The+FAQs+Project+Guidelines

By Mrs. Nobles


(Here is last year's wiki so you can see more of them)
 * What is the Holocaust FAQs assignment?**
 * What are the guidelines?**
 * How will my FAQs be evaluated?**
 * Can you show me an example of a FAQs project?**


 * Two helpful research links:**
 * [|The United Holocaust Memorial Museum]:** the starting place for all of your Internet research
 * [|Easy Bib]:** your best friend when it comes to making a Works Cited page!


 * Section 1 Ideas:**
 * Nazi symbol came from a church
 * Hitler wanted to be an art major, was homeless for 3 years, enlisted as a soldier at 25, involved in WWI
 * The many times he did not die (what Hitler thought of it)
 * Assassination attempts
 * Gift of public speaking
 * His actions after being elected -- what he pretended versus what he really intended
 * Non-aggression Act
 * Kept the plan for war a secret from the Germans
 * Hitler Youth
 * Hitler's illnesses? Was there something wrong?
 * Got married two days before suicide

Elie Wiesel:
 * 15 when went to the camps
 * Teacher who likes to help people
 * Spent time at Auschwitz and moved to Buchenwald
 * Really likes children
 * He regrets the most that he let his father die alone
 * Sent to an orphanage after liberation
 * Won the Nobel Peace Prize
 * Never hated anyone (his mission in life)
 * Met his sisters after the war in Paris
 * Doesn't know why he survived and is not comfortable with it
 * Married with a son (allowed his son to bring up his past)
 * Has written more than 50 books
 * Despite having books and these stories, you can never really know what it was like -- need to at least go there
 * In the camps, he learned that if you were a killer, you were meant to kill, otherwise, you were meant to die

WWII Elie Wiesel:
 * Section 2 Ideas:**
 * Hitler was a very good artist (watercolor)
 * Nazi symbol came from a church
 * Hitler's health issues: left arm numbness, hypochondriac, not mad ... abnormal?
 * Top of his class as a child, architecture, speaking, Iron Cross award (liked being a soldier)
 * Eva Braun
 * Wrote //Mein Kampf//
 * The German people: did not know he wanted war, Hitler blew off treaties, he did not want to go to war against Britain and France
 * Victims: Jewish, twins, homosexuals, Russians POW, Gypsies, political prisoners
 * Professor, activist, writer, won Nobel Peace Prize in 1986
 * Even though all this was done to him, he does not hate the people who did it
 * Did not want to survive but did anyway
 * Tutor, choir director, reporter throughout his life
 * Works with people
 * Post the war, went to an orphanage in France (liberation)
 * Relationship with dad in the camps
 * Reunited with both sisters
 * When someone does not have gratitude, something is missing
 * Did not know why he survived -- why would God choose him and not others
 * He lost belief in God during the war
 * He only has a few answers and even now has not figured everything out
 * Because he survived, he feels he owes it to work for people and help them
 * He did not let what happen to him destroy him
 * He is married and has a son