Birkenau to Auschwitz to Buna

Concentration campThe term concentration camp refers to a camp in which people are detained or confined, usually under harsh conditions and without regard to legal norms of arrest and imprisonment that are acceptable in a constitutional democracy. In Nazi Germany between 1933 and 1945, concentration camps were an integral feature of the regime.

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. "The Holocaust." Holocaust Encyclopedia. http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/index.php?ModuleId=10005143.

BirkenauSortedHuge pit of bodies being burnedShaved, disinfected with gasoline, showered, put in prison uniformsHard work or crematoriumElies father is first beaten (How does Elie react? Why is this significant?)

What is an SS Officer?Schutzstaffel; Protection SquadronsPerceived themselves as the racial elite of Nazi future. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. "The Holocaust." Holocaust Encyclopedia. http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/index.php?ModuleId=10005143 (accessed September 8, 2006). http://www.holocaustresearchproject.org/nazioccupation/images/An%20SS%20officer%20stands%20in%20front%20of%20Jews%20assembled%20for%20deportation.%20Vienna,%20Austria,%201941.jpg

SS OfficersResponsible for security, identification of ethnicity, settlement and population policy, and intelligence collection and analysis.Controlled the German police forces and the concentration camp system.

Birkenauhttp://www.jewishmuseum.org.uk/domains/jewishmuseum.org.uk/local/media/images/medium/New%20Museum%20images/Birkenau%20web%20version.jpg

Between late April and early July 1944, approximately 440,000 Hungarian Jews were deported, around 426,000 of them to Auschwitz. The SS sent approximately 320,000 of them directly to the gas chambers in Auschwitz-Birkenau and deployed approximately 110,000 at forced labor in the Auschwitz concentration camp complex.United States Holocaust Memorial Museum http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?ModuleId=10005189

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Women chosen for forced labor at Auschwitz-Birkenau 1944http://www.ushmm.org/photos/77/77273.jpg

Soviet Prisoners of War at Birkenauhttp://farm4.static.flickr.com/3460/3365089161_f5d06eff63.jpg

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AuschwitzShort distance awayKilling still occurred hereAlso a staging ground for work kommadosThis is where Elie is tattooed with a number This is where Elie meets Stein

SS and police authorities deported approximately 200,000 other victims to Auschwitz, including 140,000-150,000 non-Jewish Poles, 23,000 Roma and Sinti (Gypsies), 15,000 Soviet prisoners of war, and 25,000 others (Soviet civilians, Lithuanians, Czechs, French, Yugoslavs, Germans, Austrians, and Italians).

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?ModuleId=10005189

BunaWork campFour hour walk from AuschwitzHoused in musicians blockJuliek, Yosi, TibiFranek

Auschwitz III, also called Buna was a forced labor camp. It was established in October 1942

Prisoners worked for German industries that exploited concentration camp labor.

Have you seen Schindlers List?

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KapoHead prisoner in charge of other inmates

Elies first Kapo, a young Polish man, showed compassion. What was his fate?

Who was Idek the Kapo?

KommandosThis is the German word for command.

Name for units of slave laborers in the camps.

SonderkommandoForced to help with the Final Solution

Guarded newly arrived inmates

Usually inducted upon arrival- could not resign- work or be killed.

They were prisoners, not SS officers

Task of disposing of corpses.

RebellionOn October 7, 1944, several hundred prisoners assigned to Crematorium IV at Auschwitz-Birkenau rebelled after learning that they were going to be killed. During the uprising, the prisoners killed three guards and blew up the crematorium and adjacent gas chamber.

The prisoners used explosives smuggled into the camp by Jewish women who had been assigned to forced labor in a nearby armaments factory. The Germans crushed the revolt and killed almost all of the prisoners involved in the rebellion. The Jewish women who had smuggled the explosives into the camp were publicly hanged in early January 1945.

HomeworkFinish reading and taking notes on Section Four of Night.

This will take you to page ____.

You will be able to use your notes on the reading check tomorrow and on the next in-class task.

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Homework Due WednesdayWatch at least three Holocaust testimonials on the Holocaust Memorial Museum website. The link for this site is on my wikispace. Write a journal that summarizes what you heard. What surprised you? What questions come to mind? How does this connect to what you have read in Night?

FaithWhy does he decide not to throw himself into the pit?Why does he lie to Stein?

(Tuesday) Todays TaskUsing passages from the text, create a timeline of Elies faith. Write the page number for each passage. Include:

Elie before the ghettosElie during the ghettosElie upon arrival at the campElie at the camp The faith of others at the camp (at least two quotes that show faith or faltering faith)Elie after the hangings

ExampleAt the beginning of the story, Elie is a very faithful and devout young man. He really wants to study the complex mystical teachings of Judaism but his father wont let him. ( ).

HomeworkTake the research question you have been assigned and find an answer using Internet resources. You must find your answer on a credible site. Review the criteria for what is credible.Write your citation information at the top of your page using MLA format.Write a 250 words about what you learned from your site .If you take anything word for word, you must put those words into quotation marks.