Transcript Children of the Holocaust

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
The Expository Writing Assignment
An expository writing takes ideas and content : <Describes it <Explains it
< Informs readers <Summaries it
Introduction: State the topic in the form of a topic sentence
Include details that support the topic. (The topic is the life of this
child) You need to include a quote, parapharse and summarize
Include relevant information about this child’s tragic life: Child’s name, family
background, life in the camp or in hiding, circumstances of their death or
release
Conclusion: Restate the topic in a way different from the way the topic was
introduced. End the piece by leaving the reader with an idea to think about.
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
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.
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
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
Cornell Note Taking Form
Child’s name
Quote
Family background
Life in the camp or in hiding
Circumstances of death or
release
Paraphrase
Summary
What impact did Anne Frank have on
the lives of others?
What impact did Anne Frank
have on the lives of others?
Support Page_____
Topics
Summary
Details
Find evidence to support your thesis
• Anne Frank