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Night
Elie Wiesel

2. The Holocaust
The word holocaust describes the genocide, the systematic mass murder, of over 6,000,000 Jews during World War II ( ).

3. The word genocide comes from two terms:
geno: meaning a race, tribe, or nation
and
cide: meaning killing

4. The word holocaust comes from two terms:
Holo: meaning whole, entire
and
caust: meaning burnt

5. When does “genocide” occur? What situation allows or causes this?

6. Steps in Hitler’s “evacuation” of Jews in Germany.
All foreign Jews were expelled from country. The German army moves into towns and cities. Close temples down; arrest Jewish leaders; All Jews must stay in their homes for three days; Jews cannot own gold, jewelry, businesses, or valuables.

7. Steps in Hitler’s “evacuation” of Jews in Germany.
All Jews given identification (yellow star). Criminal activity to go about town without it. Jews not allowed in restaurants; no travel on railroads; curfew—6 p.m. Jews then moved into Ghettos—small areas of cities—overcrowded and mistreated. Transport to concentration camps.

11. Auschwitz consisted of these three types of camps:
Concentration
Extermination (Auschwitz II/ Birkenau)
Labor

12. Auschwitz Death Camp, Poland

13. Poland

14. Work makes you free

17. Buchenwald

23. Elie Wiesel

24. -Wiesel was born on September 30, 1928 in Sighet, Transylvania (Romania in the Carpathian Mountains).

25. There he lived with his parents and three siblings – older sisters Hilda and Beatrice, and younger sister Tzipora.
Beatrice and Hilda survived the war and were reunited with Wiesel at a French orphanage. Their parents and Tzipora did not survive.

26. Tzipora, mother, and Elie

27. In 1944, Wiesel, his family, and the rest of the town were placed in one of the two ghettos in Sighet. Wiesel and his family lived in the larger of the two, on Serpent Street.
On May 6, 1944, the Hungarian authorities allowed the German army to deport the Jewish community in Sighet to Auschwitz.

36. After the Horror
Elie later learned that his mother and youngest sister died in the gas chambers at Auschwitz.
His two older sisters had survived
After the liberation, Elie lived in a French orphanage
He began to study philosophy, literature and psychology in Paris
He became a journalist for a French newspaper
He also began to find his faith again in the Jewish traditions

37. Elie’s Achievements
Wiesel has written various novels about his experiences during the Holocaust including “Night”
He has written over 40 novels in his lifetime
He also won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986

38. In His Own Words
I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented ~Elie Wiesel