2/3/15 homework

Dear Students,

Please answer the following questions in complete sentences:

In today’s lesson you learned that the Nazis took over Eliezer’s Jewish community. What happened to Eliezer’s mother and sisters? Where did the Germans take Eliezer and his father?  Use information from today’s reading to help you answer the questions. 

**Today's class reading is below**

Elie Wiesel’s memoir Night describes a horrible time in the twentieth century, when too many people looked away from a terrible wrong.

In 1941, Eliezer was a 12-year-old boy who lived with his father, mother, and three sisters in a small village near the border of Romania and Hungary.

Eliezer was a religious boy who welcomed nightfall as a time for prayer and who thought of becoming a rabbi.

But when Nazis took over Eliezer’s Jewish community, his family was first sent to live in a ghetto and then taken to Auschwitz, one of the most infamous concentration camps.

Eliezer and his father were separated from Eliezer’s mother and sisters. He would never see his mother or his youngest sister, Tzipora, again.

Germany began World War II when it invaded Poland in 1939. German forces conquered most of Europe in the next two years.

When Germans took over Jews were persecuted, were forced to wear yellow stars, to live in ghettos, and were then sent to concentration camps.

Auschwitz, where Wiesel was sent, was the largest camp. Jews from all over Europe arrived almost daily at Auschwitz.

World War II ended in Europe in 1945 with the surrender of German forces to the Allied forces. But not before more than six million Jews had been killed.