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Night by Elie Weissel

Night by Elie Weissel. Elie ( Eliezer ) Wiesel is a novelist, journalist and Nobel Prize winner. He was born an Orthodox Jew in Rumania, survived the concentration camps and wrote about his experiences.

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Night by Elie Weissel

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  1. Night by ElieWeissel Elie (Eliezer) Wiesel is a novelist, journalist and Nobel Prize winner. He was born an Orthodox Jew in Rumania, survived the concentration camps and wrote about his experiences. He became a spokesman for survivors and dedicated his life to recording the horrors of the Holocaust and helping victims of oppression and racism.

  2. What does holocaust mean? • Holocaust comes from Greek holokauston • That which is completely burnt • 17th century, broadened to “something totally consumed by fire”

  3. The word antisemitismmeans prejudice against or hatred of Jews. The Holocaust, the state-sponsored persecution and murder of European Jews by Nazi Germany and its collaborators between 1933 and 1945, is history’s most extreme example of antisemitism.

  4. Why did Hitler hate the Jews? • Holocaust happened because Hitler and the Nazis were racist. • They believed the German people were a 'master race', who were superior to others. They even created a league table of 'races' with the Aryans at the top and with Jews, Gypsies and black people at the bottom. • These 'inferior' people were seen as a threat to the purity and strength of the German nation. When the Nazis came to power they persecuted these people, took away their human rights and eventually decided that they should be exterminated.

  5. What is a death camp? • A death camp camp is a concentration camp with special apparatus especially designed for mass murder. Six such camps existed: Auschwitz-Birkenau, Belzec, Chelmno, Majdanek, Sobibor, and Tremblinka. All were located in Poland.

  6. Did the Jews resist? • Many Jews simply could not believe that Hitler really meant to kill them all. But once the Nazis had complete control and the Jews were being relocated to ghettos, rations were reduced, conditions were horrible and the Jews did not have the strength, physically, emotionally, or militarily, to resist. There were uprisings in the camps, but it was incredibly difficult and rarely successful. Elie Wiesel put it this way: "The question is not why all the Jews did not fight, but how so many of them did. Tormented, beaten, starved, where did they find the strength - spiritual and physical - to resist?" Those attempting to resist faced almost impossible odds.

  7. Key Players • Leaders that are in control • Perpetrators, Conspirators • Victims • The targets of the oppression • Bystanders Stand by and allow this to happen. Don’t help • Rescuers • Hid the victims at great personal risk • Liberators • Frees the victims

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