The Holocaust and Elie Wiesel

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The Holocaust and Elie Wiesel

• By Moses Timali

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The World Prior To WWII

• Time Frame- 1933-1945
• World is suffering from Depression
• World figures- Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt
• Hitler came into power in 1933

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Introducing the Wiesel Family

• From the town Sighet of Transylvania
• Elie Wiesel lives with his mother, father, and
  three sisters.
• They speak Yiddish
• They carry out their business outside of home
  speaking German, Hungarian, and Romanian.
• Pictured is Elie Wiesel at 15yrs old.

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Elie Wiesel

• He 15 years old at this time
• He spends a lot of time with his family
• He also studies a lot and is very religious
• Elie and his family, along with their community,
  thought they were safe from the Nazis and their
  cruel ways
• Pictured is a typical community before the reign
  of the Nazis

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The Horror Begins

• In 1944 15 yr old Elie and his family were
  deported to concentration camps in Poland.
• Elie was then separated from his mother and
  little sister.
• Elies mother and little sister die in the
  concentration camp.

• Elies father succumbed to dysentery, starvation,
  exhaustion, and exposure.
• Elie and his two older sisters survived the
  concentration camps.

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What the Nazis Did

• The Nazis started by going door to door arresting
  and sometimes murdering Hitlers enemies and
  those against his regime.
• They aimed to brainwash the Germans into
  believing their regime.
• Those who didnt were killed. This was called the
  Nazi Propaganda Ministry.

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What the Nazis Did Cont.

• The Nazis were trying to make a dominant race
  called the Aryan "master race.
• In doing so the Nazis victimized Gypsies who were
  about 30,000 in Germany, by sterilization.
• They also did this to handicaps, the mentally
  ill, and people born deaf and blind.
• Also victimized were a group of about 500
  African-German children.
• The group that was seriously targeted were the
  Jewish.

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Hitlers Final Solution

• The Nazis made six different extermination
  camps
• Most of the deportees were immediately murdered
  in large groups by poisonous gas.
• Their goal was to remove all Jews from Europe
• In 1941 this came to be known as the final
  solution- the systematic murder of European
  Jewry.

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Aftermath and Conclusion
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• In 1945 the war ended with Germany surrendering
  and Hitler committing suicide.
• From January 30, 1933 to May 8, 1945 an estimate
  of 5,860,000 Jewish people were killed.About
  5,000,000 who were not Jewish were also killed.

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Elies Path

• Elie Wiesel best says it "to remain silent and
  indifferent is the greatest sin of all
• Nobody should ever forget the horrible pain and
  suffering those victims had to go through. Those
  things should never happen to anyone.
• Pictured is Elie now

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Elies Accomplishments

• Elie Wiesel has been an Andrew Mellon Professor
  of Humanities at Boston University.
• He has been the Author of 36 works, but most
  known for his book "Night."
• Elie won the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1986.

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Todays World

• There are still hate crimes happening all around
  the world.
• We need to be aware that it happens everyday, and
  we need to stop it together.

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