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3. In ch 8 Elie's father began to feel weak and he couldn't go on much longer  and he wanted Elie to go on because he had a better chance of survival and was much stronger than him. Elie's father wanted Elie to suceed in being freed. This relates to Life is Beautiful because Joshua's father wanted the best for him and cared too much for him to die.

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-Elie's story begins in a ghetto in Sighet, Transylvania during 1942
-2 years later Elie and his family are moved into a smaller ghetto waiting to be put on a train to be deported
-once on the train they are transported to a town in the Czechoslovak frontier
-The train then heads into Auschwitz concentration camp in Oświęcim, Poland  for selection
-Once Elie and his father survive selection they are sent to block 17 inside the camp where they stayed for 3 weeks
-Elie along with his father are then transferred to Buna concentration camp in Weimar, Germany
-The Germans force them to leave to a small town 42 miles outside of Buna to escape the liberation army, they then return to Buna by train
- They remain at Buna for 11 days and leave once the camp was liberated

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2. in ch 7 the Jews were put into a train were there were toppled on top of each other and breathing was extremely hard because they had no space and there was little to oxygen because there were so many people in that one train. This reminds me of when slaves were transported from one place to the other, they were stuffed into a ship and had no space. They were side by side with people they knew and didn't know. People would die of disease because they were in the ship fro many days with no food or water and they would get cut and their cuts would get infected.

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Ch 6-9
1. In ch 6 the Jews are basically running/traveling for days and the conditions were unbearable. Their thought were basically like just keep going it will be over before we know it. Pain is just a weakness of the body and we can get through to the end. I kind of relate this to sports and training. When we are put to run in lacrosse or soccer and we have to run ALOT i think of that. It will be over before I know it and I just don't have to think about it.

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Discussion Director- Kyle (Chapters 6-9)

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Discussion Director- Kyle (Chapters 6-9)

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1. On page 83, Elie says that they (the prisoners) were masters of nature and of the world. What do you think was the most significant event in his journey that caused this mindset?
2. What would you rate Elie's moral development on Kohlberg's scale https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Kohlberg's_stages_of_moral_development at the end of the book? how does this compare to the beginning?
3.Why do you think that the Germans allowed those that were chronically ill such as Elie's father to live in the hospital until their death rather than eliminating them as their were diagnosed?
4. What is the significance of the last two lines of the book?
5. Considering that most people have a basic understanding of what the holocaust was, why do you think this story was still included in the English curriculum instead of an alternative in a history class?
6. If you were on the train full of dead people, would you have at least checked for a pulse on the "dead" or taken the opportunity to free up some space for yourself?

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http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/buna-subcamp

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Ch 4-5
1. In these chapters Elie is being confronted with more challnges in the camp because he was beaten for "not doing what was expected" and the officials got mad at him. This relates to slave times because slaves were punished severely if they got on their master's bad side

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elie and his father get put into the electric kommandos unit . it's not hard work at all. . elie has a gold tooth that gets removed for nothing at all when it could have got him extra rations etc. he worked next to a german jewish girl who passed off as aryan . she spoke nice words to him when idek beat him in a frenzy.

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1. Why do you think Franek was so desperate to get Elie's gold crown if he knew that no prisoner was allowed to have gold?
2. Why do you think that the SS made the prisoners pay their respects when people were executed even though they were trying to make an example of these people that they believed deserved no respect?
3. If it was such a crime that the Lagerkapo refused to be the executioner of the boy (page 61), do you think this caused a questioning of morals among all of the German officials?
4.  "'I've got more faith in Hitler than anyone else. He's the only one who's kept his promises to the Jewish people.'" Who is he suggesting has broken promises with the Jewish people?
5. Based on the mainly negative experiences that we've read about so far, why do you think this book was included as part of the curriculum?

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Is Weisel's description of his experience in the Holocaust exaggerated or realistic? 

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Is Weisel's description of his experience in the Holocaust exaggerated or realistic? 

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https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005189

http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/auschwitz

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/history-and-overview-of-auschwitz-birkenau
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The camps were located approximately 37 miles west of Krakow. They were near the prewar German-Polish border in Upper Silesia, an area that Nazi Germany annexed in 1939 after invading and conquering Poland.

Credit to United States Holocaust Museum

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Ch 1-3
1. Hitler brainwashed the people of Germany to believe that the Jews were the cause of the Great Depression and they were to blame for the corruption that was happening in Germany during this time. Just like today, in North Korea  Kim Jong-un is brainwashing his people to believe what he does.

2. The Jewish community are being treated unfairly because of their culture and ethnicity. Just like during the segregation times in the United states where African Americans were being treated unfairly.

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Elie is introduced as a 15 year old Jewish boy from Sighet, Hungary. His whole community is being taken to a concentration camp and when he arrives there he is separated from his mom and sister. He witnesses firsthand the horrors which are only going to get worse for him.

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http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/the-holocaust

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1. Why do you think the German officers informed only the Jewish president of their planned deportation rather than addressing the community as a whole?
2. How would you have reacted if you were in line to enter Auschwitz?
3. Why do you think some of the kapos seemed to take pity on the prisoners and not treat them nearly as poorly as they could have?

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http://www.biography.com/people/elie-wiesel-9530714