~Night~ ~By: Elie Wiesel~

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Night By Elie Wiesel

• Niky Kmiec
• And
• Khristen Logan

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The truth about the Holocaust!

• What I already knew

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Things I knew before

• Before reading about this book I knew that the
  Holocaust was real.
• I knew that people tried to forget the things
  that happened

• I knew a lady that was in the Holocaust. She use
  to tell my grandmother stories about what
  happened. She is a very paranoid person,and
  refuses to leave her house.
• The lady that I knew is very afraid of people and
  has a number tattooed on her right for-arm.

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What I learned

• Lectures,
• Holidays,
• Traditions

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Mr.Factors lecture.

• During his lecture I learned that most of the
  death camps were in Poland, except one that was
  in Maidonek.
• There were certain camps made for only women.
• Belsen, Bergan was a place where they dumped a
  lot of the bodies.

• He talked about how Ann Franks family was on the
  last train to Westerbork.
• Every city had a railroad way to Aushwitz.
• There was a sign above the camp to Aushwitz that
  read ARbEIT MARCHT FREI which means work will
  make you free.

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Mr.Factor 2

• Block 11 was in Aushwitz, this was the torture
  block where they conducted experiments on twins.
• The Jews had to sleep in barracks that were set
  up military style. The beds were mad out of wood
  and maybe some straw to sleep on. There were 700
  people or more to a barrack.

• In Aushwitz, they had an orchestra that played
  for everything. The real meaning behind the band
  was a warning purpose mostly.
• He also talked about a revolt in 1944 where they
  blew up a crematory
• Over I million people died in Aushwitz
• Nuremberg trials-24 on trial and 21 died.

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Jewish traditions!

• Yom Kippur is probably the most important holiday
  of the Jewish year. Many Jews who do not observe
  any other Jewish custom will refrain from work,
  fast and/or attend
• synagogue services on this day.

• Yom Kippur occurs on the 10th day of Tishri. The
• holiday is instituted at Leviticus 2326 et seq.
• The name "Yom Kippur" means "Day of Atonement,"
  and that pretty much explains
• what the holiday is. It is a day set aside to
  "afflict the soul," to atone for the sins of the
  past year.

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More On Yom Kippur!

• Yom Kippur has its own candlelighting blessing.
  If the holiay coincides with Shabbat,the words in
  parentheses are added
• Baruch atah adonai eloheinu melech ha'olam asher
  kid'shanu b'mitzvotav v'tzivanu l'hadlik neir
  shel (shabbat v'shel) you hakippurim.

• After the candles are lit, the Shehecheyanu
  prayer is recited.
• The prayer to the left has something to do with
  blessed the name that is out lord, watch over us
  and protects us.
• I dont know exactly what that means.

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Rosh Hashanah

• Rosh Hashanah occurs on the first and second days
  of Tishri. In Hebrew, Rosh Hashanah means,
  literally, "head of the year" or "first of the
  year." Rosh Hashanah is commonly known as the
  Jewish New Year. This name is somewhat deceptive,
  because there is little similarity between Rosh
  Hashanah, one of the holiest days of the year,
  and the American midnight drinking bash and
  daytime football game.

• There is, however, one important similarity
  between the Jewish New Year and the American one
  Many Americans use the New Year as a time to plan
  a better life, making "resolutions." Likewise,
  the Jewish New Year is a time to begin
  introspection, looking back at the mistakes of
  the past year and planning the changes to make in
  the new year. More on this concept at Days of
  Awe.

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Shavuot

• The period from Passover to Shavu'ot is a time of
  great anticipation. We count each of the days
  from the second day of Passover to the day before
  Shavu'ot, 49 days or 7 full weeks, hence the name
  of the festival. See The Counting of the Omer.
  Shavu'ot is also sometimes known as Pentecost,
  because it falls on the 50th day. The counting
  reminds us of the important connection between
  Passover and Shavu'ot Passover freed us
  physically from bondage, but the giving of the
  Torah on Shavu'ot redeemed us spiritually from
  our bondage to idolatry and immorality.

