An Introduction to Night By Elie Wiesel

HOLOCAUST What do you know about the Holocaust? Where did you learn it? What literature of the Holocaust have you already read? What people have you met, movies have you seen, stories have you heard? Do you have a personal connection with someone who experienced the Holocaust?

Defintion The Holocaust was the systematic, bureaucratic, state- sponsored persecution and murder of 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 an alien threat to the so-called German racial community.

Film As you watch the film The Path to Nazi Genocide, answer the discussion questions. https://youtu.be/sRcNq4OYTyE