1. Crimes Against Humanity
Bellwork
Define the following terms in your own words:
Genocide
Holocaust
Crimes Against Humanity

2. Crimes Against Humanity
Share with a partner your definition & then come up with a common definition for each of the terms.
Be ready to share.
Genocide
Holocaust
Crimes Against Humanity

3. Genocide Geno- cide Write this down!
The term “genocide” did not exist prior to 1944.
Geno-
cide
Geno – from the Greek word genos, which means birth, race, of a similar kind
-Cide – from the French word cida, which means to cut, kill

4. Holocaust Holo- caust Write this down!
-caust – from the Greek works kaustos or kautos which means burnt
Holo – from the Greek word olos, which means “whole”
Derived from the Greek holokauston which meant a sacrifice totally burned by fire.

5. Holocaust
Appearing as early as the fifth century B.C., the term can mean a sacrifice wholly consumed by fire or a great destruction of life, especially by fire.
Today, the term refers to the systematic planned extermination of about six million European Jews and millions of others by the Nazis between

6. Crimes Against Humanity
Defined by the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court Explanatory Memorandum, "are particularly odious offences in that they constitute a serious attack on human dignity or grave humiliation or a degradation of one or more human beings.”

7. Crimes Against Humanity
Crimes against humanity defined by the Allies in article 6 (c) of the Nuremberg Charter (August 8, 1945) as follows: “murder, extermination, enslavement, deportation, and other inhumane acts committed against any civilian population…

8. Wainwright, English, Novel introduction
Analyze
“To forget, is to repeat”
“Not trying to understand, is to condone.”
Wainwright, English, Novel introduction

9. Memoirs
Night by Elie Wiesel

10. What is a Memoir? First person narratives in the writer’s voice
Express the writer’s feelings and opinions about events
Gives insight into the impact of history on people lives

11. How is it different from an autobiography?
Usually only covers a portion of the author’s life
Autobiographies tell a life story
Biographies tell the life story written by a third party

12. Wainwright, English, Novel introduction
Theme
Theme: a central idea, or insight into life, that runs throughout a piece of literature
Ex: A theme in To Kill a Mockingbird is “prejudice”
Wainwright, English, Novel introduction

13. Themes in Night Struggle to Maintain Faith Emotional Death
Dignity in the Face of Inhuman Cruelty
Self-Preservation vs. Family Commitment

14. Theme Illustrated
 Choose 1 Theme from Night that we discussed in class.
On your paper complete the following:
Define it in your own words
Illustrate the theme; what images come to mind when you think about this theme?
The entire white box must be colored!! Make it nice!

15. Night
By Elie Wiesel
“Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed. Never shall I forget that smoke. Never shall I forget the little faces of the children, whose bodies I saw turned into wreaths of smoke beneath a silent blue sky.” Elie Wiesel
Use the space provided to jot down some of your ideas about what are characteristics of a good short story:

16. Why did Elie Wiesel write Night?
Read along on pages vii-x
After reading, answer the question above

17. Preface to Night, pg. xv
“Sometimes I am asked if I know the ‘response to Auschwitz’; I answer that not only do I not know it, but that I don’t even know if a tragedy of this magnitude has a response. What I do know is that there is ‘response’ in responsibility. When we speak of this era of evil and darkness, so close and yet so distant, ‘responsibility’ is the key word. The witness has forced himself to testify. For the youth of today, for the children who will be born tomorrow. He does not want his past to become their future.” -Elie Wiesel