Holocaust+Memoirs

__**Literary Analysis Essay**__ **Culminating Assignment** **for the Unit**: Analyze a primary character in a memoir. Explain what sort of person he or she is. Identify and describe his or her environment, circumstances, and any other forces that may have affected him or her. Then explain how these environments, circumstances, or other forces shaped or changed the character. Finally, explain how this character’s story might affect readers. What theme or message might readers take away from this memoir?

__**Researching Historical Background**__ To better understand what happened to the characters in //Night// and //Maus//, you will explore the historical background of these memoirs: the Holocaust. **Use one of the sites below or another approved site for this research. Do not use Wikipedia or simply complete a Goggle search.**

[|General Article on the Holocaust] from ** the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ( **USHMM) [|General Article] from PBS
 * Holocaust Overviews**

[|Dehumanization] - This article comes from a website on intractable world conflicts. The Lucifer Effect - This book review includes a definition dehumanization and a discussion of the origins of human evil.
 * Information on Dehumanization in General**


 * Sites for Research (primary and secondary sources)**
 * [|Holocaust Encyclopedia] - produced by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) **
 * [|The British Library's Voices of the Holocaust] **
 * [|Maps, Chronology, and Glossary from the British Library] **
 * [|USHMM Photographs] - for searching photographs **

[|What is Genocide?] [|Nazi Racial Ideology] [|Ghettos] [|Nazi Camps] Living Conditions, Labor, and Executions Execution Room at the Mauthausen Camp [|Genocide of European Roma Gypsies] [|Women during the Holocaust] [|Children during the Holocaust] Elie Wiesel Biographies: [|Wiesel Foundation] [|Jewish Virtual Library] [|Night Reader's Guide] from Oprah.com - this site includes a description Wiesel's recent visit to Auschwitz with photographs Art Spiegelman Biographies: [|Lambiek] (w/ link to an interview) [|Jewish Virtual Library] [|Effect of Holocaust on Suicide Rate] (Thanks, Mollie-Emma!) [|Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder among Survivors] (Thanks, Kady!) [|Effects on the Children of Holocaust Survivors] "[|U.S widow deported over Nazi past]" (Thanks, Olivia!) "[|Telling the Holocaust Like it Wasn't]" - "Nothing came out of the camps. Nothing"; myth of redemption in Holocaust texts and movies [|Hitler's Rise to Power] (Thanks, Sam L!) [|American Women during WWII] (Thanks, Summer!)
 * Articles on Specific Topics**

[|From the British Library] (transcripts and audio, organized by topic/time period) [|From the Shoah Foundation] (videos) [|From the USHMM] (transcripts and videos, organized by topic/time period) [|From Holocaustsurvivors.org] - Thanks, Sulaymane! (personal narratives, audio, and photographs) [|Gerda and Kurt Klein] - Polish prisoner and American soldier who met during liberation and were married after the war [|War Orphans] - experiences of children after the war [|Camps] - descriptions of arriving at a Nazi camp [|Tales of Survival] - descriptions of how people survived [|Tales of Survival 2] - these oral histories focus on the importance of having bonds with others to survive [|Tales of Survival 3] - these focus on mothers' efforts to keep their children alive Nota Bene
 * Survivor Testimony**