1. The Holocaust
English Cluster

2. 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?

3. 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?

4. Cover of Night Quickwrite that reflect the feelings
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.

5. Summary of Night
Night is Elie Wiesel’s personal account of the Holocaust as seen through the eyes of a 15-year-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.

6. 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.

7. 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.

8. 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, Elie and his father are taken here in January 1945.

9. 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.