison camps, and other awful experiences. He feels as though he needs to express the way he felt during these times so that it does not become just another time in the textbooks. These, and many other reasons explain why he wrote is wonderful memoir.

Assignment 2: Holocaust Web Search
|| 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.

[] || - Could only read, see, and hear what the Nazis wanted you to - They gave you severe punishment if you did not do what was asked of you - Nazis’ assumes that what they taught would be picked up very extremely || []
 * ** 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?

[] || - When Nazis destroyed everything that the Jews had such as stories, houses - It also was known’s as the night of broken glass - It happened on Novemember 1938 2. Was a meeting by the Nazis that took place outside Berli n it was about Jews and quickly lead to genocide ||


 * ** 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” || - Homosexuals - Soviet union prisoners - Afro-Germans - Gypsies - People with diabetes ||
 * ** The Ghettos ** || Describe the three types of ghettos, their purpose, and locations.

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What was life like in the ghettos? [] || - Closed- occupied soviet union and Germany, were closed off by barb wire or fence the starved and put people in unheated hoying and made Jews live in serve weather conditions - Destruction –tightly sealed off and exsiccate 2-6 weeks b4 Germans deported or shot the Jews - Open- had no walls or fences, existed in Germany they occupied Romanian authorities - Lodz, Krakow, Bialystok, Lvol, Lublin. Vilna ||

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 * 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?

[] || - Gas showers, Killing of own family members and children, starvation, public shooting and much more - Conditions were awful, rats, dirty, barely any food or water, burning hot - - Labor camps- worked people to death - Death camps- just killed off people slowly or quickly but not a such labor || []
 * 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? [] || - Nazis and Nazi police Liberated the camps

- 24 were charged - Hitler committed suicide - They represented cross-section of German diplomatic, economic, political, and military leadership. - “Following Orders” of other Nazis || =Assignment 3 Images of Night=

 __Gas Chambers __ Gas Chambers Horrific and Deadly Saddening, Terrifying, Killing Like the cries of children in pain and as cloudy as fog A hand from the angel of death Dying With nothing left but themselves and one in a million