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Children of the Holocaust. The Innocent Victims of Prejudice and Genocide. Your Assignments. Look up a child of the Holocaust that you would like to know more about Print out the biography of the child of your choice Create an expository writing that explains this child’s tragic life
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Children of the Holocaust The Innocent Victims of Prejudice and Genocide
Your Assignments • Look up a child of the Holocaust that you would like to know more about • Print out the biography of the child of your choice • Create an expository writing that explains this child’s tragic life • Create a commemorative button honoring this child
Biography of a Holocaust Victim Type in Children of the Holocaust on a Google search Children of the Holocaust
Choose a Child from the List • Name Birthdate Place Hans Ament February 15, 1934 Vienna, Austria Sura Andrezejko 1927 Stawiski, Poland Ulrich Wolfgang ArnheimNovember 2, 1927 Berlin, Germany Inge Auerbacher December 31, 1934 Kippenheim, Germany
Inge Auerbachber • At age 4 she and her father was placed in a concentration camp • August 22, 1942 Inge and her family were deported to the Theresienstadt camp in Czechoslovakia Inge Auerbachber
The Auerbacher Family • This is Inge Auerbacher with her family • The title of her book is I am a Star
Daily Life of the Child You Selected Terms you might need to explore • Concentration Camps- Auschwitz, Dachau • Ghettos-Thereseinstadt • Kristallnacht-The night of broken glass
The Jewish People Imprisoned • Thereseinsdt Ghetto Czechoslovakia 15.000 children were imprisoned there Inge was one of only 100 children to survive
A young girl unsure of her fate A girl from the Theresienstadt ghetto who was put on one of the transports to Auschwitz camp. The girl is wearing a yellow badge and around her neck is a string with a piece of paper on which is written the transport number - 671.
Theresienstadt Ghetto • THERESIENSTADT • On November 24, 1941, the Germans established a Jewish ghetto in the fortress town of Terezin, Czechoslovakia. Known by its German name, Theresienstadt, until its liberation on May 8, 1945, it functioned as a ghetto and transit camp on the route to Auschwitz. Most of those imprisoned in Theresienstadt were German, Czech, Dutch, and Danish Jews; elderly and prominent Jews and Jewish veterans of World War I were also sent there.
Work Makes You Free • This was a slogan used by the Nazis • It was a cruel way of giving false hope to the Jewish prisoners
The Outcome of the Holocaust Liberation of concentration camp prisoners The defeat of Hitler US and Soviet Troops invade Germany Nuremburg Trials
Find evidence to support your thesis • Anne Frank