Story
This is the story of a small child who was born in Poland. He had 2 sisters, the youngest was Julie she was 4 years, James was 8 and the older sister was Emily who had 12 years.
His parents were Peter and Victoria, they lived in a small house in Poland. His father work in a factory and the mother was a housewife. The childrens go to school until one day some German soldiers arrived and entered the classroom and told them that tomorrow the school will be closed and never will open it again this school was pure Jewish children.
Mom talked with Dad about this and he replied that in the factory where he work´s had gone too few soldiers who were told that the workers that were Jews from tomorrow will not work.The next day the children were playing outside his home with his friends in the neighborhood that they lived are all Jewish people, they saw that some militar cars are parked and they went down German soldiers that began knoking the door of all the houses when they came to the house of the brothers the soldiers told to the kids that go inside his house because they need to talk with they and his parents.
The soldiers told them that tomorrow at 7:00 am a train will be waiting to take them to a ghetto in Germany the soldiers told them they had to be punctual and not packed anything because they wouldn´t need anything. Then Peter gets upset and told the soldiers that he and his family would not leave his house that they had no right to take them out of their house.
Then a soldier told him that if he did not leave on time they would kill him and his entire family and gave him a blow with his gun in the stomach. The next day came at the scheduled time the train arrived and all their neighbors and friends was going up to the wagons of the train but it was so small that all was very tight and did not even they could sit.
They spent 3 days traveling they were hungry because they eat very little a friend of Victoria had a baby but he died on day 2 by hunger and cold the lady was very sad, crying all day and not wanted to get rid of her baby died.
The next day the soldiers told the family that on Friday they would lead to a concentration camp and that they would be split between men and women.Friday arrived all were scared because they did not want to separate they traveled for 2 days and half when they arrived at the concentration camp, divided into men and women.
James was crying because he did not want to leave without her mother and her sisters.Dad told her that everything would be right that nothing would happen to them when all ends they will beagain the happy family as before. James and his father arrived in the courtyard of the concentration camp where soldiers was giving instructions to them.
The soldiers kill to the old people, children and the young men go to work.The soldiers for them to identify they mark them with a number and each time the soldiers call them they called by their numbers.
One day Peter was working and he dropped an anvil, a soldier saw him and shot him but the soldier did not intend to kill him if not suffered until he died.
The soldier brought Peter to the place where they had all the bodies of Jews who had killed but still alive. The working day was over and Richie a friend of Peter and James came on and sits in the place where Peter slept.
James still not arrived from work and Richie was very sad for the dead of Peter.James came in and did not see his dad and asked Richie what happened to his father.Richie replied that a soldier kill him because he dropped an anvil, James began to cry and mourn for impotence that had not been able to be there help her father or to defend it.

Wich was the motto of the survivors of the Holacaust?
"Never Forget"

night page 66 to 84

What was the final solution? Who propose it?
This refere to their plan to annihilate the Jewish people and was proposed by Adolf Hitler.

Wich was the first alternative for the final solution?
By the end of 1941, Himmler and Heydrich were becoming increasingly impatient with the progress of the Final Solution. Their main opponent was Göring, who had succeeded in exempting Jewish industrial workers from the orders to deport all Jews to the General Government and who had allied himself with the Army commanders who were opposing the extermination of the Jews out of mixture of economic calculation, distaste for the SS and humanitarian sentiment. Although Göring's power had declined since the defeat of his Luftwaffe in the Battle of Britain, he still had privileged access to Hitler.

What is the D day?
The term day D the military men use it generically to indicate the day in which it is necessary to to initiate an assault or an operation of combat. The letter D does not have any meaning and usually it represents a variable, indicating the day in which some significant event has had or it will take place. At the end of they ' 40, were another version of the meaning by day D, this one was "Doomsday" the Day of Judgment.

Mention two of the most important SS officers:
Max Roithmeier, Max Schneider, Heinz Fritz Traeger, Georg Wache and Helmunt Wulf.

