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Children of the Holocaust The Innocent Victims of Prejudice and Genocide

Children of the Holocaust The Innocent Victims of Prejudice and Genocide

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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

The Expository Writing Assignment

An expository writing takes ideas and content : <Describes it An expository writing takes ideas and content : <Describes it <Explains it < Informs readers <Summaries it<Explains it < Informs readers <Summaries it

Introduction: State the topic in the form of a topic sentenceIntroduction: State the topic in the form of a topic sentence

Include details that support the topic. (The topic is the life of Include details that support the topic. (The topic is the life of this child) You need to include a quote, parapharse and this child) You need to include a quote, parapharse and summarize summarize

Include relevant information about this child’s tragic life: Child’s Include relevant information about this child’s tragic life: Child’s name, family background, life in the camp or in hiding, circumstances name, family background, life in the camp or in hiding, circumstances of their death or releaseof their death or release

ConclusionConclusion: : ReRestate the topic in a way different from the way the state the topic in a way different from the way the topic was introduced. End the piece by leaving the reader with an topic was introduced. End the piece by leaving the reader with an idea to think about.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 GhettoCzechoslovakia15.000 children were

imprisoned thereInge 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 HitlerUS and Soviet Troops

invade GermanyNuremburg Trials

Cornell Note Taking FormChild’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 have on the lives

Anne Frankof others?

Support Page_____

Topics Details

Summary

Find evidence to support your thesis

• Anne Frank