The Holocaust and Elie Wiesel

1. The Holocaust and Elie Wiesel By: Moses Timali Please click the mouse button to advance to the next slide.

2. The World Prior To WWII • Time Frame- 1933-1945 • World is suffering from Depression • World figures- Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt • Hitler came into power in 1933

3. Introducing the Wiesel Family • From the town Sighet of Transylvania • Elie Wiesel lives with his mother, father, and three sisters. • They speak Yiddish • They carry out their business outside of home speaking German, Hungarian, and Romanian. • Pictured is Elie Wiesel at 15yrs old. www.achievement.org/.../ photos/wie0-010a.gif

4. Elie Wiesel • He 15 years old at this time • He spends a lot of time with his family • He also studies a lot and is very religious • Elie and his family, along with their community, thought they were safe from the Nazis and their cruel ways • Pictured is a typical community before the reign of the Nazis www.newcastle.gov.uk/.../ 1.5-happy-childhood.jpg

5. In 1944 15 yr old Elie and his family were deported to concentration camps in Poland. Elie was then separated from his mother and little sister. Elie’s mother and little sister die in the concentration camp. Elie’s father succumbed to dysentery, starvation, exhaustion, and exposure. Elie and his two older sisters survived the concentration camps. The Horror Begins

6. What the Nazis Did • The Nazis started by going door to door arresting and sometimes murdering Hitler’s enemies and those against his regime. • They aimed to brainwash the Germans into believing their regime. • Those who didn’t were killed. This was called the Nazi Propaganda Ministry. www.thinkhistory.btinternet.co.uk

7. What the Nazis Did Cont. • The Nazis were trying to make a dominant race called the Aryan "master race”. • In doing so the Nazis victimized Gypsies who were about 30,000 in Germany, by sterilization. • They also did this to handicaps, the mentally ill, and people born deaf and blind. • Also victimized were a group of about 500 African-German children. • The group that was seriously targeted were the Jewish. www.atlanticbooks.com

8. Hitler’s “Final Solution” • The Nazis made six different “extermination camps” • Most of the deportees were immediately murdered in large groups by poisonous gas. • Their goal was to remove all Jews from Europe • In 1941 this came to be known as the “final solution”- the systematic murder of European Jewry. disillusionedkid.blogspot.com www-sul.stanford.edu

9. Aftermath and Conclusion english.people.com.cn www.humanityinaction.org • In 1945 the war ended with Germany surrendering and Hitler committing suicide. • From January 30, 1933 to May 8, 1945 an estimate of 5,860,000 Jewish people were killed.About 5,000,000 who were not Jewish were also killed.

10. Elie’s Path • Elie Wiesel best says it "to remain silent and indifferent is the greatest sin of all” • Nobody should ever forget the horrible pain and suffering those victims had to go through. Those things should never happen to anyone. • Pictured is Elie now www.cabrini.edu

11. Elie’s Accomplishments • Elie Wiesel has been an Andrew Mellon Professor of Humanities at Boston University. • He has been the Author of 36 works, but most known for his book "Night." • Elie won the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1986. www.thehoya.com

12. Today’s World • There are still hate crimes happening all around the world. • We need to be aware that it happens everyday, and we need to stop it together. rc.org/uer/ jay-english2.jpg