https://padlet.com/slarsen9/ji0f9gs8aww Exploring the background of Night en-us 2016-09-15 13:41:37 UTC 2025-11-09 23:53:29 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/slarsen9/ji0f9gs8aww/wish/125143025 40,000,000–50,000,000 deaths incurred in World War II.]]> 2016-09-20 16:13:01 UTC https://padlet.com/slarsen9/ji0f9gs8aww/wish/125143025 kgkennedy2 https://padlet.com/slarsen9/ji0f9gs8aww/wish/125143709 World War ll was the bloodiest conflict and the largest war in hinstory]]> 2016-09-20 16:14:34 UTC https://padlet.com/slarsen9/ji0f9gs8aww/wish/125143709 https://padlet.com/slarsen9/ji0f9gs8aww/wish/125143732 By the early part of 1939 the German dictator Adolf Hitler had become determined to invade and occupy Poland.]]> 2016-09-20 16:14:37 UTC https://padlet.com/slarsen9/ji0f9gs8aww/wish/125143732 https://padlet.com/slarsen9/ji0f9gs8aww/wish/125143807 In 1945, he was taken to Paris where he studied at the Sorbonne and worked as a journalist.]]> 2016-09-20 16:14:49 UTC https://padlet.com/slarsen9/ji0f9gs8aww/wish/125143807 https://padlet.com/slarsen9/ji0f9gs8aww/wish/125143999 2016-09-20 16:15:13 UTC https://padlet.com/slarsen9/ji0f9gs8aww/wish/125143999 https://padlet.com/slarsen9/ji0f9gs8aww/wish/125144017 It resulted in the extension of the Soviet Union’s power to nations of eastern Europe, enabled a communist movement to eventually achieve power in China, and marked the decisive shift of power in the world away from the states of western Europe and toward the United States and the Soviet Union.]]> 2016-09-20 16:15:17 UTC https://padlet.com/slarsen9/ji0f9gs8aww/wish/125144017 mjshea https://padlet.com/slarsen9/ji0f9gs8aww/wish/125144155 Elie Wiesel was born in Sighet, Transylvania by an Orthodox family]]> 2016-09-20 16:15:36 UTC https://padlet.com/slarsen9/ji0f9gs8aww/wish/125144155 https://padlet.com/slarsen9/ji0f9gs8aww/wish/125144418 World War 2 ended in 1945

]]> 2016-09-20 16:16:04 UTC https://padlet.com/slarsen9/ji0f9gs8aww/wish/125144418 dcseszneki https://padlet.com/slarsen9/ji0f9gs8aww/wish/125144536 Density of concentration camps in certain areas (number of camps)]]> 2016-09-20 16:16:18 UTC https://padlet.com/slarsen9/ji0f9gs8aww/wish/125144536 https://padlet.com/slarsen9/ji0f9gs8aww/wish/125144629 2016-09-20 16:16:31 UTC https://padlet.com/slarsen9/ji0f9gs8aww/wish/125144629 iflewis https://padlet.com/slarsen9/ji0f9gs8aww/wish/125144909 Europe, Pacific, Atlantic, South-East Asia, China, Middle East, Mediterranean and Northern Africa.]]> 2016-09-20 16:17:05 UTC https://padlet.com/slarsen9/ji0f9gs8aww/wish/125144909 https://padlet.com/slarsen9/ji0f9gs8aww/wish/125145121 In 1958, he published his first book, La Nuit, in memory of his experiences in the concentration camps. ]]> 2016-09-20 16:17:34 UTC https://padlet.com/slarsen9/ji0f9gs8aww/wish/125145121 https://padlet.com/slarsen9/ji0f9gs8aww/wish/125145195 Elie Wiesel was on the New York Times bestseller list for 80 consecutive weeks.]]> 2016-09-20 16:17:46 UTC https://padlet.com/slarsen9/ji0f9gs8aww/wish/125145195 https://padlet.com/slarsen9/ji0f9gs8aww/wish/125145576 Moved to New York where he lived out his days and became a US citizen.]]