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toc =Elizabeth M. Night Assignments=

Assignment 1: Reasons for Writing
Elie’s Reasons for putting it on Paper

In the nonfiction novel //Night// written by Elie Wiesel, Elie has many reasons for writing this book. Elie’s reasons for writing about this extremely difficult event is to explain the challenges he had to go through while looking straight into the face of death. One reason Elie Wiesel wrote this book is so he “would not go mad, or, on the contrary, to go mad in order to understand the nature of madness...that had erupted in the conscience of mankind.” Another reason why he wrote it is to leave behind memories so to prevent history from repeating itself. A third reason is to simply preserve the record of the event because many denied the existence of the awful occurrence. Even though he himself doesn’t believe that his so called “destiny” was to write this intriguing book, Elie felt as if he needed to give some meaning to his survival. A fourth reason was to protect the meaning that Elie set to paper an experience in which nothing made any sense at all. A fifth reason was because he wanted people to at least understand the importance what happened during this disgusting time period. To sum it up, the reasons behind writing this book are strongly supported, because without them, one would not have a way of knowing about the true perspective of a survivor and the horror of living through the Holocaust.

Assignment 2: Holocaust Web Search

 * Topics to Know || Questions || Answers ||
 * Nazi Propaganda**

Who is Joseph Goebbels? He was Hitler's Minister of Propaganda and one of the most important and influential people in Nazi Germany.

List three things the Nazis did to ensure that their views were shown/heard in the most persuasive manner possible. film, Reich Chamber of Commerce which introduced censorship, and Hitler sold cheap radios so that everybody could hear his speeches.

HYPERLINK " [|__http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/propaganda_in_nazi_germany.htm__] " [|__http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/propaganda_in_nazi_germany.htm__]


 * Kristallnacht/ The Final Solution/**
 * Wannsee Conference**
 * Wannsee Conference**

What is Kristallnacht and what does the word mean? When did it happen? Kristallnacht, or “Night of Broken Glass” (reference to the many broken windows that had been destroyed during riots against Jews), is the Jewish riots that burned/destroyed 267 synagogues, vandalized or looted 7,500 Jewish businesses, and killed at least 91 Jewish people. It happened on November 9-10, 1938

HYPERLINK " [|__http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/focus/kristallnacht/__] " [|__http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/focus/kristallnacht/__]

Who attended and what was decided at the Wannsee Conference ? many representations were at the Wannsee Conference (1) to inform and secure support from government ministries and other interested agencies relevant to the implementation of the “Final Solution,” and (2) to disclose to the participants that Hitler himself had tasked Heydrich and the RSHA with coordinating the operation.

What was the Final Solution? The " [|**__Final Solution__**] " was the code name for the systematic, deliberate, physical annihilation of the European Jews. HYPERLINK " [|__http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005477__] " [|__http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005477__]


 * The Victims**
 * The Victims**

Besides the Jewish people, list seven other groups were also targets/victims of the Holocaust? Roma (Gypsies), people with disablitlies, Poles, Soviet prisoners of war, and Afro-Germans, Jehovah’s Witnesses, homesexuals

Briefly tell the fate of each group under Nazi rule. -Roma(Gypsies): arbitrary internment, forced labor, and mass murder. -disablities: Euthanasia program was a murder program which killed mentally and physically disabled patients living in institutional settings. -Poles: murdered thousands and the men were required to perform forced labor. -Soviet prisoners: murdered

HYPERLINK " [|__http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10007457__] " [|__http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10007457__]


 * CLUE: Begin reading at “Targeted Groups” ||  ||
 * The Ghettos**

Describe the three types of ghettos, their purpose, and locations. ghettos were city districts (often enclosed) in which the Germans concentrated the municipal and sometimes regional Jewish population and forced them to live under miserable conditions. Ghettos isolated Jews by separating Jewish communities from the non-Jewish population and from other Jewish communities. German-occupied and annexed Oland and the soviet union was were they were located. HYPERLINK " [|__http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005059__] " [|__http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005059__]

What was life like in the ghettos? starvations, chronic shortages, severe winter weather, unheated houses, epidemics, etc. very hard livng conditions. HYPERLINK " [|__http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10007445__] " [|__http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10007445__]

There were two kinds of camps: labor camps and death/extermination camps. What is the difference between the two? labor camps where thousands of prisoners died from exhaustion, starvation, and exposure. death camps was where they were killed immediately.
 * The Camps**
 * The Camps**

HYPERLINK " [|__http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005144__] " [|__http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005144__]

What were the conditions? brutal and harsh.

=What different types of extermination were performed? gas chambers, weaponry killing=

HYPERLINK " [|__http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005145__] " [|__http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005145__]


 * The Liberation & The Nuremberg Trials**
 * The Liberation & The Nuremberg Trials**

Who liberated the camps? Soviets HYPERLINK " [|__http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005131__] " [|__http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005131__]

What did Hitler do near the end of the war? committed suicide

How many defendants were charged during the Nuremberg Trials? 24 What did they represent? represented a cross-section of German diplomatic, ecomonic, political, and military leadership. men who committed unspeakable crimes though HYPERLINK " [|__http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10007143__] " [|__http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10007143__]

What did the International Military Tribunal decide was not a legitimate defense? “following orders” HYPERLINK " [|__http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10007142__] " [|__http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10007142__]

=Assignment 3: Images of Night= **Ghettos** Ghettos Compact and temporary Transporting, captivating and hoping Like a cage for animals and as fake as an impersonator Lying Inside barbed wire for the unwanted