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Assignment 1: Reasons for Writing
Elie Wiesel

Elie Wiesel decided to write the memoir //Night because he felt he needed to share his // experience in Auschwitz and Buchenwald with other people. He also felt that he wrote it to understand

“The nature of madness that had erupted in history and in the conscience of mankind”. Or even to

preserve a record of the experience of the camps when he was a teenager. Maybe he wanted to remind

people how terrifying I was, so it would not happen again. He does not want these atrocious crimes to

be forgotten, and the perpetrators forgiven. Last, he could have written it because he refuses to forget

his mother, sisters, and father.

Assignment 2: Holocaust Web Search
b 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.

[] || Joseph Goebbels is the Nazi head of propaganda.

The Nazis monitored media, gave out people’s receivers, and produced propaganda movies. || []
 * ** 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 means night of the broken glass, it was where the Germans attacked Jewish shops.

15 high ranking Nazi officials were there, and the final solution was decided.

The final solution was the extermination of 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” || The afro-Germans, Poles, Soviet prisoners of war, Jehovah’s witnesses, homosexuals, gypsies, and people with disabilities.

They were killed. ||
 * ** The Ghettos ** || Describe the three types of ghettos, their purpose, and locations.

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What was life like in the ghettos? [] || Closed ghettoes were in Poland and the USSR. Walls and fences with barbed wire closed them off. Life was very hard because of food shortages.

Open Ghettoes had no walls or fences, but had restrictions on entering and leaving. These were in Ukraine.

Destruction Ghettoes were tightly sealed off and existed as temporary living until the inhabitants were moved to death 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?

[] || Labor camps were where the prisoners worked; death camps were where prisoners were exterminated.

The conditions were very poor.

They would gas them and shoot them and then burn them. || []
 * ** 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 aliies liberated the camps.

Hitler shot himself.

12 defendants were charged, they represented Nazi Germany.

The defense was that they were only following orders. ||

= **A****s** **signment 3: Images of Night**  = Crematorium Red and cold Burning, killing, forgetting Like a monster, as cold as Antarctica A killing machine To kill and to forget = = = = = = = = = =