> 2016-09-20 16:18:38 UTC https://padlet.com/slarsen9/ji0f9gs8aww/wish/125145576 https://padlet.com/slarsen9/ji0f9gs8aww/wish/125145583 Wiesel originally tried fifteen separate publishers in the late 1950s before he found one who would publish "Night".]]> 2016-09-20 16:18:39 UTC https://padlet.com/slarsen9/ji0f9gs8aww/wish/125145583 https://padlet.com/slarsen9/ji0f9gs8aww/wish/125145752 The war lasted for six years, until the final Allied defeat of both Nazi Germany and Japan in 1945.]]> 2016-09-20 16:19:00 UTC https://padlet.com/slarsen9/ji0f9gs8aww/wish/125145752 https://padlet.com/slarsen9/ji0f9gs8aww/wish/125146108 2016-09-20 16:19:45 UTC https://padlet.com/slarsen9/ji0f9gs8aww/wish/125146108 slarsen9 https://padlet.com/slarsen9/ji0f9gs8aww/wish/125146150 The "Manhattan Project" was the scientific testing of the First atomic bomb used on Japan.]]> 2016-09-20 16:19:50 UTC https://padlet.com/slarsen9/ji0f9gs8aww/wish/125146150 https://padlet.com/slarsen9/ji0f9gs8aww/wish/125146202 January 27th is International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Nearly 1.1 million people died between the Auschwitz I and Auschwitz II- Birkenau extermination camps. Only around 200,000 camp inmates survived.]]> 2016-09-20 16:19:58 UTC https://padlet.com/slarsen9/ji0f9gs8aww/wish/125146202 https://padlet.com/slarsen9/ji0f9gs8aww/wish/125147078 Tom Lantos, a 14- term member of the U.S House of the Representatives, was the first and only holocaust member to serve in congress.

]]> 2016-09-20 16:21:48 UTC https://padlet.com/slarsen9/ji0f9gs8aww/wish/125147078 dcseszneki https://padlet.com/slarsen9/ji0f9gs8aww/wish/125147268 The Nazis were very good record keepers but they managed to destroy a lot of evidence before it could be discovered.]]> 2016-09-20 16:22:15 UTC https://padlet.com/slarsen9/ji0f9gs8aww/wish/125147268 bphayes https://padlet.com/slarsen9/ji0f9gs8aww/wish/125147377 2016-09-20 16:22:45 UTC https://padlet.com/slarsen9/ji0f9gs8aww/wish/125147377 https://padlet.com/slarsen9/ji0f9gs8aww/wish/125147506 2016-09-20 16:22:58 UTC https://padlet.com/slarsen9/ji0f9gs8aww/wish/125147506 https://padlet.com/slarsen9/ji0f9gs8aww/wish/125147532 While in a French orphanage, Wiesel's picture was taken by a journalist who came to visit. One of his sisters saw the picture in the paper and they were reunited. Later he was reunited with his other sister. 

]]> 2016-09-20 16:22:59 UTC https://padlet.com/slarsen9/ji0f9gs8aww/wish/125147532 https://padlet.com/slarsen9/ji0f9gs8aww/wish/125147555 2016-09-20 16:23:01 UTC https://padlet.com/slarsen9/ji0f9gs8aww/wish/125147555 https://padlet.com/slarsen9/ji0f9gs8aww/wish/125147569 2016-09-20 16:23:01 UTC https://padlet.com/slarsen9/ji0f9gs8aww/wish/125147569 https://padlet.com/slarsen9/ji0f9gs8aww/wish/125147660 !]]> 2016-09-20 16:23:09 UTC https://padlet.com/slarsen9/ji0f9gs8aww/wish/125147660 https://padlet.com/slarsen9/ji0f9gs8aww/wish/125147708 2016-09-20 16:23:21 UTC https://padlet.com/slarsen9/ji0f9gs8aww/wish/125147708 https://padlet.com/slarsen9/ji0f9gs8aww/wish/125147738 2016-09-20 16:23:24 UTC https://padlet.com/slarsen9/ji0f9gs8aww/wish/125147738 bphayes https://padlet.com/slarsen9/ji0f9gs8aww/wish/125147789 German scientists and researchers would conduct experiments on unlucky prisoners in the camps.]]