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toc =Warren S. //Night// Assignments=

Assignment 1: Reasons for Writing
A Gruesome Story

Elie Wiesel, a holocaust survivor, wrote //Night// for several reasons. Heproclaims to have written it to not go mad ,or to go mad to understand such a gruesome experience. Elie wants to

leave behind something, memories a legacy to help prevent this tragedy from happening again. He also wants to expose the Nazis for the horrible things that they did, separating families, killing millions just because of

their religion and then the ability to walk among society like nothing happened. He also wants to apologize to his father. As he was in his last moments he called for him to help but Elie remained still fearing his life, not

comforting him watching, his father die. He wants to promote the glory and truth books and their purpose and why they were written. His finally reason was to the survivors who choose to testify, for the duty is clear,

to speak for the living and the dead. Elie Wiesel did not believe it was his destiny to survive and write this book he believes he lived by chance and felt that it was his duty to write it. To inform the world what happened

at Auchwitz.

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.

[] || He is the head of propaganda

The censored music, books and the radios They burned books that didn’t agree with Nazi veiws. They sold cheap radios and broadcasted Hilters speeches in the streets. || []
 * ** 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?

[] || It happened on November 9–10, 1938 it means “the night of broken glass”

Reinhard Heydrich, the chief of the Reich Security Main Office, Heinrich Himmler's top deputies; SS Major General Heinrich Müller, chief of RSHA Department IV (Gestapo), l Adolf Eichmann, chief of the RSHA Department IV B 4 (Jewish Affairs)were a few. They decided to kill 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” || Romas, homosexuals, johavas witnesses, afro Germans, poles and soviet prisoners of war. There fait was death. ||
 * ** The Ghettos ** || Describe the three types of ghettos, their purpose, and locations.

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What was life like in the ghettos? [] || Open, Close and destruction.

It was overcrowded and station was common. There was barley any medicine or housing It was a step up from the concentration camps. || []
 * ** 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?

[] || At labor camps you would be forced to make German war goods. You had a chance at survival. Death camps are self-explanatory. They were built for killing. Many were gassed, shot or burned. || []
 * ** 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 Soviets did.

He killed himself.

They were 21 and they represented the Nazi party.

Following Orders. ||

  **Assignment 3:Images of Night**

Hungarian Police

Hungarian Police Angry, Mean Beating, Yelling, and Oppressing Beating Jews like they were merely flies The devils puppets Screaming Pushing down a road of stone