Night Lesson p 9-20 Updated

Night Lesson p 9-20

The ghettos of Sighet

Multiple Choice

1. Hindsight is 20/20. This saying means that you can see clearly when you look back at the past to understand your mistakes. You know the results of World War II. What irony is present in the Jewish response about the German soldiers who have entered Sighet?

• It is situational irony because no one expected the German soldiers to hurt them.

• It is dramatic irony because we know that the German soldiers are going to hurt the Jewish people, but the people of Sighet don't believe it because they are acting nice.

• It is not ironic at all

• It is verbal irony because the Jewish people don't mean what they say.

Multiple Select

Mark the first THREE Edicts / Mandates that the Jewish people had to obey.

• Jewish people had to stay inside of their homes for three days.

• Jewish people could not own gold, jewelry, or valuables.

• Jewish people had to bow or kneel when they saw German soldiers

• Jewish people had to wear a yellow star.

• Jewish people were not allowed to speak to Germans

Open Ended

1. Based on the context provided in the book what does it mean when he states, "the ghetto was to be liquidated"? What is going to happen?

Multiple Choice

surreptitiously means that you are doing something secretly so you don't get caught. Why would the Jewish police have to act surreptitiously to bring the other Jewish people water?

• They had to act surreptitiously because they didn't want anyone to have water.

• They had to act surreptitiously because secretly they hated the Jewish people.

• They had to act surreptitiously because they didn't want to get caught by the German soldiers when they gave the thirsty people water.

Multiple Choice

Why do you think they were made to wait for so long in the street, without water, standing up and sitting down, doing roll call over and over again?

• The Germans are trying to wear them down, to torment them so that no one will fight back.

• The Germans keep forgetting to write down how many people there are so they have to keep counting over again.

• They are actually playing a game and when they lose they have to stand up and get counted again.

Poll

Notice here that it is the Hungarian Police who are doing this to the Jewish people, not the German soldiers. What does this show you about discrimination when you think about the treatment of Jewish people during the Holocaust? (You can choose more than one)

• The German soldiers weren't the only ones who discriminated against the Jewish people.

• There were many people who could have tried to help the Jewish people but they did nothing.

• This is similar to the police attacking peaceful protestors at BLM marches.

• This doesn't relate to discrimination in my opinion

Open Ended

Why do you think Elie's father doesn't want to leave with the maid Maria?

Multiple Select

Which of the following examples from the text would make their stay at the synagogue horrendous? Choose the THREE that would make it horrendous.

• "The men were downstairs, the women upstairs."

• "The altar was shattered, the wall coverings shredded, the walls themselves bare."

• "There were so many of us , we could hardly breathe."

• "Forbidden to go outside, people relieved themselves (went to the bathroom) in the corner."

Open Ended

In the first reading, the people of Sighet didn't believe the Germans would get to them. In this reading they were put into ghettos and now they are about to be sent to the Concentration Camps. What is your reaction to the way they have been treated or how they have responded to the German occupation of Sighet?