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

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

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--Chalk Talk--

GenocideHolocaust

Crimes Against Humanity

Define the following terms:

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Share with a partner your definition & then come up with a common definition for each of the

terms.

Be ready to share.

GenocideHolocaust

Crimes Against Humanity

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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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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…

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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

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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

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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.