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Class Handouts:

• You filled in the blanks in this glossary of terms connected to the Holocaust and Night.
• Here's a look at the themes and issues of Night through an opinion exercise called "Who Was Responsible?"
• A fill-in-the-blanks plot review that covers pages 1-80.
• The take-home writing assignment, where you write about an issue of importance to you in the world.

Resources on the Internet:

• I like this interview with Elie Wiesel, in which he talks about the pleasures of teaching, how he is not a public figure, and this, on his greatest disappointment: "I believe that those of us who went through the war and tried to write about it, about their experience, became messengers. We have given the message, and nothing changed. Human nature remained what it was. Society remained what it was. Too much indifference in the world, to the Other, his pain, and anguish, and hope. That is my greatest sorrow, my great disappointment."
• The Wikipedia entry on the book is lengthy and well-informed.
• Sure, there are Spark Notes and Book Rags and things like that on the internet, but surely you can read this skinny little book without them; it's about the same length and effort, anyway.
• Of the many biographies of Elie Wiesel on the net, here's a short one.
• The Academy of Achievement has a nice, lengthy interview with Wiesel, including places to click for audio and video versions.
• Since Night was chosen for Oprah Winfrey's book club, she has provided some nice features on her website, including a nice interactive timeline, an interactive map, and more about the author, the book, and the Holocaust.
• There are many excellent sites on the internet dealing with the Holocaust. Among them...
• Yad Vashem's Shoah Resource Center, with an exhaustive (and exhausting) list of documents, photographs, testimonies, and artifacts.
• The website of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
• Remember.org's Cybrary of the Holocaust.
• The Jewish Virtual Library's many pages devoted to detailing and remembering the Holocaust.
• The Holocaust: Crimes, Heroes, and Villains, which includes many pages on people who helped to save Jews or fight Nazis during the period.
• And a site I have used repeatedly, designed for teachers but useful for students, called A Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust.

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