Tag: Year 10 Humanities

Reflection on the Holocaust memoir Night by Elie Wiesel

We read Elie Wiesel’s memoir/autobiography Night, about his experiences as a boy during the Holocaust.

 

  1. As a 12-year-old boy before the war, what sort of person was Elie and what was his life like? grew up in the close-knit Jewish community of Sighet.

 

  1. How had Elie changed from the 12-year-old boy in Sighet to the 16-year-old liberated from the concentration camp at the end of the war? He look at his reflection in the mirror and all he can see is a corpse.

 

  1. As you read and/or listened to Elie’s account of what he experienced during the Holocaust, how did it make you feel? I feel lucky I didn’t experience the horrible war.

 

  1. What part(s) of Elie’s story did you find most upsetting or hardest to cope with? Why do you think that was? When the war starts, his father died, and other jews that died.

 

  1. Did any part of Elie’s story give you hope or make you feel a bit better? Why? I felt better cause he shared his story about what happened during the holocaust.

 

  1. Has Elie’s story changed or made clearer your views about human beings, human rights, and how we relate to each other in society? How? Yes about prejudice.

 

 

  1. What is the most important message or idea you have taken from reading Night? Identity, faith, and the struggle to understand human suffering amidst the atrocities of concentration camps

 

Reflection on the film Schindler’s List

We are learning about the historical background to the Holocaust memoir Night, by Elie Wiesel.
We watched the 1993 movie Schindler’s List, directed by Steven Spielberg.

1. Which parts of the film did you find hardest to watch? Why do you think those parts affected you the most? When the holocaust started and they started killing people.

2. Which parts of the film gave you some positive feelings? Why do you think that was? When Oskar saved the Jews by letting them work in his factory and sacrifice himself for them.

3. What questions or issues do you have in mind now about the Holocaust, Human Rights, or anything else after watching this film? Why do the y have to kill the Jews and do they really have to start a war and kill over 6 million Jews?

4. What suggestions do you have for activities for the class to explore these questions? I want to learn more how they started and want to know every detail that happened in the holocaust.

 

The Jewish People and the Jewish Religion

We are learning about the historical background to the memoir Night, by Elie Wiesel.

  1. We watched two videos about Judaism (the Jewish Religion) and the Jewish people. Some things I found out were. I learned about Judaism religion and some of their words like Tzedakah. They were slave before but God set them free after 200 years and they travelled until they found a place where they started a Judaism religion.                                                                                                                                                                                                                             
  2. One thing I thought was interesting was?  How did they manage to learn the 613 commandments in the book of Abraham?
  3. I would like to find out more about?  Learn more about the Judaism religion.