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Elie Wiesel’s Night and the Holocaust

Elie Wiesel’s Night and the Holocaust. Common Holocaust Era Terms:. Gestapo: Nazi Secret Police, starting by Hermann Göring , later led by Heinrich Himmler

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Elie Wiesel’s Night and the Holocaust

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  1. Elie Wiesel’s Night and the Holocaust

  2. Common Holocaust Era Terms: Gestapo: Nazi Secret Police, starting by Hermann Göring, later led by Heinrich Himmler SS: Schutzstaffel, under command of Heinrich Himmler, special guard—more often than not guards at concentration camps were made up of SS officers Luftwaffe: German Air Force Kapos: A prisoner at a concentration camp given special priveleges in return for supervising fellow prisoners

  3. Hitler’s Ascension to Power 1914: Hitler enlists in German Army to fight in WWI 1919: Hitler joins Nazi Party 1923: The Beer Hall Putsch 1924: Imprisonment and MeinKampf 1933: Appointed Chancellor

  4. The Beginning of the Holocaust 1933: Dachau, Buchenwald, and other concentration camps open 1933: Laws stripping Jews of rights and citizenship begin to be passed 1933: Law signed that sends the beggars, homeless people, alcoholics and the unemployed to concentration camps 1936: Olympics held at Munich, Hitler temporarily halts persecution of Jews to build up Germany’s reputation

  5. Hitler Builds up his Empire 1935: Hitler announces he has reassembled the military 1935: Hitler occupies the Rhineland 1935: Hitler becomes allies with Fascist Francisco Franco 1938: Signed Munich Pact and acquired the Sudetenland 1938: Hitler annexes Austria 1938: Hitler invades the rest of Czechoslovakia

  6. WWII and the Holocaust 1938: Kristallnacht 1939: Hitler attacks Poland, Great Britain and France declare war 1939: Hitler begins killing off the sick and disabled population 1940: Construction begins on Auschwitz, Commandant Rudolf Höss 1940: Nazis invade Romania (Wiesel’s homeland) 1940: Multiple pogroms against Jews leave thousands dead

  7. WWII and the Holocaust Continued 1941: First use of the gas chambers at Auschwitz 1942: Mass killings at Auschwitz-Birkenau begin 1942: Himmler grants request for sterilization experiments at Auschwitz 1942: Mass deportations to Auschwitz begin 1942: Officials decide to start burning instead of burying bodies at Auschwitz

  8. WWII and the Holocaust continued… 1942: Germans begin cashing in on valuables stolen from Jews on entry to Auschwitz 1943: Romania asks Britain and U.S. to help transport 70,000 Jews to Palestine—neither country respond 1943: 3 more gas chambers/crematories opened at Auschwitz 1943: Mengele arrives at Auschwitz 1943: American Jews rally in New York to pressure government into help European Jews

  9. WWII and the Holocaust 1944: 3 inmates from Auschwitz escape and warn others of the goings-on of the camp 1944: half the Jews from Hungary transported to Auschwitz, 100,000 of them killed when they arrived 1944: last uses of gas chambers at Auschwitz, Himmler then orders them to be destroyed 1944: first concentration camps liberated by the Russians 1945: Nazis conduct death marches to move Jewish inmates to areas farther removed from combat 1945: Auschwitz, Buchenwald and other concentration camps liberated

  10. Dr. Josef Mengele German doctor who practiced genetic experiments on men, women, and children at Auschwitz His experiments oftentimes had no scientific merit Mengele had a special interest in experimenting on twins His experiments were intended to benefit Nazi soldiers Known commonly as “The Angel of Death” Also supervised selections of incoming prisoners into the concentration camps

  11. Born September 30, 1928 in Sighet, Romania • Languages spoken in childhood home were Yiddish, Romanian, Hungarian, and German • Two older sisters, Hilda and Beatrice and one younger sister, Tzipora • Fifteen when he was first taken to the concentration camps in 1944 Elie Wiesel

  12. Elie Wiesel Night is a shortened version of this memoir • Wiesel learned French and wrote for French and Israeli newspapers • Would not write or talk about Holocaust experiences until he wrote his first memoir, And the World Remained Silent in 1952, which was 900 pages long.

  13. Wiesel is an honorary knight in the U.K. because of his Holocaust education efforts there • Wiesel is still actively working as a humanitarian around the world Elie Wiesel He became a U.S. citizen in 1955 Has been presented with the Congressional Gold Medal and the Presidential Medal of Freedom Wiesel won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986 for his work against racism, repression, and violence

  14. A Quote to Think About as You Read

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