Elie Wiesel Mattia Luccarini, Bogdan Greavu, Mattia Marci, Matteo Trombetti What are we going to talk about? 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Introduction Elie Wiesel Prevention Act video Elie Wiesel Obama and Elie Wiesel Genocide Quotes of Elie Wiesel Video-summary about the lesson The Elie Wiesel genocide and atrocities prevention act https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owAgUd u5Eig Life (september 30, 1929 - July 2, 2016) ● Romanian- born American Jewish writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate and Holocaust survivor. Life ● Wiesel was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986: he had delivered a message of peace, atonement and human dignity to humanity Life ● He was a founding member of the New York Human Rights Foundation and remained active throughout his life. http://eliewieselfoundation.org Obama and Elie Wiesel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKnCPV1f9E8 Genocide - Introduction We can’t explain what does genocide mean, because we didn’t live it. Genocide - How is genocide usually defined? Genocide is known by most to be the gravest crime against humanity it is possible to commit. Genocide - UN definition ● Coined in 1943 by Raphael Lemkin ● UN Convention in December 1948 ● Definition of genocide in the Article 2 of the Convention Genocide - History 1. The massacre of the Armenians by the Turks 2. The Holocaust 3. The genocide of Tutsis in Rwanda New Vocabulary deport = transfer someone with the force, without his willing holocaust = a situation in which many things are destroyed and many people killed, especially because of a war [the Holocaust = the killing of millions of Jews by the Nazis in the 1930s and the 1940s] atonement = the acting in a way that shows you’re sorry for doing smth wrong in the past wipe sb off the face of the earth = to destroy or remove sb completely