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==Directions for Holocaust Picture:  ==  1. Choose 1-3 pictures/paintings/still lives/photographs that Ms. Needleman has approved of that shows a strong emotion and creates a good mood. 2. You may create a web or rough draft of the topics or ideas that you will want to go over in your paragraph. 3. For your **__topic sentence__** you should have a unique and interesting intro. You want to be able to grab the reader's attention. You also will want to introduce the topic in a very appropriate way that will flow throughput the whole paragraph. 4. Using some of your ideas from the web that you have made, you will have to write three well developed examples that **__support__** 5. You want to keep the paragraph by describing in detail and using **__voice__**. You can do this by using sensory detail, descriptive language, and maybe even an attempt to use a simile, metaphor, or personification in your paragraph. If you want to go above and beyond, you should effectively use a simile, metaphor, or use of personification to create a good image to the reader. 6. For the last sentence, it should always be a **__conclusion__**. The conclusion should wrap up the paragraph and make it all connect. It needs to be clear and it also should make a connection to life today.
 * Rough draft and a final draft and the rubric!!!!!**

__Holocaust Paragraph:__

__**The Devastating Time**__ Could you ever imagine a time when millions of people could be killed and tortured just for their religion? The Holocaust was a devastating time period for newish people and people from other ethnic groups. These people were sent to concentration camps. When they got there the children and their mothers were automatically killed, then the men were sent to work. After many years of torture and starvation, the men become unhealthy and unable to work so they are killed. This is due to the general's belief that because they can't work they have no meaning for living. When the have brutally slaughtered those people they are just thrown in a corner with millions of other dead bodies. The dead bodies lay there like rotting piles of logs, whose burly knots stare lifelessly at you forever. Even though this horrible time has now past, still today some people discriminate against others for their religion. the topic. If you want to go above and beyond, you can also provide an analysis of the topic.

 __**Night Assignments**__ __**By: Elie Wiesel**__ __Pages 1-20:__
 * What are the signs of trouble?**


 * a.** Page #4: Moshe the Beadle had escaped the Gestapo's after he was taken away from his town and home. When he returned he tried to warn his fellow townspeople of the horrible things that were to come. he tried to tell them that the Gestapo's were going to do the same things to them as they did to him except they may not be able to escape like he did.
 * b.** Page #6: “Spring 1944. People said: 'The Russian army's making gigantic strides forward... Hitler won't be able to do us any harm, even if he wants to.'”
 * c.** Page #6: “The Budapest radio announced that the Fascist party had come into power. Horthy had been forced to ask one of the leaders of the Nyilas party to form a new government.
 * d.** Page #6 and 7: “The following day, there was more disturbing news: with government permission, German troops had entered Hungarian Territory.
 * e.** Page #7: “Before three days had passed, German army cars had appeared in our streets. Anguish. German soldiers-with their steel helmets, and their emblem, the death's head.


 * How do the Jewish of Sighet react?**


 * a.** Page #4 and 5: The townspeople said many different things. One was that Moshe the Beadle was trying to get them to pity him. Another was lying and saying things like “What an imagination he has!” Another is they thought he had gone mad.
 * b.** Page #6: “Yes, we even doubted that he wanted to exterminate us. Was he going to wipe out a whole people? could he exterminate a population scattered throughout so many countries? So many millions! What methods would he use? And in the middle of the twentieth century?
 * c.** Page #6: “Still this was not enough to worry us. Of course we had heard about the Fascist, but they were still just an abstraction to us.
 * d.** “Here and there, anxiety was aroused. One of our friends, Berkovitz, who had just returned from the capital, told us: 'The Jews in Budapest are living in an atmosphere of fear and terror. There are anti-Semitic incidents every day, in the streets, in the trains. The Fascists are attacking Jewish shops and synagogues. The situations getting very serious.'”
 * e.** Page #7: “Our first impressions of the Germans were most reassuring. The officers were billeted in private houses, even in the homes of Jews. Their attitude toward their hosts was distant, but polite.

__Pages 21-26__
 * Who is Madame Schachter?**


 * a.** Page #22: “She was a quiet woman with tense, burning eyes, she often been to our house. Her husband, who was a pious man, spent his days and nights in study, and it was she who worked to support the family.”


 * What happens to her?**


 * a.** Page #22: “She had gone out of her mind. On the first day of the journey she had already begun to moan and to keep asking why she had been separated fro her family. As time went on her cries became hysterical. On the third night, while we slept, a piercing cry split the silence: 'Fire! I can see fire! I can see fire!' There was nothing there; only darkness.” These hysterical screams happened 4 other times on their ride to Auschwitz.

__**Reaction:**__
 * 1. a.** It makes me sad to know that a women had a good family and then she lost that.
 * 2. a.** I think it is awful that she was so sad that she was going insane. Also it is awful that some of the people in the cart with her had to hit her and tie her up just to get her from screaming and right in front of her son as well.

