Thursday, October 30, 2008

Night Quiz

1.Sighet
2.The Talmud
3.Hilda
4.Warn the villagers about the Nazis threat
5.To Auschwitz/Birkenau
6.The Sabbath, day of rest(Saturday)
7.A Furnace
8.Beat her senseless
9.His mother and three sisters
10.Eighteen and forty

Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Assignment 5

1.The development of the Nazi Party was growing little by little. (1918-1933)
2.Once Hitler took control the Nazi Party the party quickly changed. (1933-1939)
3.Hilter starts making ghettos and starts them. (1939-1941)
4.Soon after the ghettos Hilter also made concentration camps. (1941-1942)
5.After a couple of years of suffering the jews were finally rescued. (1944-1945)

Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Night:Chapter 2 Questions

1.This might mean that the passengers knew they weren't going to stay in Hungary,but they realized it was to late.
2.The nightmare was the furnace at the concentration camp and the fire.
3.The group of young men tied Madame Schacter and put something in her mouth.
4.They landed in Auschwitz.

Night:Chapter 1 Questions

1.Moshe the Beadle is a man of all work and a poor man who works in a church.
2.He didn't know why he cried he just cried because somewhere inside he felt like crying.
3.He return say what the Nazis did to children and two people.
4.People thought he was crazy and he just wanted attention.
5. 1.Nazis arrested all leaders.
2.People were only all outside before six not after six.
3.People weren't allowed to have and luxuries of monitary value.
4.They had to use or wear a yellow star in their cloth.
5.Soldiers were allowed to do what ever the wanted in the peoples house (Quartering Act).
6.People were put in a ghetto were only a certain type of people were put (Jewish).
7.A neighborhood were only a type of people were put(Jewish). ex. WWII Japanese in the use were put in a ghetto were they were patrolled.
8.Horrible conditions just like a jail with wheels. Bread and water as food and bars in and type of opening. A person was put in charge but if someone escaped he was shot.

Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Assignment 2

This story is about a person who is claustrophobic and is afraid of the dark. Adam Posner is a victim of the Holocaust and starts reliving the hell in the elevator. Adam thinks he is in a cattle car going to a concentration camp. Later in the story a night guard comes and tries to calm Adam, but Adam is scared and tired; he starts yelling "Nazi" to the guard. Next Adam's limo driver comes and tries to calm him down, but Adam tells him that it's easy for him because he is a Russian and they we not targeted to be eliminated. At the end the elevator repair men come and open the elevator where Adam is tired and scared.
The author really describes how some people get really affected by the Holocaust and how the react like Adam Posner.