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THE HOLOCAUST The Holocaust was the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of approximately six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. "Holocaust" is a word of Greek origin meaning "sacrifice by fire." The Nazis, who came to power in Germany in January 1933, believed that Germans were "racially superior" and that the Jews, deemed "inferior," were "life unworthy of life." During the era of the Holocaust, the Nazis also targeted other groups because of their perceived "racial inferiority."

THE HOLOCAUST Holocaust: name given to the period of persecution and extermination of European Jews by Nazi Germany. Anti-Semitism: form of prejudice against Jews, ranging from antipathy to violent hatred.

THE HOLOCAUST Concentration Camp: a detention site outside the normal prison system created for military or political purposes to confine, terrorize, and in some cases, kill civilians.

THE HOLOCAUST Genocide: the intentional and systematic destruction, wholly or in part, by a government of a national, racial, religious, or ethnic group.

THE HOLOCAUST National Socialism: or Nazism, doctrines and policies of the National Workers’ party, which ruled Germany under Adolf Hitler from 1933 to 1945.

THE HOLOCAUST Secret Police: the German secret police had its genesis in the SS, or Schutzstaffel (defense echelon), created as Hitler’s bodyguard under the SA (the military arm of the Nazi Party).

THE HOLOCAUST “Have no pity. Act brutally.” -Adolf Hitler The persecution and death was not limited to adults. All children and babies were targets as well. It was an attempt at the eradication of a race.

THE HOLOCAUST “Have no pity. Act brutally.” -Adolf Hitler Children died.

THE HOLOCAUST “Have no pity. Act brutally.” -Adolf Hitler

THE HOLOCAUST “Have no pity. Act brutally.” -Adolf Hitler Children died. “Have no pity. Act brutally.” -Adolf Hitler

THE HOLOCAUST At one point in the novel Elie Wiesel is debating on throwing himself on a electrified barbed wire fence.

THE HOLOCAUST “ They worked us to death, froze us to death, starved us to death , and beat us to death.” -Joseph R. Mullican

THE HOLOCAUST Many were killed. Mass graves were a common way of disposing of bodies.

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THE HOLOCAUST Women were not exempt from the killing. There were no exceptions.

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Elie Wiesel…. A voice crying in the darkness. NIGHT Elie Wiesel…. A voice crying in the darkness.