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Start-Up - Discussion. 1/30/18. How familiar are you with the events of World War II? How familiar are you with the persecution of the Jewish people (the Holocaust)? Discuss these topics with your group briefly. Start-Up - Writing. 1/30/18.

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  1. Start-Up - Discussion 1/30/18 How familiar are you with the events of World War II? How familiar are you with the persecution of the Jewish people (the Holocaust)? Discuss these topics with your group briefly.

  2. Start-Up - Writing 1/30/18 How familiar are you with the events of World War II? How familiar are you with the persecution of the Jewish people (the Holocaust)? Share, briefly in writing, any facts you know about these two topics.

  3. Unit Objectives Analyze a particular point of view or cultural experience reflected in a work of literature from outside the United States, drawing on a wide reading of world literature. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.6

  4. Unit Objectives Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in the text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the cumulative impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone (e.g., how the language evokes a sense of time and place; how it sets a formal or informal tone). CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.4

  5. Unit Objectives Analyze how an author's choices concerning how to structure a text, order events within it (e.g., parallel plots), and manipulate time (e.g., pacing, flashbacks) create such effects as mystery, tension, or surprise. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.5

  6. Today’s Objective By the end of the period, students will be able to understand background information related to the novel Night and its author, Elie Wiesel which will prepare them for the reading of the novel.

  7. NightElie Wiesel Eliezer "Elie" Wiesel Born: September 30, 1928 Sighet, Kingdom of Romania Died: July 2, 2016 (aged 87) Manhattan, NY Romanian-born American Jewish writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate, and Holocaust survivor. Elie his mother and sisters in 1939 before the war came to their home. He was the author of 57 books, written mostly in French and English, including Night, a work based on his experiences as a prisoner in the Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps.

  8. Elie Wiesel at 15 In March 1944, Germany occupied Hungary which extended the Holocaust into that country. Wiesel was 15, and he with his family, along with the rest of the town's Jewish population, were placed in one of the two confinement ghettos set up in Máramarossziget (Sighet), the town where he had been born and raised. In May 1944, the Hungarian authorities, under German pressure, began to deport the Jewish community to the Auschwitz concentration camp, where up to 90 percent of the people were exterminated on arrival. This is how Wiesel would have appeared before going into the concentration camp.

  9. Sighet to Auschwitz

  10. Auschwitz. The Auschwitz concentration camp complex was the largest of its kind established by the Nazi regime. It included three main camps. All three camps used prisoners for forced labor. One of them also functioned for an extended period as a killing center. The camps were located approximately 37 miles west of Krakow.

  11. 1.1 million died in the years that the camp was in operation , 90 percent of them Jews. Others deported to Auschwitz included 150,000 Poles, 23,000 Roma and 15,000 Sinti.

  12. First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a communist;Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a trade unionist;Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew;Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak out for me. Martin Niemöller (1892–1984) Jews were not the only people who were imprisoned in WWII by Nazi forces: homosexuals, convicted criminals, emigrants, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Catholics, and those who were considered physically or mentally handicapped were also incarcerated.

  13. Selection The Jews who were sent to Auschwitz, and then assigned to work at Monowitz, had a much better chance of survival because the factory workers were considered too valuable to send to the gas chambers, at least while they were still able to work.

  14. Experimentation Dissection Table: after a “patient” died the doctors performed “dissections” in order to find the exact cause.

  15. The Furnace: in Buchewald the dead were placed into the crematorium.

  16. Evacuation The largest Auschwitz sub-camp, called Buna, was located here from 1942 to 1945. The Nazis sent thousands of prisoners from various countries, the majority of them Jewish, to Buna (there were approximately 10,000 prisoners in this camp in 1944). A significant proportion of them died because of arduous slave labor, starvation, savage mistreatment, and executions. Those who were unable to go on working fell victim to selection and were taken to their deaths in the Birkenau concentration camp gas chambers. The Evacuation of the children from Buna.

  17. Some camps did not have time to evacuate before Allied Forces reached them; here are two such camps where American soldiers were met with cheers and seen as saviors.

  18. After the Camp • After Elie was freed he spent several months in the hospital fighting infections that ravaged his body.

  19. Family Reunited When Wiesel was released from the hospital, he had no family to return to. He joined a group of 400 orphan children being taken to France. Upon arrival, he tried to immigrate to Palestine but was not allowed. From 1945 to 1947, he was in different homes in France found for him by a Jewish group called the Children’s Rescue Society. In 1947, he began to study French with a tutor. By chance, Wiesel’s sister, Hilda, saw his picture in a newspaper and got in touch with him. Months later, Wiesel was also reunited with his sister Bea in Antwerp.

  20. 1969--married Marion Rose 1972--son is born 1978--appointed chair of Presidential Commission on the Holocaust 1980--Commission renamed U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council 1985--awarded Congressional Gold Medal of Achievement 1986--awarded Nobel Peace Prize 1986-The Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity 1995--publishes memoirs 1996- Beit Tzipora Centers open 2016 – Wiesel died in his home in Manhattan, NY Elie Wiesel – Later Life

  21. 1/30/18 Exit Ticket Look at the quote below again. What do you think was the point that Niemoller was trying to make? First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a communist;Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a trade unionist;Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew;Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak out for me. Martin Niemöller (1892–1984)

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