• It is noteworthy that the holiday is called the
  time of the giving of the Torah, rather than the
  time of the receiving of the Torah. The sages
  point out that we are constantly in the process
  of receiving the Torah, that we receive it every
  day, but it was first given at this time. Thus it
  is the giving, not the receiving, that makes this
  holiday significant

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The Torah!

• The word "Torah" is a tricky one, because it can
  mean different things in different contexts. In
  its most limited sense, "Torah" refers to the
  Five Books of Moses Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus,
  Numbers and Deuteronomy. But the word "torah" can
  also be used to refer to the entire Jewish bible
  or in its broadest sense, to the whole body of
  Jewish law and teachings.

• Bereishith (In the beginning...) (Genesis)
• Shemoth (The names...) (Exodus)
• Vayiqra (And He called...) (Leviticus)
• Bamidbar (In the wilderness...) (Numbers)
• Devarim (The words...) (Deuteronomy)

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World War 2

• When the Nazis came to carry out their genocidal
  programme, they found collaborators in all the
  countries they dominated, including governments
  that enjoyed considerable public support. Most
  people drew the line at mass murder, but
  relatively few could be found to oppose it
  actively or to extend help to the Jews.

• Aushwitz-Birkenau became more than a
  concentration camp. In 1942 gas chambers were
  built at Birkenau and mass transport of Jews
  began to arrive. Some new arrivals were
  registered, and others were taken straight to the
  gas chambers.

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More on WW2

• Total, about 900,000 people were gassed at
  Birkenau without even being registered. Almost
  all of them were Jews. There were also Catholics
  and Slavs.This brought the death total at
  Aushwitz to about 1.1million, 1million of which
  were Jewish.

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The Story

• ARbEIT
• Marcht
• FREI

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The Notebook events.

• This is a story about a boy, Elizer Wiesel.
• Throughout this story we can see that he loses
  his faith completely after being in a camp for so
  long.
• The theme of this story is the Holocaust.

• He talks about what he goes through while at the
  various camps and the different ways he gets
  treated.
• As he describes the different things that happen,
  he says that as soon as the women, elderly, and
  children got off the train, they were sent to the
  crematories.

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The Camps!

• They were expelled from Sighet and were sent to
  Galicia where they were told to work.
• Then they were sent to the small ghetto, not a
  camp, but a place of holding for the dispatcher
  to a camp.
• Was also in Auschwitz/Birkenau where now a
  modern-day Poland is. Its a country that was
  annexed by Germany in 1939.

• They were also in Buna where they got a chance
  be treated like humans. This is a camp in a part
  of Auschwitz.
• They were also in Gleiwitz and Bunchwald.
• Geliwitz is a camp in Poland and Bunchwald is a
  camp in Germay.

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Reflection

• What I Think

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My Feelings

• I think that the way the PEOPLE were treated was
  wrong because even though a person is of
  different decent or ethnic background or they
  have a different sexual preference doesnt mean
  that you should discriminate on them for
  something as small as that.

• The way they thought that the women were week and
  they just killed them as soon as they got off the
  train was wrong. They were willing to kill a
  women who had a chance then an old man who was
  suffering just because he was a man.

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Pictures!
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Religion as a discrimination

• I think that people discriminate against other
  people because they dont live the same way as
  you do. I also hate the way that Hitler and his
  army of idiots blamed the Jews for everything and
  every problem in Germany so they killed them all.
  I alos dont think that its fare that we only
  here about the Jews. There were also Catholics
  and other religions in the camps too.

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What I learned!

• I think that anybody that has any questions or
  needs to find anything out about how the camps
  actually worked, Night would be a book that I
  would definitely recommend. I think that people
  only believe what they hear about the Holocaust
  instead of actually finding things out for
  themselves and they get lost and make something
  else up in the place of what they didnt get. I
  think that the world likes to forget things like
  this that happened but you cant do that because
  if you dont know what happened back then, how
  are you going to understand where you came from
  and how to change it? Things cant stay the same
  forever and people cant keep treating other
  people like this so we need to learn from our
  mistakes and change the future.