SOS
This part of the book was very interesting because when they served them of eating a person said that it should wait in order that puedieran to pray and since terminadorn of praying a man said that in order that hacian if god not towards case and they starts questioning hacerca of because if always they and his relatives pray to god because suffering this one.The man believe in god because it help in his problems and in this case them to have some hope that inside the field algun day they were going to be able to work out healthy and slavos and also to be able to pray for his relatives that were dead man in the concentration camps and that they suffered so much.

Night page 47 to 65

Why were the prisioners tattoed or marked on their forerarms? Does this action have a religious implication?
During the Holocaust, all the prisoners of the concentration camps were tattooed in the same complex: in Auschwitz's concentration camp, formed by Auschwitz I, Auschwitz II and Auschwitz III. To the prisoners who were coming there was assigned to them a number of series of the field, which was sewed to his uniforms. Only a number of series was given to the prisoners selected to work; those who were sent directly to the gas chambers, one neither was registering them they nor were tattooed.
Initially, to the prisoners who were in the hospital or who were going to be executed, the authorities of the SS they were marking the number of series of the field with indelible ink in the part of the uniform that was covering the chest. When the prisoners were executed or dying of some another way, the clothes were removing itself them with the number of series. Given the rate of mortality in the field, was impossible to identify the bodies after the clothes were removing itself them. In order to identify the corpses of the registered prisoners, the authorities of the SS initiated the practice of the tattoo.
Initially, there was used a special stamp of metal that had interchangeable numbers consisted of needles of approximately a centimeter of length. Thus it was possible to mark the complete number of series of an alone time in the top left part of the chest of the prisoner. Then there was rubbing ink with the bleeding wound.
Since the method of the metal stamp turned out to be slightly practical, one began to use a device of an alone needle, which was perforating in the skin the contour of the digits of the number of series. The place of the tattoo changed to the external side of the left forearm. Nevertheless, in 1943 the prisoners of several transport had the number tattooed in the internal top side of the left forearm. Generally, the number was tattooed when one was assigning it, in the moment of the record. The prisoners sent directly to the gas chambers were never assigned nor were tattooing a number.

Who were the kapos? Why did their fellowmen fear these leaders?
Kapo was a term used for certain prisoners that Nazi were employed inside the concentration camps during the Second World war at several lower administrative positions. The German word Kameraden Polizei the "foreman" and the " official can mean also non-commissioned ", and stems from the Frenchman for the "end" or from the Italian word boss. The kapos received more privileges that the normal prisoners, towards whom they were often brutal. The kapos were commonly prisoners that had offered to do this work in exchange for receiving the privileges.

How did secret service officers select their victims?
After the disappearance of the SA, Hitler assigned the SS ("Schutz-Staffeln", protection set squares) the control of the fields and Heinrich Himmler took charge organizing them. With such an end it created a few detachments destined for the service of custody of the fields, the "Totenkopfverbánde" (formations(trainings) of the skull), recruited between the most fanatical Nazi. The prisoners' first remittances come to the fields were forced to work under a discipline and in a few inhuman conditions to raise and to extend the establishments. Those that were not capable of supporting it were dying without remedy or were shot; nevertheless, in no case the truth was revealed on the deceased.


SOS
In this part of the book it hedescribes you since they were killing the Jews they say to you on the kapos and since they were selecting the persons to kill them and to put them to the gas chamber Also he says to you that whenever they were callig the jews they wer not calling by her name they were calling by the number they had in her arm.
I watch a video in one page of internet it's about genosides since the holocaust to the war of Irak he is the link if you want to watch it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsjQurQZJyk

Night page 23 to 46

What is a Ghetto?
The term came into expanded use in Ghettos in occupied Europe 1939-1944 where the Jews were required to live prior to their transportation to concentration and extermination camps.
The term ghetto still has a similar meaning, but referring to broader range of social situations, such as any poverty-stricken urban area.
A ghetto is formed in three ways:

• As ports of entry for racial minorities, and immigrant racial minorities
• When the majority uses compulsion (typically violence, hostility, or legal barriers) to force minorities into particular areas.
• When economic conditions make it difficult for minority members to live in non-minority areas.