__Pages 27-44__ that DESTROY faith?**
 * What are the specific acts, events and ideas
 * a.** Page #30: When a general said “Poor devils, you're going to the crematory.”
 * b.** Page #33: “Bela Katz-son of a big tradesman from our town- had arrived a Birkenau with the first transport, a week before us. When he heard of our arrival, he managed to get a word to us that, having been chosen for his strength, he himself put his father's body in to the crematory oven.”
 * c.** Page #33: One of his townspeople had approached him crying. “'Don't cry Yechiel,' I said. 'Not cry? we're on the threshold of death....Soon we shall have crossed over....Don't you understand?How could I not cry?' He said.”
 * d.** Page #34: Elie had an awful feeling. “It was no longer possible to grasp anything. The instincts of self-preservation, of self-defense, of pride, had all deserted us.”

that REKINDLE faith?**
 * What are the specific acts, events and ideas
 * a.** Page #29: “One of the young men cried: 'You must never loose faith, Even when the sword hangs over your head. That's the teachings of our sages.'”
 * b.** Page #38: A general said,”There's a long road of suffering ahead of you. But don't loose courage. Now, muster your strength, and don't loose heart. we shall all see the day of liberation. Have faith in life. Above all else, have faith. Drive out despair, and you will keep death away from yourselves.”

__**Reaction:**__
 * 1. a.** I think that this is not okay. If you are going to tell someone that they are going to die you don't say it like that.
 * 1.b.** I think that this is insane! I think that it is awful that this guy had to put his own father in the crematory.
 * 1.c.** I think that This guy has just lost all faith. That to me is very sad.
 * 1.d.** I think that this is really really sad.

__Pages #45-62 __ **1. What are the acts of kindness?**
 * a.** Page #48: When Elie was moved to another warehouse to work he asked if he could work next to his father and the officer said that he could.
 * b.** Page #51: After his brutal attack a girl said, “Bit your lip, little brother.... Don't cry. Keep your anger and hatred for another day, for later on. The day will come, but not now.... Wait. Grit your teeth and wait....”

'A-7713!' I came forward. 'A box!' He ordered. The brought him a box. 'Lie down on it! On your stomach!' I obeyed. Then I was aware of nothing but the strokes of the whip.”
 * 2. What are the acts of brutality?**
 * a.** Page #50: “One day when Idek was seized with one of his fits of frenzy, I got in his was. He leapt on me, like a wild animal, hitting me in the chest, on the head, throwing my down, and picking me up again, his blows growing more and more violent, until I was covered with blood. As I was bitting my lips to stop my self to stop from screaming with pain, he must have taken my silence for defiance, for he went on hitting me harder.
 * b.** Page #52: One time one of the German soldiers said to Elie's father,”You lazy old devil! You call that work!”
 * c.** Page #55: One time when Elie was in the wrong place at the wrong time this is what happen,”'An ordinary prisoner has no right to meddle into other people's affairs. One of you does not seem to have understood this. I am obliged, therefore, to make it very clear to him once and for all.'

__**Reactions:**__
 * 1.a.** I thought it was nice that the officer let him work next to his father. this is because usually the officers thought it was better for the prisoners to be away from their family members.
 * 1.b.** My reaction to this is that the girl was extremely kind. Elie could have screamed and fought back but the girl helped him in a way so he would just relax and save his anger for something more important that would come in the future.


 * 2.a.** I believe that this act was totally unnecessary because Elie was not bothering him at all. The Idek should not have attacked Elie.
 * 2.b.** To tell one of the prisoners that is working as hard as they can this is not cool. They are doing work for the officers and yelling and insulting them will not help. Yelling at Elie's father did no good in making him move faster or want to work harder.
 * 2.c.** I am appalled that the officer did this. The person that is in the wrong is the officer that Elie saw. The officer Should not have been doing what he was doing at that time and the officer should have got a private room to do this.

__**Pages #63-80**__ **1.** **What are the acts that show the German's are trying to be in control?**
 * a.** Page #66:“He told us that evening that no one would be allowed to go out after the evening soup. And soon a terrible word was circulating- selection. We knew what that meant. An SS man would examine us. When ever he found a weak one, he would write his number down: good for the crematory.
 * b.** Page #77: “At 4:00 on the afternoon of the same day, as usual the bell summoned all the heads of the blocks to go and report. They came back shattered. They could only just open their lips enough the say the word: evacuation.”

'You mustn't rejoice to soon, my boy. There is selection hear too. More often than outside. Germany doesn't need sick Jews. Germany doesn't need me. When the next transport comes, you will have a new neighbor. So listen to me, and take my advice: get out out of the hospital before the next selection!'”
 * 2. What are the acts that show the Jew's are trying to be in control?**
 * a.** Page #74: A lot of rumors went around from prisoners the camp to try and scare some of the other prisoners. This is showing that these prisoners were trying to control other people. “Near me lay a Hungarian Jew.
 * b.** Page #78: “He was lost in thought. The choice was in our hands. For once we could decided our fate for ourselves. We could both stay in the hospital. Or we could follow the others.”

__**Reaction:**__
 * 1.a.** I think that if I were in that situation I would be so nervous. I can't believe that the officers think that they are so powerful that they can say who gets live and who gets to die.
 * 1.b.** I don't believe that it is fair that the officers just move the prisoners from place to place like they are cargo.
 * 2.a.** I think that the people who were spreading the rumors were just afraid themselves and didn't want to be the only ones.
 * 2.b.** I think that having to make that decision was very hard. This is because if you stayed at one place or the other you didn't know what was going to happen to you and if you had chosen that other place if there would have been better.