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Introduction to Night In your composition book NOTES

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Class Chat on Prior Knowledge: Literature & History What prior knowledge do you have? Which texts have you read? Which movies have you seen? What have you already studied?

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How does this pertain to English? Survivors, as primary sources, are eye- witnesses of this period in time. As they pass on, their written works become their voice. Consider the motive behind the diaries and letters that were carefully hidden. The victims wanted their stories to be known. In History you learn the facts; in English the stories. Through reading, you experience the world. This milk can, filled to the brim with diaries and letters, was carefully buried so that the truth could eventually be heard.

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Basic Overview: The Holocaust The Holocaust refers to a specific genocidal event in twentieth-century history: the state-sponsored, systematic persecution and annihilation of European Jewry by Nazi Germany and its collaborators between 1933 and 1945. Be careful with terms like The Germans; they did not act alone. The time period known as The Holocaust is offensive to some people because he word holocaust refers to a sacrifice by fire- sometimes offensive to people because it implies the Jews were sacrificed for the greater good. What do you think?

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Basic Overview: continued Jews were the primary victims 6 million were murdered; Gypsies, the handicapped, and Poles were also targeted for destruction or decimation for racial, ethnic, or national reasons. Millions more, including homosexuals, Jehovahs Witnesses, Soviet prisoners of war, and political dissidents, also suffered grievous oppression and death under Nazi tyranny. Photo montage of victims USHMM Washington D.C.

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Jews were living in every country in Europe before the Nazis came into power in 1933 Approximately 9 million Jews Poland and the Soviet Union had the largest populations Jews could be found in all walks of life: farmers, factory workers, business people, doctors, teachers, and craftsmen Group portrait of members of the Jewish community of Sighet in front of a wooden synagogue. 1930-1939. Before the War

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Basically means the hate of Jews. Jews have faced prejudice and discrimination for over 2,000 years. Jews were scapegoats for many problems. For example, people blamed Jews for the Black Death that killed thousands in Europe during the Middle Ages. Anti-Semitism Hits Nazi teachers began to apply the principles of racial science by measuring skull size and nose length and recording students eye color and hair to determine whether students belonged the the Aryan race.

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Which students do you think are Jewish? (all of them)

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