Where did the Nazi Army settle those ghettos?
Most of the ghettos located mainly in Eastern Europe occupied by the Nazis were enclosed with walls, barbed wire fences or gates. The ghettos were overcrowded and were extremely unhealthy. Hunger, chronic shortages, harsh winters and lack of public services resulted in outbreaks and high mortality. The largest ghetto in Poland was the Warsaw ghetto, where approximately 450,000 Jews were crowded into an area of 1.3 square miles. Other important were the ghettos of Lodz, Krakow (Cracow), Bialystok, Lvov, Lublin, Vilna, Kovno, Czestochowa, and Minsk.


What is the difference between a concentration camp and extermination camp?
The concentration camps:
Most of the prisoners in the first concentration camps were German Communists, socialists, social democrats, Roma (Gypsies), Jehovah's Witnesses, homosexuals and Christian clergy, and people accused of conduct "asocial" or abnormal. After the annexation of Austria in March 1938, the Nazis arrested German and Austrian Jews and imprisoned them in camps of Dachau, Buchenwald and Sachsenhausen, in Germany. After the pogroms of Kristallnacht in November 1938, the Nazis carried out mass arrests of Jewish men and imprisoned them in camps for short periods


The extermination camps
This were designed to exterminate the Jews who were murdered just entering the field, which from 1945 until 1942 and led to the Holocaust or Shoah, and the deaths of approximately six million Jews.


Locate the following camps in a map and explain if they are concentration or extermination camps:

• Bergen- Belzen- It was a concentration camp builded in 1936

• Aushwitz- there was 3 tipes of camps Aushwits I the original concentration camp which served as administrative center for the whole complex. In this area killed nearly 70,000 Polish intellectuals and Soviet prisoners of war, Aushwits II an extermination camp and the place where they died about a million Jews and about 19,000 Gypsies and Aushwitz III.

• Dachau- It was the firs concentration camp and the Germans used as an exmple for the other concentration camps.

• Trebilka- It was an extermination camp that began killing inocent people in july 1942 till october 1943.
  
  
• Buchenwald- It was the biggest concentration camp it was funccion during july 1937 till april 1945.

SOS
This part of the book I thik is the most important because he bagan talking about all the bad treats that the germans do to Jewish people.
The part when the friend of his father told thet he works in the crematoriums and that he need to burn his dad I think that he coluldn´t do it but well he need to do it because if not the germans will kill him and I suppose that when he burn his dad he feel like sad, impotence and courage.
While I was researching the information we need I found a page that said that some Nazis were working in the goverment of the United States I personally I don´t agree with this because they are bad people and I think all the Nazis soldiers were killed the same way as they do to the Jewish people.

Night page 3 to 22

Background
During 1941, Ion Antonescu, the head of the Romanian
government, ordered all Romanian Jews including those in Southern
Transylvania expelled from their villages and towns. During the expulsion,
the authorities found that the large cities where they had planned to station
the Jews were not suitable.
During 1942, southern Transylvanian Jewish leaders traveled to Bucharest to
enlist the help of Romanian Jewish leader Wilhelm Filderman.
During 1943, the situation of the Jewish people improve a little bit.
During 1944, they were able to rescue thousand of Jewish from Northern
Transylvania and Hungary, where Jews were being arrested and deported.
The circumstances of the Jews of Southern Transylvania changed in
September 1944, soon after the Romanian army surrendered to the Soviets.
The Hungarian army occupied an area along the northern border of Southern
Transylvania. Most Jews fled the region, but the Hungarians murdered any
they could find. The area was liberated that month, but when the Romanian
army reoccupied most of Southern Transylvania, no Jews were left.

