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Holocaust March 27, 2006 Mr. Crabtree / Mr. Walker

Holocaust March 27, 2006 Mr. Crabtree / Mr. Walker. Introduction Who is Elie Wiesel? The cover of “Night” Read / listen to “Night” Analyze a character. Elie Wiesel. Born September 30, 1928 Sighet, Hungary Father Shlomo; Mother Sarah Three sisters: Hilda Beatrice Tzipora

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Holocaust March 27, 2006 Mr. Crabtree / Mr. Walker

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  1. HolocaustMarch 27, 2006Mr. Crabtree / Mr. Walker Introduction Who is Elie Wiesel? The cover of “Night” Read / listen to “Night” Analyze a character

  2. Elie Wiesel • Born September 30, 1928 Sighet, Hungary • Father Shlomo; Mother Sarah • Three sisters: • Hilda • Beatrice • Tzipora • Father owned grocery store • Arrested for helping Polish Jews • Hungary became German ally in 1940. • 1944 all Jews in Sighet were transported to Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp

  3. Life in Auschwitz • Elie was 15 • Tattooed with A-7713 on left arm • Sent to Buna – Werke work camp at Auschwitz • Moved to Buchenwald Death Camp in early 1945 • Stayed with father till January 28, 1945 when he died from being beaten by a guard • Camp was liberated by American Third Army later that year

  4. Life After the War • Studied Philosophy and Journalism in 1948 • Wrote for Israeli and French newspapers • Moved to New York in 1955 • Became U.S. citizen in 1963 • Appointed Chairman of the Presidential Commission on the Holocaust from 1978-1986 • Pushed for the creation of the Holocaust Museum in Washington D.C. • Awarded Nobel Peace Prize 1986

  5. Books • Night (Hill and Wang 1960; Bantam) • Dawn (Hill and Wang 1961; Bantam) • The Accident (Le Jour) (Hill and Wang 1962; Bantam) • The Town Beyond the Wall (Atheneum 1964) • The Gates of the Forest (Holt, Rinehart and Winston 1966) • The Jews of Silence (Holt, Rinehart and Winston 1966) • Legends of our Time (Holt, Rinehart and Winston 1968) • A Beggar in Jerusalem (Random House 1970) • One Generation After (Random House 1970) • Souls on Fire (Random House 1972) • Night Trilogy (Hill and Wang 1972) • The Oath (Random House 1973) Ani Maamin (Random House 1973) • Zalmen, or the Madness of God (Random House 1974) • Messengers of God (Random House 1976) • A Jew Today (Random House 1978) • Four Hasidic Masters (University of Notre Dame Press 1978) • Images from the Bible (The Overlook Press 1980) • The Trial of God (Random House 1979) • The Testament (Summit 1981)

  6. Books Continued… • Five Biblical Portraits (University of Notre Dame Press 1981) • Somewhere a Master (Summit 1982) • The Golem (Summit 1983) • The Fifth Son (Summit 1985) • Against Silence (Holocaust Library 1985) • Twilight (Summit 1988) • The Six Days of Destruction (Paulist Press 1988) • A Journey of Faith (Donald I. Fine 1990) • From the Kingdom of Memory (Summit 1990) • Evil and Exile (University of Notre Dame Press 1990) • Sages and Dreamers (Summit 1991) • The Forgotten (Summit 1992) • A Passover Haggadah (Simon and Schuster 1993) • All Rivers Run to the Sea: Memoirs, Vol. I, 1928-1969 (Knopf 1995) Memoir in Two Voices, with François Mitterrand (Arcade 1996) • And the Sea is Never Full: Memoirs Vol. II, 1969 (Knopf 1999) King Solomon and his Magic (Greenwillow 1999) • Conversations with Elie Wiesel (Schocken 2001) • The Judges (Knopf 2002) • Wise Men and Their Tales (Schocken 2003) The Time of the Uprooted (Knopf 2005)

  7. Night • Refused to write and talk about Holocaust • 1952 Francois Mauriac convinced him to write about Holocaust • 1960 “Night” is published • 800 page manuscript • First published as a 253 page book in Yiddish • Compressed to 127 pages and published in English

  8. Night • Focuses on four main themes: • Death • Memory • Faith • Night

  9. What are three things you see in the picture? • What is the look on the person’s face? • What is the person thinking/feeling? • Why would the cover have these things on it?

  10. Characters • Moshe the Beadle • Jews of Sighet • Elie Wiesel • Father Wiesel • Hilda Wiesel • Bea Wiesel • Tzipora Wiesel • Madame Schacter • Hungarian Police • German soldiers at Auschwitz

  11. HolocaustApril 3, 2006Mr. Crabtree / Mr. Walker Review book Listen to Book Character Paper

  12. Characters • Father Wiesel (50 years old) • Eli Wiesel (15 years old) • Mother Wiesel (? years old) • Tzipora Wiesel (8 years old) • German Guards at Auschwitz • Jewish leaders of Barracks • Stein (relative from Antwerp) • Madame Schacter • Hungarian Police • Moshe the Beadle

  13. HolocaustApril 5, 2006Mr. Crabtree / Mr. Walker • Finish the chapter • Review book • Newspaper Headline assignment

  14. Newspaper Headlines • Get into a group of 2 or 3 • Choose three events that have happened throughout the book so far • Create a Newspaper Headline and story about each event • Each Newspaper Headline and story must include: • A catchy headline about the event • A story that tells what happened and summarizes the event • A picture that represents the event • Due at the end of class

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