Intro to NIGHT

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Intro to NIGHT

• By Elie Wiesel

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Elie Wieselearly years

• Sept. 30, 1928 Born in Sighet, Romania
• 1944 Deported to Auschwitz
• Jan. 1945 Father dies in Buchenwald
• April 1945 Liberated from concentration camp
• Survived Auschwitz, Buna, Buchenwald and Gleiwitz
• Gate at Auschwitz reads Work makes one free

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ElieAfter liberation

• Takes a 10 year vow of silence (regarding the
  events of the Holocaust)
• 1948 Moved to Paris to study _at_ the Sorbonne
• 1948 Began work in journalism
• 1954 Decided to write about the holocaust
• 1958 Night is published

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Eliededicates life to ensuring that we never
forget what happened to the Jews

• 1963 Received U.S. citizenship
• 1978 Appointed chair of Presidential Commission
  on the Holocaust
• 1980 Commission is renamed U.S. Holocaust
  Memorial Council
• 1985 Awarded the Congressional Medal of
  Achievement
• 1986 Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
• 1995 Published memoirs

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Let us remember, let us remember the heroes of
Warsaw, the martyrs of Treblinka, the children of
Auschwitz. They fought alone, they suffered
alone, they lived alone, but they did not die
alone, for something in all of us died with
them. - Elie Wiesel
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It must be the prayer of our generation that with
his help we can recapture enough of that reality
so that it will never happen again. - Robert
McAfee Brown
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HITLER
Write his name (Hitler) on the top of your paper.
As I give you information about him, write down
any words to describe him that come into your
mind.
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A brief history of Hitlers rise to power

• April 21, 1889 Born in Austria
• Class clown
• Wanted to be an artist Academy of Fine Arts
  rejects him twice
• Went to Vienna to be a bum
• Went to Munich arrested for draft evasion
• Failed his physical for Austrian army went to
  Germany to join the German army

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In German Army

• Earned the Iron Cross, promoted 1st and 2nd class
• Other promotions delayed because of his lack of
  leadership
• Wounded and sent to Berlin where his hatred for
  the Jews began to form

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• Sept. 1919 - After his discharge from German
  army, he became a political spy infiltrate new
  political parties.
• This is how he became involved in the Nazi party.
• He eventually became the power of the Nazi party
  formed the SA (sturmabteilung) thugs in
  uniform

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• Nov. 8, 1923 Attempted to take over the German
  government.
• Arrested and sentenced to 5 years in prison.
  Only served 9 months. Received red-carpet
  treatment.
• In prison he wrote Mein Kampf (My Struggle) the
  Nazi Bible.
• It stated his objectives and gave more insight
  into his personality.

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THE BIG LIE

• No matter how obviously false it is, if it is
  repeated loud enough and often enough, people
  will believe it.
• This was KEY to his plans for the Jews because he
  saw them as the cause of Germanys economic
  problems.

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Germany needs fixing

• Hitler wants Germany to be THE world power.
• Focuses on two key areas Vision of Germany as a
  world power through German national pride.

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3rd Reich

• 1000 Year Kingdom
• Hitler saw 1st reich as the Holy Roman Empire and
  the 2nd reich as Imperial Germany
• His 3rd Reich was to be the greatest of all.

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Aryans

• The German ideal source of national pride!
• Big, blond-haired, blue-eyed, clean-limbed.
• Germans very concerned with genealogies
• People were rated by their ethnic and racial
  backgrounds.

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Protection Violence

• 1932 Forms SS (Schutzstaffel), his private body
  guard
• The Waffen S.S. combat and best known
• The Regular S.S. Hitlers body guards
• The Death Head S.S. Special killing units that
  worked the concentration camps

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The Gestapo

• 1934 Hitler forms secret police
• Himmler was in charge
• Hitler divided govt. into sections of power to
  keep any one group from becoming powerful enough
  to overthrow his government.

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Anti-Semitism

• 1933 S.A. called for a complete boycott of the
  Jews and used violence to enforce it.
• It attracted much sympathy. Later, Hitler
  created more subtle ways to hurt them through a
  series of laws against Jews

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Nuremberg Laws 1935

• Section 1Marriages between Jews and citizens of
  German or some related blood are forbidden. Such
  marriages contracted despite the law are invalid,
  even if they take place abroad in order to avoid
  the law.
• Section 2Sexual relations outside marriage
  between Jews and citizens of German or related
  blood are forbidden.
• Section 3Jews will not be permitted to employ
  female citizens of German or related blood who
  are under 45 years as housekeepers.
• Section 41. Jews are forbidden to raise the
  national flag or display the national colors.2.
  However, they are allowed to display the Jewish
  colors. The exercise of this right is protected
  by the State.
• Section 51. Anyone who disregards Section 1 is
  liable to penal servitude.2. Anyone who
  disregards the prohibition of Section 2 will be
  punished with imprisonment or penal servitude.3.
  Anyone who disregards the provisions of Sections
  3 or 4 will be punished with imprisonment up to
  one year or with a fine, or with one of these
  penalties.

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More laws against Jews

• Among other things, Jews were banned from working
  for the state or being employed as lawyers,
  doctors or journalists. Jews were prohibited from
  using hospitals and could not be educated past
  the age of 14. Public parks, libraries, beaches
  were closed to Jews. War memorials were to have
  Jewish names expunged. Even the lottery could not
  award winnings to Jews.
• Jews were required to adopt a middle name "Sara"
  for women and "Israel" for men. Their
  identification cards were required to have a
  large "J" stamped on them.

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What kind of man was he how could he become so
powerful?

• Your thoughts???