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Children of the Holocaust. The Innocent Victims of Prejudice and Genocide. Between 1933 and 1945, the German government led by Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party carried out the systematic persecution and murder of Europe’s Jews. This genocide is now known as the Holocaust. www.ushmm.org.
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Children of the Holocaust The Innocent Victims of Prejudice and Genocide
Between 1933 and 1945, the Germangovernment led by Adolf Hitler and theNazi Party carried out the systematicpersecution and murder of Europe’s Jews.This genocide is now knownas the Holocaust.www.ushmm.org
The Nazi regime also persecuted and killed millions of other people it consideredpolitically, racially, or socially unfit.www.ushmm.org
The Allies’ victory ended World War II, butNazi Germany and its collaborators had leftmillions dead and countless lives shattered.www.ushmm.org
Your Assignments • Look up a child of the Holocaust that you have been assigned and would like to know more about • Write Cornell Notes with a well written summary on your child. • Create a commemorative button honoring this child. • Present button and information about your child.
DAY ONE: RESEARCH • Today you will research your child and create Cornell Note’s with a summary on your child.
Here is how to find your child: Type in Children of the Holocaust, The Museum of Tolerance on a Google search www.museumoftolerance.com
DAY TWO: COMMEMORATE • Today you will be creating a commemorative button about your child. • You will present your button to the class tomorrow.
Create a Button • Commemorate a victim of the Holocaust by creating a button in his or her honor. • FRONT: picture, name of your child, decorate it. • BACK: Name of your child, information to remember him/her, decorate it. • Who was your child? • Where did he/she come from? • Was he/she sent to a camp, ghetto, or hiding? • Did he/she survive? • Include any interesting facts you would like to add. • All written information must be typed.
INGE AUERBACHER • The following slides show examples of a button and notes for one child of the Holocaust.
IngeAuerbachber Button Info. • Born: December 31, 1934, Kippenheim, Germany • Age 7, deported to the Theresienstadt ghetto in Czechoslovakia • May 8, 1945, Inge and her parents were liberated from the Theresienstadtghetto • They emigrated to the United States in May 1946. Inge Auerbachber
The Auerbacher Family • This is Inge Auerbacher with her family • The title of her book is I Am a Star
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