Night Background Info & Vocab

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A sketch of the author’s life from birth to writing

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autobiography

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Focuses on one aspect of the writer’s life

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memoir

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Author of Night:

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Elie Wiesel

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Year Nazi party gained power in Germany?

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1933

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Germany invaded _______ in 1939, starting WWII

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Poland

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Largest extermination camp?

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Auschwitz-Birkenau

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Postwar European Jewish Population, ca. 1950?

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3.5 million

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Complete destruction by fire

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Holocaust

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Deliberate extermination of a national, racial, political, or cultural group

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Genocide

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Preconceived opinion or feeling without knowledge or reason

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prejudice