Assignment 5

In this timeline you read on how they killed most jews and how many jews and non- jews each concetration camp killed.


1941- they began using gassing vans to kill people easier.

1942- The Jewish genocide went into full operation. There was no selection process; Jews were destroyed upon arrival.

This photo shows a wagon that carried many dead jews.

Assignment 4 ♥Chapter 2 ♥ Chapter 3

Questions

1. Explain, "our eyes were opened, but too late." Where was the train at this point?
2. What was foreshadowed by Madame Schacter's nightmare?
3. What did some of the passengers do to quiet Madame Schacter?
4. Where did the train finally stop?


Answers

1. It means that they realized what was going to happen to them just a little to late. The train was already at another town, a different border, they had no where to go. They could not escape.

2. Madame Schater kept saying that she saw a fire during the night.

3. They struck her until she finally fell quiet.

4. The train finally stopped in Birkenau.


Questions

1. When questioned by the S.S. Officer, why did Elie lie about his age and occupation?
2. What was the first horrifying sight that Elie at first disbelieved?
3. Explain what Elie meant when he said, "Never shall I forget these flames which consumed my faith forever."
4. How did Elie change in a short time?
5. What was Elie's first impression of Auschwitz after leaving Birkenau?
6. What was the "compulsory formality" at the entrance to all camps?
7. What sort of identification was used on the prisoners?
8. Why was the prisoner in charge of Elie's block removed from his position?
9. What were the prisoners' rations at each meal?
10.What was Bela Katz forced to do once he was chosen for his strength?


Answers

1. He lied because one of the inmates told him that it would be better for him.
2. He saw babies being thrown into the pit to be burned.
3. He meant that no matter how much he tries he will never forget these horrible memories that made him lose faith in the a Lord by him thinking that the Lord planned this for them.
4. He changed because when he saw that his father got hit he did not defend him.
5. He feels a bit happier because he hears that is is better than Birkenau.
6. They would shower them with hot water and gasoline.
7. They would tattoo them with numbers and letters. After that they no longer had a name.
8. He was being to friendly to the prisoners.
9. They would only get one meal a day which was soup and stale bread.
10. Throw his own father into the crematorium.

Assignment 3 ♥ Night- Questions

Questions

1. Who is Moishe the Beadle?
2. Why did Eliezer cry when he prayed?
3. When Moishe/Moche returned what did he tell?
4. Why didn't people believe him?
5. List the ways the Jewish people of Sighet lost their rights (List 5).
6. What is a Ghetto?
7. Why did citizens resist the truth , even when it was in front of them?
8. Describe the conditions in the train (at the end of the chapter).


Answers

1. He is a very poor man, but people are very fond of him. A highpercentage of the time he seemed invisable. He was very weird but in a good kind of a way.

2. Elie really didn't know why he would cry he just felt that he had to.

3. Moishe said that the train with the deportees had crossed the hungarian borderand, once in Polish territory, had been taken over by the Gestapo. The train had stooped. the jews were ordered to get off and onto waiting trucks. the trucks headed toward a forest. there everyone was ordered to get out. they were forced to dig huge trenches. when they finished their work, the men from the Gestapo began theirs. without passion or haste, they shot their prisoners, who were forced to approach the trench one by one and offer their necks. infants were tossed into the air and were used as targets for their machine guns.

4.No one belied him because they all thought that he just wanted them to feel sorry for him.

5. ♥Most homes were taken over by German soldiers and they had to do what they said. ♥ They couldn't keep any objests of precious value. ♥ All Jews had to wear the yellow star♥ All privelages were taken away and they were not allowed to be out after 6:00 pm ♥ They were put in ghettos

6. A ghetto is a section of a specific ethnic group

7. They did not believe Hitler could kill them all.

8. There were 80 people per cart. little food and water, cars were sealed, anyone who tried to escape was killed and there were also bars on the window.

Assignment 2 ♥ Catle Car Complex

☻This story was about a jewish man named Adam Posner. One night he got off work late which he always tried to avoid due to claustrophobia. That night he stepped into the elevator and got trapped inside. He was okay for awile until memories started to haunt him. These memories were from the Holocaust and how he and his parents were treated. Even though he was just a child he remembers very clearly how they were trapped in a cattle car. Being in the elevator seemed as if he were back in one of those cars. He started shouting saying how could they hold poor kids and all jewish adults in thsi small car. He continued to yell these things until the elevator repair man opened the it and he was helped to calm down.


☻In this story the author writes about how much trauma jewish people now live with due the the horrific time period of the holocaust. None of the jews will ever forget this.