--Chalk Talk-- Genocide Holocaust Crimes Against Humanity Define the following terms:

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GenocideHolocaust

Crimes Against Humanity

Define the following terms:

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terms.

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GenocideHolocaust

Crimes Against Humanity

Genocide

Geno – from the Greek word genos, which means birth, race, of a similar kind

Geno-cide

-Cide – from the French word cida, which means to cut, kill

Holocaust

Holo – from the Greek word olos, which means “whole

Holo- caust

-caust – from the Greek works kaustos or kautos which means burnt

Derived from the Greek holokauston which meant a sacrifice totally burned by fire.

Holocaust• Appearing as early as the fifth century

B.C., the term can mean a sacrifice wholly consumed by fire or a great destruction of life, especially by fire.

• Today, the term refers to the systematic planned extermination of about six million European Jews and millions of others by the Nazis between 1933-1945.

Crimes Against Humanity

• Defined by the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court Explanatory Memorandum, "are particularly odious offences in that they constitute a serious attack on human dignity or grave humiliation or a degradation of one or more human beings.

Crimes Against Humanity

• Crimes against humanity defined by the Allies in article 6 (c) of the Nuremberg Charter (August 8, 1945) as follows: “murder, extermination, enslavement, deportation, and other inhumane acts committed against any civilian population…

By Elie Wiesel

“Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed. Never shall I forget that smoke. Never shall I forget the little faces of the children, whose bodies I saw turned into wreaths of smoke beneath a silent blue sky.”

Elie Wiesel

In 1944, however, Elie and all the

other Jews in town were rounded up in cattle cars and

deported to concentration

camps in Poland.

He was 14.

The Nightmare Begins

Night continued…

The original title Elie Wiesel gave the novel was And the World Has Remained Silent.

He wrote this book after 10 years of silence.