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Bellwork: In your notebook

Bellwork: In your notebook. Agree/Disagree + Explain why: Educated, cultured people are more likely to do good for their society . Religion will be the anchor when all else fails . Evil is done by bad people who have no consciences .

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Bellwork: In your notebook

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  1. Bellwork: In your notebook Agree/Disagree + Explain why: Educated, cultured people are more likely to do good for their society. Religion will be the anchor when all else fails. Evil is done by bad people who have no consciences. When civilization has been stripped away, man cannot function.

  2. By Elie Weisel “Never shall I forget that first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night. Never shall I forget that smoke. Never shall I forget the little faces of the children, whose bodies I saw turned into wreaths of smoke beneath a silent blue sky.” An Introduction toNight

  3. BackgroundWritten in the mid-1950s by elie Wiesel after 10 years of silence *Published in 1958 in Yiddish*Published in 1960 in English

  4. Brief Biography of Elie Wiesel • Wiesel was born in Sighet, Transylvania, on September 30, 1928 (Sighet has long been claimed by both Hungary and Romania and, in the 20th century, has changed hands repeatedly, a hostage to the fortunes of war) • His parents, Shlomo and Sarah, were Orthodox Jews who owned a grocery store. His father was a well respected and admired community leader. • He had two older sisters, Hilda and Bea, and a younger sister, Tsiporah.

  5. Brief Biography of Elie Wiesel • When he was three years old, Wiesel began attending a Jewish school where he learned Hebrew and studied the Torah. • He also spent time talking with Moshe, a Hasidic caretaker in his synagogue who taught Wiesel about the mysteries of Judaism. • Elie was 15 years old when the Nazis deported him and his family to Auschwitz-Birkenau.

  6. Important Jewish Texts • Eliezer, like Elie Wiesel, studied the Torah and the Talmud. A page of the Talmud The Torah

  7. Hasidic Jews (like Moshe the beadle) A Hasidic Jew Praying at the Western Wall in Jerusalem Hasidic children

  8. The HolocaustA Human Genocide • 1939 – Hitler starts invading Europe and starts his ‘Ethnic Cleansing’ campaign. • 1941 – 1st concentration camp is opened. • 1945 – war ends and camps are dispersed. • By the time WWII is over, almost 2/3 of the Jewish people in Europe lost their lives, around 6,000,000. • The average life span at a concentration camp was 4 months.

  9. Motifs The Motifs for this novel are: Night- This time of day means different things to the author throughout the story. Eyes- Used to characterize and show how circumstances change people. A recurring subject, object or idea, that can help to develop and inform the text’s major themes.

  10. Themes revolve around the following topics: Death- emotional and physical Faith- struggle to believe in God, in humanity and in ones self. Human Dignity in the face of inhumane cruelty Self-preservation vs. family

  11. The Ghetto Comes from an Italian term to denote the Jewish banker’s neighborhood in Venice in the 14th century. It had a positive connotation. The term fell out of usage in the 1700’s. Adolph Hitler used the word ghetto to describe the segregated neighborhoods he imposed upon the Jewish people, where they were confined until being sent to the concentration camps. America started using the term after WWII for the segregated urban neighborhoods of the African Americans.

  12. A Nazi about to shoot the last Jew left alive in Vinica, Ukraine. Children subjected to medical experiments in Auschwitz. In many ways, The Holocaust was, ‘to imagine the unimaginable’. There were first hand accounts and other indicators along the way, but no one could believe the horror, even after they saw or experienced it.

  13. Genocide Geno- cide Geno – from the Greek word genos, which means birth, race, of a similar kind -Cide – from the French word cida, which means to cut, kill

  14. Genocide Today Africa Rwanda , Africa 1994 Racial prejudice and genocide are still prevalent in the world. Darfur region of Sudan Africa 2007

  15. Genocide TodayTibet Tibetans gunned down by Chinese Sign on top of a Himalayan pass Where Tibetans try to cross into India “There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.” Elie Wiesel

  16. Other Countries Sufferingfrom Genocide Armenia Bosnia

  17. Essential questions… How does Elie Wiesel convey the inhumanity and humanity associated with the Holocaust in the novel Night? What is his purpose in writing Night? What is the significance in remembering past genocides or crimes against humanity? What social responsibility do we have to prevent future crimes against humanity?

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