Homework: January 4

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

This month we are reading Night by Elie Wiesel.  

For Homework:  Read the following section from an essay Wiesel wrote for NPR.

"I remember because I was there with my father. We worked together. We returned to the camp together. We stayed in the same block. We slept in the same box. We shared bread and soup.  With him, our past would die; with me, our future.

The moment the war ended, I believed — we all did — that anyone who survived death must bear witness." 

Level 1 and 2:  Why is it important for him and other survivors to bear witness to the Holocaust?




"I remember because I was there with my father. We worked together. We returned to the camp together. We stayed in the same block. We slept in the same box. We shared bread and soup.  With him, our past would die; with me, our future.

The moment the war ended, I believed — we all did — that anyone who survived death must bear witness. Some of us even believed that they survived in order to become witnesses. But then I knew deep down that it would be impossible to communicate the entire story."

Level 3: Why is it important for him and other survivors to bear witness to the Holocaust?
Why does he consider it impossible to communicate the entire story?


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