> 2016-09-20 16:23:26 UTC https://padlet.com/slarsen9/ji0f9gs8aww/wish/125147789 https://padlet.com/slarsen9/ji0f9gs8aww/wish/125147859 2016-09-20 16:23:35 UTC https://padlet.com/slarsen9/ji0f9gs8aww/wish/125147859 https://padlet.com/slarsen9/ji0f9gs8aww/wish/125147969 opened in 1940 and was the largest of the Nazi concentration and death camps]]> 2016-09-20 16:23:48 UTC https://padlet.com/slarsen9/ji0f9gs8aww/wish/125147969 https://padlet.com/slarsen9/ji0f9gs8aww/wish/125148050 2016-09-20 16:23:57 UTC https://padlet.com/slarsen9/ji0f9gs8aww/wish/125148050 https://padlet.com/slarsen9/ji0f9gs8aww/wish/125148058 1.1 million Jews, Homosexuals, and
 handicap died from starvation or died in the gas chambers at Auschwitz concentration camp.]]> 2016-09-20 16:23:58 UTC https://padlet.com/slarsen9/ji0f9gs8aww/wish/125148058 https://padlet.com/slarsen9/ji0f9gs8aww/wish/125148170 2016-09-20 16:24:11 UTC https://padlet.com/slarsen9/ji0f9gs8aww/wish/125148170 thernandez3 https://padlet.com/slarsen9/ji0f9gs8aww/wish/125148404 2016-09-20 16:24:51 UTC https://padlet.com/slarsen9/ji0f9gs8aww/wish/125148404 olneale https://padlet.com/slarsen9/ji0f9gs8aww/wish/125148757 Auschwitz survivor Gena Turgel said that crying in Auschwitz could have you shot.]]> 2016-09-20 16:25:49 UTC https://padlet.com/slarsen9/ji0f9gs8aww/wish/125148757 slarsen9 https://padlet.com/slarsen9/ji0f9gs8aww/wish/125148862 More than 30 laboratories and sites and more than 130,000 people were eventually involved in different facets of nuclear research and development.]]> 2016-09-20 16:26:04 UTC https://padlet.com/slarsen9/ji0f9gs8aww/wish/125148862 olneale https://padlet.com/slarsen9/ji0f9gs8aww/wish/125149668 Auschwitz, also known as Auschwitz-Birkenau, opened in 1940 and was the largest nazi concentration camp]]> 2016-09-20 16:28:20 UTC https://padlet.com/slarsen9/ji0f9gs8aww/wish/125149668 kssimkins https://padlet.com/slarsen9/ji0f9gs8aww/wish/125150168 Raised in an Orthodox family in Sighet, Transylvania, Wiesel was liberated from Buchenwald at age f 16.]]> 2016-09-20 16:30:01 UTC https://padlet.com/slarsen9/ji0f9gs8aww/wish/125150168 https://padlet.com/slarsen9/ji0f9gs8aww/wish/125150356 2016-09-20 16:30:37 UTC https://padlet.com/slarsen9/ji0f9gs8aww/wish/125150356 olneale https://padlet.com/slarsen9/ji0f9gs8aww/wish/125150401 During WW II, more than 1 million people lost their lives in Auschwitz ]]> 2016-09-20 16:30:48 UTC https://padlet.com/slarsen9/ji0f9gs8aww/wish/125150401 https://padlet.com/slarsen9/ji0f9gs8aww/wish/125150563 Tom Lantos, a 14-term member of the U.S House of Representatives, was the first and only holocaust member to serve in congress.]]> 2016-09-20 16:31:19 UTC https://padlet.com/slarsen9/ji0f9gs8aww/wish/125150563 lgclose https://padlet.com/slarsen9/ji0f9gs8aww/wish/125150570 Turgel has survived three concentration camps, one of them being Auschwitz. She says she wears a lot of perfume because the smell of the camps will never leave her, and she tries to block it out.]]> 2016-09-20 16:31:20 UTC https://padlet.com/slarsen9/ji0f9gs8aww/wish/125150570