NIGHT WEBQUEST

“For in the end, it is all about memory, its sources and its magnitude, and, of course, its consequences.”
~Elie Wiesel, Night
Over the next few weeks you will be reading the memoir Night by Elie Wiesel.
The novel Night is the heartbreaking and shocking memoir of Elie Wiesel's experiences as a Jewish teenager in Europe during World War II. His goal in writing this memoir was to "bear witness" and share his experiences to ensure that a genocide like the holocaust never happened again.

Your Task: Our community is contemplating building its own museum dedicated to remembering victims of genocide all over the world. Our class has been put in charge of accumulating information regarding the history of the Holocaust and how it has affected our world today. Use the topics and links below to explore various aspects of Holocaust history. Document your findings  and be prepared to discuss your findings with the class.


By the end of this web quest you should be able to...

• Define terms commonly used during when referencing the Holocaust.
  
• Locate major places found in the book Night
• Understand the importance in learning about the Holocaust
• Know basic information about the author Elie Wiesel
  

The Holocaust
These links provide a general overview of the Holocaust and may be used to answer many of the questions found on your worksheet.
This video is a reflection piece made by a student in Michigan.

• Define the Holocaust

• Why We Remember the Holocaust

• Personal Histories of The Holocaust (this link also contains information for the topics below)

• Animated Map: Introduction to the Holocaust

• Overview of the Holocaust

• Timeline of the Holocaust

Hitler and Nazi Rule
Questions:

• How and when did Hitler gain power and what was the Third Reich?
• Who were the SS? What did they do?
  
• What was “Nazi Propaganda” and how was it used?
• What is Euthanasia? Who qualified under the Nuremberg laws?
  
• What is “Antisemitism?”
• What was the Nazi "Final Solution"?
  

Sites to Search

• Nazi Rule
• Nazi Euthanasia (T-4) program
• Third Reich: an overview
• Antisemitism
• Perpetrators: The SS
  
• Nazi Propaganda
• The Final Solution

Ghettos
Questions

• Where did the term Ghetto come from?
  
• How was a ghetto formed?
• What kind of things did they have in a ghetto?
• Who was in charge of a ghetto? How did they run it?
• How did the Nazi’s keep the Jews in the Ghetto?
• What happened after Jews left the ghettos?

Sites to Search

• Ghettos
• Shoah Resource Center Ghettos
• The Ghettos
  
• Life in the Ghettos
  

The Lwów Ghetto, Spring 1942. Jewish women behind the barbwire fenceConcentration Camps
Auschwitz on Liberation DayQuestions

• What are some of the things that happened to the prisoners when they first got to the camps?
• What was “Selection?”
• What was the difference between death camps and labor camps?
• What happened to the personal items people brought with them?
• What were a crematorium and a gas chamber?
• What was Auschwitz?
  

Sites to Search

• At the Killing Centers
• Forced Labor
• Labor and Death Camps
• Killing Centers: an overview
  
• Auschwitz-The Death Factory
• The Nazi Camp System
• Treblinka
• Auschwitz Animated Map
• Death Marches
• Liberation of Auschwitz
• Selection
  

Elie Wiesel
Questions

• When and Where was Elie Born?
• How far is his hometown from Fulton, MD? Answer: Approx. 5750 Miles
  
• What kind of education did Wiesel have before the war?
  
• Which concentration camps did Elie Wiesel go to?
• What is the name of his first book?
• What awards has he won?
  

Sites to Search

• The Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity
• Holocaust Survivors' Storyteller
• Nobel Prize Biography
• New World Encyclopedia
  
• USHMM Biography
• Life in Sighet
• Google Maps Holocaust Background Information
  

Play  Web Quests Consulted:
https://sites.google.com/site/nightwebquest8/
http://webquestnight.blogspot.com/2011/02/webquest-for-night.html
http://zunal.com/webquest.php?w=166419