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**Laura's Engligh Work....**   **  __ Between Which two years did WW2 take place? __ **        It started in the year 1939 and went up to the year 1945.                    ** __Which group of countries are the allies?__ t **  he british, the union of soviet socialist russia and united states of america.

** __//Meaning's://__ **
 * __Holocaust-__ ** the systematic mass slaughter of European Jews in Nazi concentration camps during World War II
 * __Ghetto-__ **(formerly, in most European countries) a section of a city in which all Jews were required to live.
 * __Persecution-__ **a program or campaign to exterminate, drive away, or subjugate a people because of their religion, race, or beliefs:  //the persecutions of Christians by the Romans.//

** __Concentration camps-__ **After 1939 with the beginning of the 2nd World War, concentration camps increasingly became places where the enemies of the Nazis were killed, enslaved, starved, and tortured. During the War concentration camps for “undesirables” spread throughout Europe. New camps were created near centers of dense “undesirable” populations, often focusing on areas with large communities of Jewish, Polish intelligentsia, Communists, or Roma. Prisoners were transported under horrifying conditions using rail freight cars, in which many died before they reached their destination, and there were instances where only ten prisoners-to-be would be alive to come out of a cart packed with one hundred. The prisoners were confined to the rail cars, often for days or weeks, without food or water.


 * __Reflection:__** After reading Night, it made me think about if i was in the same situation as Elie, would i have coped. My answer was no. I think it took a lot of strength for Elie to cope through the whole thing and that he deserved to come out alive! Overall i thought the book was confusing at times but left me wondering what happened to the rest of Elie's family. I just presumed they all died.I dont think i would read it again though.

__**Quote:**__ //"His last word had been my name. He had called out to me and i had not answered. I did not weep, and it pained me that i could not weep. But i was out of tears".// pg.112. Theme- Relationships, Response-during the book the relationship chamged between Elie and his father and i think this is a good example of this. I think the relationship changed over time because it was the only way to survive. For others it made relationships between family stronger, but if one fell behind it was effecting everyone else and that was the only way Elie could survive was to let his dad go.

 A great start Laura but where's the reflection on your overall impression and your writing about the quote that stands out most? - KP   **SIGNIFICANCE OF THE NUMBER 7 THING...** A highly symbolic number in the [|Torah], alluding to the infusion of spirituality and Godliness into the [|creation]. For example: 1.  [|God] rested on and sanctified the seventh day ([|Shabbat]). 2.  A seven-day [|purification] period is required for one who has become // tamei // to become // tahor //. 3.  The // [|Shmita] // (Sabbatical) year arrives every seventh year. 4.  The [|Jubilee] (// Yovel //) year comes after 7 times 7 years. 5.  The [|Counting of the Omer] leading up to the Giving of the Torah is expressed as "7 times 7 weeks." 6.  There are 7 days of [|Passover] and [|Sukkot] when celebrated in [|Israel]. 7.  Shiv`a (another pronunciation of the Hebrew word for 7 -- ([|Hebrew]: ** שבעה ** ; "seven")), is the number of days of mourning. Hence, one // sits Shiva //. As in [|Shiva (Judaism)]    The weekly [|Torah] portion is divided into seven [|aliyahs], and seven men or boys over the age of 13 are called up for the reading of these aliyahs during [|Shabbat] morning services.    Seven blessings are recited under the [|chuppah] during a Jewish wedding ceremony.    A Jewish bride and groom are feted with seven days of festive meals after their wedding, known as // Sheva Berachot // ("Seven Blessings").    The number of [|Ushpizzin] (also known as the "Seven Shepherds") who visit the sukkah during the holiday of [|Sukkot]: [|Abraham], [|Isaac], [|Jacob], [|Joseph], [|Moses], [|Aaron], and [|David].    The number of nations God told the [|Israelites] they would displace when they entered the land of [|Israel] (Deut. 7:1): the [|Hittite], the [|Girgashite], the [|Amorite], the [|Canaanite], the [|Perizzite], the [|Hivite], and the [|Jebusite].    In [|Breslov] tradition, the seven orifices of the face (2 eyes, 2 [|nostrils], 2 ears, and the mouth) are called "The Seven Candles." <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol">   The menorah (Hebrew: מנורה), is a seven branched candelabrum lit by olive oil in the Tabernacle and the Temple in Jerusalem. The menorah is one of the oldest symbols of the Jewish people. It is said to symbolize the burning bush as seen by Moses on Mount Sinai (Exodus 25). <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol">   The number of times Cain will be avenged by God if he is murdered (Gen 4:15). <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol">   The [|Israelites] circled [|Jericho] for 7 days and then the wall tumbled down. <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol">   Yahweh or Jehovah is the divine name, whose letters' placed alphabetically equal 70, a product of the divine number 7.

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