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Night (pages 66-116). Tara Woglom Andrew Spangenberg Austin Stebbins. Contentent. Summer of 1944: while in the concentration camps the Jews try to celebrate Rosh Hashanah Eliezer has lost his faith in God and people He becomes separated from his father to work in a building unit
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Night(pages 66-116) Tara Woglom Andrew Spangenberg Austin Stebbins
Contentent • Summer of 1944: while in the concentration camps the Jews try to celebrate Rosh Hashanah • Eliezer has lost his faith in God and people • He becomes separated from his father to work in a building unit • His father is too weak so will be executed so he gives Eliezer his knife and spoon
Content • Luckily there was a 2nd selection within the group and so Chlomo (his father) survived • During winter Eliezer’s foot swells so he goes through an operation • Germans hear Russia is coming so they begin to evacuate • They evacuate to Buna on a trip over night
Content • After there trip they wind up running 42 miles to a deserted village • Finally they arrive a gleiwitz camp • They don’t get food or water for three days and then there is a selection • They are then forced into cars again to Buchenwald where 100 are taken but only 12 survived (Eliezer and Chlomo survive)
Content • After the trip his father is extremely sick and unable to move • January 29, 1945 his father was taken to the crematory • April 10th American armies come and there is 20,000 still in the camp • April 11th they arrive at Buchenwald • Eliezer is strucken with food poisoning and dies
Characters • Eliezer • He is the main character/narrator • Forced to a camp where his family is separated • Works and almost lives until the very end • Chlomo • Eliezer’s father • He and Eliezer really try to stay together • Dies at the end
Characters • Moshe the Beadle: Eliezer’s teacher who is sent to a camp but, escapes and returns home to tell all of the horrors he has seen. • Hilda - Eliezer’s oldest sister. • Béa - Eliezer’s middle sister. • Tzipora - Eliezer’s youngest sister.
Settings • Auschwitz • Nazi concentration camp • Millions died • Gleiwitz: • Another concentration camp • Buchenwald: • The third concentration camp
Questions • Who was the leader of the Nazi’s? • Who was the one who escaped the massacres of the Jews? • What was the purpose of a concentration camp? • After being evacuated from their homes, where do the Jews first set off?