The Holocaust and Night

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The Holocaust and Night

The story of Night The novel begins in Sighet, Transylvania. During the early years of World War II, Sighet remained relatively unaffected by the war. The Jews in Sighet believed that they would be safe from the persecution that Jews in Germany and Poland suffered.

Before the War Jews were living in every country in Europe before the Nazis came into power in 1933 Approximately 9 million Jews Poland and the Soviet Union had the largest populations Jews could be found in all walks of life: farmers, factory workers, business people, doctors, teachers, and craftsmen Group portrait of members of the Jewish community of Sighet in front of a wooden synagogue. 1930-1939.

Anti-Semitism Nazi teachers began to apply the “principles” of racial science by measuring skull size and nose length and recording students’ eye color and hair to determine whether students belonged the the “Aryan race.” Basically means “the hate of Jews”. Jews have faced prejudice and discrimination for over 2,000 years. Jews were scapegoats for many problems. For example, people blamed Jews for the “Black Death” that killed thousands in Europe during the Middle Ages.

In 1944, however, Elie and all the other Jews in town were rounded up in cattle cars and deported to concentration camps in Poland.  They were sent to Auschwitz

Former prisoners of the "little camp" in Buchenwald stare out from the wooden bunks in which they slept three to a "bed." Elie Wiesel is pictured in the second row of bunks, seventh from the left, next to the vertical beam

After surviving the Nazi concentration camps, Wiesel vowed never to write about his horrific experiences. He eventually changed his mind and wrote Night in 1955. Wiesel won the Nobel Prize in 1986 

The Nazi Plan 1. Expulsion: Get all Jews out of Germany 2. Containment: Put them all together in one place – namely ghettos 3. “Final Solution”: annihilation

Persecution Most of the gas chambers used carbon monoxide from diesel engines. In Auschwitz and Majdanek “Zyklon B” pellets, which were a highly poisonous insecticide, supplied the gas. After the gassings, prisoners removed hair, gold teeth and fillings from the Jews before the bodies were burned in the crematoria or buried in mass graves.

Nazis targeted other individuals and groups in addition to the Jews: Gypsies (Sinti and Roma) Homosexual men Jehovah’s Witness Handicapped Germans Polish Political dissidents

 A German police officer examines the identification papers of Jews in the Krakow ghetto, circa 1941.

Jewish people were identified by the triangle and their ID #.

Kristallnacht The “Night of Broken Glass” on November 9-10, 1938 Germans attacked synagogues and Jewish homes and businesses

Jews, like all other German citizens, were required to carry identity cards, but their cards were stamped with a red “J.” This allowed police to easily identify them.

The Nazis used propaganda to promote their anti-semitic ideas. One such book was the children’s book, The Poisonous Mushroom.

After the War Soviet soldiers were the first to liberate camp prisoners on July 23, 1944, at Maidanek in Poland. British, Canadian, American, and French troops also liberated camp prisoners. Troops were shocked at what they saw.

Most prisoners were emaciated to the point of being skeletal Many camps had dead bodies lying in piles “like cordwood.” Many prisoners died even after liberation.

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