Transcript The Holocaust - Thurgood Marshall Middle School

The Holocaust
English Cluster
2-27-08
Questionnaire Three
 Is there an African American section of
California? If so, where is it located?
 Is there a White area of California? If so,
where?
 Is there an area restricted to one race,
religion, or national origin? Where?
 What would the consequence be for someone
in the “wrong” race,religion, or ethnic make-up
to reside in that restricted area?
Q Three Cont’d….
 Why do some people join groups such as the
KKK?
 Discuss how prejudice and discrimination are
not only harmful to the victim, but also those
who practice these beliefs.
 Is it possible to grow to adulthood without
harboring at least some prejudice towards
minorities?
 What can YOU do to fight prejudice in your
school or neighborhood?
Cover of Night
 The cover of Night
 Contains a picture of
 A loan man surrounded
 By barbed wire. Create
 A list of words this picture
 Brings to mind. Choose
 One of the words and write a brief
 Quickwrite that reflect the feelings
 That this word evokes.
Summary of Night
 Night is Elie Wiesel’s personal account of the
Holocaust as seen through the eyes of a 15year-old boy. The book describes Wiesel’s first
encounter with prejudice and details the
persecuation of people and the loss of his
family. Wiesel’s experiences in the death
camps of Auschwitz and Buchenwald are
detailed; his accounts of starvation and
brutality are shattering-a vivid testimony to the
consequences of evil.
Summary Continued
Throughout the book, wiesel speaks of
the struggle to survive, the fight to stay
alive while retaining those qualities that
make us human. While Wiesel lost his
innonance and many of his beliefs, he
never lost his sense of compassion nor
his inherent sense of right.
Let’s meet the people….
 Elie Wiesel: the narrator and author of the novel, Night.
 Chlomo Wiesel: Elie’s father. They manage to stay together
during their deportment.
 Idek: A crazy Kapo who beats Elie.
 Rabbi Eliahous: this rabbi’s son deserts him on order to survive.
Elie prays that he will never grow so callous towards his own
father.
 Heinrich Himmler: Hitler’s second in command and the head of
the S.S. He established Dachau, the first Nazi concentration
camp.
 Adolph Hitler: Dictator of Germany
 Dr. Mengele: the “Angel of Death”; a doctor who performed
brutal, unecessary experiments and operations.
Places….
 Sighet, Hungary: Elie’s hometown
 Kaschau, Chechoslovakia: the first concentration camp Elie and
his father arrive at after their deportation from Sighet. It is there
that they see their wife, mother sisters, and daughters for the last
time.
 Auschwitz, Poland: home of a concentration camp opened in
April, 1940
 Birkenau, Poland: The Wiesel’s arrive at this concentration camp
in May of 1944
 Buchenwald, Germany: home of a concentration camp opened in
July, 1937. Elie and his father are taken here in January 1945.
Jewish Terms
 Torah: The primary source in the Jewish religion in the Hebre Bible. The
Torah includes the first five books in the Bible.
 Talmud: Next in importance to the Hebrew Bible is the Babylonian
Talmud, a collection of teachings.
 Cabbala: Hasidic Jews also read this mystical commentary on the Torah.
 Rosh Hashanah: Marks the new year of the Jewish calendar.
 Yom Kippur: This is the holiest day of the Jewish calendar. This is
considered to be the day which every individual is judged by God.
 Passover: An eight-day festival commemorating the freeing of Israelites
from Egyptian bondage.