Cross-Curricular Connections

The author says that Elie Wiesel was one of the first people to use the term “holocaust” to describe the Nazi killings of Jewish people. Click on the link below to visit the website of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C.

http://www.ushmm.org/

Elie Wiesel has traveled all over the world speaking about the horrors of the Holocaust and encouraging others to build a better world for themselves and the people around them. Click on the link below to learn about a speech Wiesel gave in 1989 at DePauw University.

http://www.depauw.edu/news/index.asp?id=17914