1. Elie Weisel’s Night

2. Overview
Elie Weisel’s Life
The Holocaust

3. 1928 Born in Sighet, Romania
Population of ,000 Jewish souls before World War II
Only a handful of them live in the town today

4. 1944 Deported to Auschwitz
- Auschwitz was a Nazi death camp during the Holocaust
Over 4 million Nazi prisoners died
Mostly Europeans of Jewish decent
Prisoners were transported there from 20 different countries.
Elie Weisel’s family perished while at the death camp
Liberated by Russian troops on January 27, 1945

5. 1958 Night is published 1986 Awarded Nobel Peace Prize
Brings attention to a topic that had previously been considered hard to address.
Caters new approach to studying the Holocaust
1986 Awarded Nobel Peace Prize

6. Holocaust Not one event, cause or person, it was a movement.
Collection of Fascism, irresponsible civic leadership, strong propaganda and economic depression.
Systematic persecution and eventual murder of the Jewish population in Europe.
Anyone not considered perfect: gypsies, homosexuals, Jehovah Witnesses, Catholics and mentally retarded and/or handicapped and disabled people were all victimized.
Hitler is responsible for the death of OVER six million (6,000,000) Jewish people, alone.

7. January 1933
The National Socialists Party overthrew the German government with a plan to take over the rest of Europe. Their ideas about government were extremely radical and violent. They blamed much of their country’s problems on immigrants and the Jewish population.
January 30, 1933 – Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany, his National Socialists Party gains control of the government three months later.

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Jewish people were forced to where a yellow star on their clothing at all times and in the window of their homes and businesses.

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Arrested Jewish people being transferred to a train station to be sent to a concentration camp.

10.
Concentration camps were a way for Hitler and his Nazi party to systematically remove Jewish people from Germany and the countries under his power. Never in the history of man has there been such an organized way of genocide. Pictures like this one help us remember so it won’t happen again.
Picture of some of the dead outside the crematory in Dauche, a concentration camp near Munich

11. March 1945
Women prisoners waiting to be registered in the Bergen-Belson concentration camp.
Prisoners in Auschwitz Concentration Camping

12. May 7, 1945 Germany surrenders May 7, 1945.
May 8 is considered Victory in Europe Day or VE Day!