Number your paper and write Agree or Disagree for each.

1. Revenge is a justifiable emotion.2. All is fair in love and war.3. Lying is justifiable when it’s for the right

reasons.4. Some people are better than others.5. You should never give up.6. Love can change a person for the better.7. Forgiveness is the only way to happiness.

Essential Questions for Night1. How should we remember past

genocides or crimes against humanity? Why should we?

2. How does human conflict at all levels impact society and the people in it?

3. What social responsibility do we have to prevent future crimes against humanity?

4. What does Night reveal about human tendencies to resist and/or improve crimes against humanity? 2

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Types of Nonfiction Biography – a writer’s

account of another person’s life.

Autobiography – a writer’s account of his/her own life.Personal narratives -diaries,

journals,& letters Memoir - short autobiographical

work focusing on a specific experience

Night is a Memoir

Historical Core Conceptsto “understand” the Holocaust

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Pre-War

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Jewish community of Sighet in front of a wooden synagogue. 1930-1939.

Jews lived in every country in Europe before the Nazis came into power in 1933

9 million Jews

Most were in Poland and the Soviet Union

Anti-SemitismDefinition: prejudice against or hostility

towards Jews.Jews were scapegoats for many problems.

For example, people blamed Jews for the Plague in the Middle Ages.

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Anti-SemitismHitler’s party, the

Nazis, used propaganda.

Children read & played with books and board games that made fun of Jews.

Students were forced into the Nazi Youth.

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How did Hitler Gain Influence?

Germany lost World War IGermans had to repay 70 billion

dollars to countries “damaged.” Blamed Jews Great Depression came = German money worthless 6 million Germans unemployed. Hitler was a spell-binding speaker. Promised a

newer, better Germany

Hitler’s Government Totalitarian – government

that has total controlCan do whateverHitler = Chancellor, but

became a dictator. Nuremberg Laws – took

away German citizenship from Jews.

ID Cards - All Germans were required to carry ID cards. Jews cards were stamped with a red “J.” Why?

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3 Step Plan

The Nazi plan for dealing with the Jews:

1. Expulsion Get them out of Germany2. Containment Put them all together in one

place (ghettos)3. “Final Solution” kill them

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1) Expulsion

Nazis targeted other individuals and groups :

Gypsies (Sinti/Roma)

Homosexual menJehovah’s

WitnessesHandicapped

GermansPolish peoplePolitical opponents

Sophie’s Choice Clip

2) ContainmentForced Jews to

live in ghettos.Ghettos = closed

areas contained by barbed wire or walls and guarded by SS (Nazi police) or local police.

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3) Final Solution

Mobile killing squads made up of SS units and police killed Jews in mass.

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3) Final Solution Six death camps

Auschwitz-Birkenau Used gas chambers to

murder prisoners. The gas chambers were called “showers.”

Used carbon monoxide from diesel engines and insecticide.

After, prisoners removed hair, gold teeth and fillings before the bodies were cremated or buried in mass graves. 15

I cannot teach this book. Instead, I drop copies on their desks,like bombs on sleeping towns,and let them read. So do I, again.The stench rises from the pageand chokes my throat.The ghosts of burning babieshaunt my eyes.And that bouncing baton,that pointer of Death,stabs me in the heartas it sends his motherto the blackening sky.Nothing is destroyedthe laws of science say,only changed. The millions transformed intoprecious smoke rode the windto fill our lungs and heartswith their cries.

No, I cannot teach this book.I simply want the wordsto burn their comfortable soulsand leave them scarred for life.

"On Wiesel's Night“by:

Thomas E. Thorton

Elie Wiesel

The BookWon Nobel Prize

Why study the Holocaust?

Aftermath

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Themes in the story Death – shown through loss of family, torture

and death of prisoners, and the smell of death Faith – Even though Elie questioned his faith at

first, he never lost it Hatred – the Nazis killed and tortured others for

no other reason than hate Loss of Innocence – Elie was young and

innocent before he was taken to the camps. He saw things he never realize could happen. The torture and death of his family brought him pain, but it also made him grow up and face reality

Lessons LearnedFirst They Came for the Jews

By Pastor Martin Niemöller 

First they came for the Jews and I did not speak out — because I was not a Jew.  Then they came for the communists and I did not speak out — because I was not a communist.  Then they came for the trade unionists and I did not speak out — because I was not a trade unionist.  Then they came for me — and by then there was no one left to speak out for me.

To Do - Tuesday1. Write a sentence with each vocab word

and turn in to the purple basket.2. Read Chapter 1 silently

Chapter 11. What does Elie desire to study?2. Who does he get to help him?3. What happens to Moshe the Beadle?4. What does Moshe say happened while he was away?5. Why don’t any of the townspeople believe Moshe?6. What kind of position does Elie’s father have in the

community?7. What kind of relationship do Elie and his father have at

the beginning of the novel?8. Where are the Jews sent first after the arrival of the

German soldiers?

Chapter 2

1. Why was the train uncomfortable?2. How many people ride on each train car?3. Why do they not try to get off the train?4. What news do they then receive of where

they are to be located?5. What does Mrs. Schachter see in her

premonition? How is the foreshadowing?6. How do the passengers deal with Mrs.

Schachter? What do these actions tell you about human nature?

Chapter 3

1. What happens to Elie’s family when they reach the camp?

2. What advice do Elie and his father receive from one of the camp prisoners about age?

3. What occupation does Elie say he is?4. What happens to those who are skilled workers?5. What do Elie and the others recite as they are

nearing the crematory?6. What new name does Elie receive at the camp?

Chapter 4

1. What happens to people with gold teeth or crowns?

2. What type of treatment do the men receive at the factory?

3. How does Elie manage to keep some of his teeth temporarily?

4. What happens to people who disobey the rules of the camp?

5. Why does the hanging of the “pipel” stay in Elie’s mind?

Chapter 51. How do the prisoners celebrate Rosh Hashanah?2. How do they celebrate Yom Kippur?3. Why doesn’t Elie celebrate?4. What advice does the block head give the men before selection?5. What does Elie’s father give him when he thinks he has been

selected?6. What happens to Akiba Drumer?7. What promise do Elie and his father make Akiba? Do they keep

their promise?8. Why does Elie go to the doctor?9. Who does the prisoner next to Elie in the hospital think has kept

the most promises?10. Why do Elie and his father decide to leave with the evacuation?11. Why does the head of the block order the men to clean the

barracks before leaving?

Chapter 6

1. How do the men travel to Gleiwitz?2. What happens to the men as they travel if

they are slow? (2 answers)3. What is Juliek’s broken violin a symbol of?4. What happens to the men who fall asleep in

the caved-in brick factory where they pause to rest on the journey?

5. What do the men do to make up for the fact that they have nothing to drink? What do the SS do when they see this?

Chapters 7 & 81. How do the men treat each other on the train

ride to Buchenwald?2. How many men arrive at Buchenwald? How

many were originally on the train?3. What does Elie’s father choose for himself?4. Why does Elie take his father to the doctor?5. What is the last work that Elie’s father says?6. What are Elie’s conflicting emotions with his

father’s death?

Chapter 9

1. What does Elie’s only concern become?

2. What do the prisoners never think of after being liberated?

3. What does Elie call himself after he looks in the mirror?