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toc =Jonathan GB. //Night// Assignments=

Assignment 1: Reasons for writing
The Suvivor Elie Wiesel wrote the novel Night to tell the readers what happened in the concentration camps that jewish were held in. Wiesel wanted the readers to feel what the jewish felt when they were in the camps. Wiesel also wanted to share is experience that he had of his dad being beating to death. Wiesel wanted to show people the pain that these people were going through in the camps. He, wanted the readers to feel the pain that they were going through. Wiesel was only 15 when he went to the concentration camp. Elie had been through his mother, sister, and other family members dying in the gas chambers. He has seen young innocent children transformed 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.  [] || # Goebbels set up the Reich Chamber of Commerce in 1933 []
 * 1) Disobedience brought with it severe punishments
 * 2) You could only read, see and hear what the Nazis wanted you to read, see and hear and if you believed what they said, there power would be small. ||
 * **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 is a riot agains jews. Kristallnacht meants “night of broken glass” November 9-10, 1938

The “Final solution" was the code name for the systematic, deliberate, physical annihilation of the European Jews ||
 * __Reinhard Heydrich __**
 * __<span style="color: #316db5; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Heinrich Himmler __**
 * __<span style="color: #316db5; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Adolf Eichmann __**
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">The Victims ** || <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">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” ||

Jehovahs wittnesses Roma People with disabilities Poles Soviet prisoners of war Afro-Germans Homosexuals ||
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">The Ghettos ** || <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Describe the three types of ghettos, their purpose, and locations.

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What was life like in the ghettos? [] || Warsaw Ghetto - poland Jewish Council To place jews separate from the world. <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">[|**Lodz**], [|**Krakow**], [|**Bialystok**], [|**Lvov**], [|**Lublin**], [|**Vilna**], [|**Kovno**],

Life in the ghettos were terrible. Children eating on the side of the streets. || []
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">The Camps ** || <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">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?

[] || Labor camps is were they made you do work all day. Death/Extermination camps is where they killed you anyway possible.

Gas chambers, being beating to death. || []
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">The Liberation & The Nuremberg Trials ** || <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">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? [] || United States

Killed himself.

24. Nazis

<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">As reflected in the range of criminal charges brought before these courts ||

=**Assignment 3: Images of Night**= Ghetto

Ghetto Trapped and restricted Cramped, Hungry, Thirsty Lots of people in a small space like peole in an elevator A prison without bars Holding In countries of Nazis