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Assignment 1: Reasons for Writing
David Copeland English 8P-7 January-26-2010

Elie Wiesel: Holocaust Survivor

Elie Wiesel wrote this book to “prevent the enemy from enjoying one last victory by allowing his crimes to be erased from human memory.” Another reason he wrote this book was to inform readers on what it was like to live in a concentration camp. Due to the fact that there were so few survivors of the holocaust, Wiesel felt obligated to write about his personal experiences. Another reason why Wiesel wrote this story was to make sure nobody forgot what happened during the Holocaust. Although the Holocaust was a true event, many people don’t believe that it happened which is another reason why Wiesel wrote this book, to inform others on what happened.

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.

__http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/propaganda_in_nazi_germany.htm __ || Joseph Goebbels was in charge of propaganda for Germany. The thing that Nazis did to ensure that their views were shown or heard was to ensure that nobody in Germany could read or see anything that was damaging to the Nazi Party. The next was to make sure that the views of the Nazis were used in the most persuasive manner possible. To make sure that everybody thought in the correct manner. || __http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/focus/kristallnacht/ __
 * **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?

__http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005477 __ || Kristallnacht was a night of anti- Jewish riots and means “Night of the Broken Glass”. Kristallnacht happened on November 9-10, 1938. The 15 top beurocrats coordinated the final solutiion.The final solution was Hiltlers plan to finally kill all Jews. ||
 * **The Victims ** || <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">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.

__<span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">http://www.ushm#m.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10007457 __<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">

CLUE: Begin reading at “Targeted Groups” || Besides the Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals, mentally retarded, physically disabled, and some Asians and Africans were killed. All were killed together at either death or concentration camps. ||
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">The Ghettos ** || <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Describe the three types of ghettos, their purpose, and locations.

__<span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">http://www.ushm#m.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005059 __<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">

What was life like in the ghettos? __<span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">http://www.u#shmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10007445 __ || The closed Ghetto was closed off by walls or barbed wire and were the main type of ghetto. Their perpose was to keep Jews until they can go to the camp. Open ghettos were in Poland and the Soviet-Union and had no walls or fences. Destruction ghettos were tightly sealed off and last for little time. Jews were eitherkilled or sent to camps and were lcated in Lithuania, Hungary, and the Ukraine. The ghettos had very little water, food, and shelter || __<span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">http://www.ushmm.org/#wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005144 __<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">The Camps ** || <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">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?

__<span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=1000#5145 __ || At the labor camps most people just worked under harsh conditions but at death camps people were killed by being shot or poisoned. The conditions at the camps were awful due to over work and little food There were many types of extermination including gassing and shooting people || __<span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">http://www.us#hmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005131 __<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">The Liberation & The Nuremberg Trials ** || <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">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? __<span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId#=10007143 __<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">

What did the International Military Tribunal decide was not a legitimate defense? __<span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=100#07142 __ || The Soviets liberated the camps including Auchwitz. Near the end of the war Hitler killed himself. Nineteen defendants were charges during the Nuremberg Trials and this represented the amount of people convicted.The International Military Tribunal decided that "following orders" was not a leginimate defense for criminal acts. ||

=**Assignment 3: images of night**=

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; text-align: center;">Piercing Voice

Piercing Voice Loud and shrill Screaming, weeping, and agonizing Like the how of a wolf and as disturbing as a ghost A whistle in the wind Blowing In a cloud of dust