1. Children of the Holocaust
The Innocent Victims of Prejudice and Genocide

2. 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
Write Cornell Notes on your child.
Type up an expository writing piece that explains this child’s tragic life
Create a commemorative button honoring this child

3. Biography of a Holocaust Victim
Type in Children of the Holocaust on a Google search
Children of the Holocaust

4. Choose a Child from the List
Name Birthdate Place Hans Ament February 15, Vienna, Austria Sura Andrezejko Stawiski, Poland Ulrich Wolfgang ArnheimNovember 2, Berlin, Germany Inge Auerbacher December 31, Kippenheim, Germany

5. Cornell Note Taking Form
Child’s name
Important Quote(s)
Family background
Life in the camp or in hiding
Circumstances of death or release
Paraphrased Information
Summary

6. The Expository Writing Assignment
Expository writing conveys ideas, concepts and information.
When doing expository writing you will do all of the following:
<Research <Organize <Describe <Explain < Inform <Summarize
Introduction: (The topic is the life of this child)
Create a well written topic sentence.
Include details that support the topic. You are required to include a quote, paraphrased information and summarized information.
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.

8. Inge Auerbachber
At age 4 she and her father were placed in a concentration camp
August 22, 1942 Inge and her family were deported to the Theresienstadt camp in Czechoslovakia
Inge Auerbachber

9. The Auerbacher Family This is Inge Auerbacher with her family
The title of her book is I am a Star

10. 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

11. The Jewish People Imprisoned
Thereseinsdt Ghetto
Czechoslovakia
children were imprisoned there
Inge was one of only 100 children to survive

12. 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

13. 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.

14. 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

15. The Outcome of the Holocaust
Liberation of concentration camp prisoners
The defeat of Hitler
US and Soviet Troops invade Germany
Nuremburg Trials