Map of the place

Transylvania

Sighet

Information about Elie Wiesel

He was born in Sighet, a little town in Transylvania now Sighetu Marmatiei, Maramures, Kingdom of Romania, in the Carpatian Mountains, his parents was Shlomo and Sarah Wiesel. Sarah was the daughter of Dodye Feig, a celebrated Vishnitz Hasid and farmer from a nearby village. Shlomo was an Orthodox Jew of Hungarian descent, and a shopkeeper who ran his own grocery store. He was active and trusted within the community, and had spent a few months in jail for having helped Polish Jews who escaped and were hungry in the early years of his life. It was Shlomo who instilled a strong sense of humanism in his son, encouraging him to learn Modern Hebrew and to read literature, whereas his mother encouraged him to study Torah and Kabbalah. Elie Wiesel has said his father represented reason, and his mother faith. Elie Wiesel had three sisters: Hilda and Beatrice, who were older than he, and Tzipora, who was the youngest in the family. Bea and Hilda also survived the war and eventually emigrated to North America; in Bea's case, to Montréal, Canada. Tzipora, Shlomo and Sarah did not survive the war.

In 1940 Romania lost the town of Sighet following the Second Vienna Award. In 1944 Elie, his family and the rest of the town were placed in one of the two ghettos in Sighet. Elie and his family lived in the larger of the two, on Serpent Street. On May 16, 1944, the Hungarian authorities deported the Jewish community in Sighet to Auschwitz-Birkenau. While at Auschwitz, his inmate number, "A-7713", was tattooed onto his left arm. Wiesel was separated from his mother and sister Tzipora, who are presumed to have died at Auschwitz. Wiesel and his father were sent to the attached work camp Buna-Werke, a subcamp of Aushwitz III Monowitz. He managed to remain with his father for a year as they were forced to work under appalling conditions and shuffled between three concentration camps in the closing days of the war. On January 29, 1945, just a few weeks after the two were marched to Buchenwald, Wiesel's father died from dysentery, starvation and exhaustion, and later was sent to the crematorium, only months before the camp was liberated by the American Third Army on April 11.

After the war, Wiesel was placed in a French orphanage, where he learned French and was reunited with his older sisters, Hilda and Bea, who had also survived the war. In 1948 he studied philosophy at the Sorbonne. He taught Hebrew and worked as a choirmaster before becoming a professional journalist. He wrote for Israeli and French newspapers, including Tsien in Kamf and L´arche. However, for ten years after the war, Wiesel refused to write about or discuss his experiences during the Holocaust. Like many survivors, Wiesel could not find the words to describe his experiences. However, a meeting with Francois Mauriac, the 1952 Nobel Laureate in Literature, who eventually became Wiesel's close friend, persuaded him to write about his experiences. Wiesel first wrote the 245-page memoir Un di velt hot geshvign (And the World Remained Silent), in Yiddish, which was published in abridged form in Buenos Aires. Wiesel rewrote a shortened version of the manuscript in French, and it was published as the 127-page autobiography La Nuit, and later translated into English as Night. Even with Mauriac's support, Wiesel had trouble finding a publisher for his book, and initially it sold few copies.

SOS

I think this part of the novel is interesting because Elie began describing the place where does he used to live his familli and all the bad things that the germans do to the Jewish people.

I think the option to kill the Jewish is bad because this persons didn't do nothing to the germans the way that the soldiers treated the Jewish is not good.

In some films that I watched about this theme said that some german civils things that the things that the soldiers do to Jewish peolple are not fair because they are persons like us with all the obligations and rights like us even the Jewish people work more harder that the other people because they think about the situations that his compatriots live in the Holocaust and there the germans punished if they don´t work and after that the Jewish work more harder but after the war they work harder because all that race was very poor but after the war the work harder and harder and the are rich.

In the part of the book that they pray I think is a good manner to forgot about all the bad things that they were living on that days. The human create religion because in some cases they need to believe in something and that they think that god will help them I think this way of thinking is good if I were in a war I will do the same.

I think this book makes you reflexionate about the ingustice that the man do and the do to persons like them. The racism is bad I don´t understand why people discriminate people because the believe in a differet god or the color of his skin.

I hope that some day this situation ends.