Week 4: Holocaust and Night Flashcards
What does genocide mean?
The destruction of a nation or an ethnic group
What does motive mean?
Coordinated plan of TOTAL extermination of a given nation or ethnic group
What is the Holocaust?
Entire annihilation of the Jewish people
What does antisemitism mean?
Hostility to or prejudice against the jewish people
What are example of genocide?
- Killing members of the group
- Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group
- Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction
- Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group
- Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group
What is a modern day example of genocide?
- Armenia: first genocide in 20th century, massacre of Armenian christian people by Ottoman Empire
- Bosnia: 100,000 people killed during the conflict
- Rwanda: 1 million tutsi and moderate Hutus were slaughtered by a Hutu extremist group
- Syria: 500,000+ Syrians have been killed and another 6 mil have been displaced inside the country. Another 5.5 mil have fled due to President Basher Assad’s regime
- Uyghurs in China: 1-3 million Uyghur’s have been imprisoned in internment camps; tortured, forced labor, mandatory teaching to renounce their culture and Muslim faith
What’s the difference between internment and interment?
Internment: imprisonment
Interment: burial
What do we call Holocaust deniers?
Revisionists
Who were the target groups for the holocaust?
- European jews (9 million in 1933, by 1945 6 million were murdered)
- 200,000 mentally or physically disabled died as part of a euthanasia program
- 3 million soviet prisoners died due to starvation and disease
- Homosexuals were singled out
(Night) Why did he start with Moishe the Beadle? Why don’t people believe him when he returns?
Moishe told the story of how he watched the German soldiers kill Jews and use babies as shooting targets. Why didn’t the people believe Moishe’s story? They didn’t believe Moishe’s story because Moishe the Beadle was already odd in their eyes and they felt that he was just trying to receive pity.
(Night) Who was A-7713?
Elie Wiesel
(Night) How many people fit into the cattle cars at the beginning of the book? By the end of the book?
By the beginning it was 150-200 people, and by the end it was 80
(Night) Who was Juliek?
Juliek is a young man from Warsaw who played the violin in the Buna band, which is where Eliezer met him for the first time. Later he is transported with Eliezer to Buchenwald but he dies en route in the barracks at Gleiwitz. The night he dies, he plays his violin.
(Night) Who was the French woman?
The young French girl is a French Jew that passed as an Aryan. She helped Elie when the SS officer beat him by giving him bread.
(Night) What does he mean when he says: “…to forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.”
The meaning he is trying to convey when he says this, is that if someone has forgotten such a tragedy, it would have been the same as killing them a second time.
