1. Night by Elie Wiesel English Research Project Term 2
By Mark Martin
12/23/11

2. Children of the Holocaust
One and a half million Jewish children were murdered by the Germans and their collaborators during the Holocaust.

3. Lost Children of the Holocaust
Ruth Moses age 6
Born 1935 in Germany
Her family was forced to live in a Ghetto in Latvia
Ghetto residents were latter gassed in a mobile gas chamber, shot or sent to labor camps
Her Death is unknown

4. Lost Children of the Holocaust
Nissim Mordehay
Born January 8, 1932 in Bulgaria
Nine years old when Bulgaria allied itself with Germany
The Jews of Old Bulgaria were saved due to the courageous defiance of the King of Bulgaria and his people.
He lived in a country that was able to protect its Jewish citizens
Saved

5. Lost Children of the Holocaust
Greti Skala
Born August 10,1935 in Czechoslovakia
She and her mother were liberated from Bergan - Belsen
At age 9 died of typhus, shortly after being sent free

6. Lost Children of the Holocaust
Victor Rona
Born December 26, 1928 in Rumania
Strong and healthy at age 15 years old he was forced into a labor camps
From June 1944 till April 1945 he labored in 4 different labor camps in Germany
Died after being set free at age 16 from an untreated bayonet wound received in the labor camp

7. Renowned Children of the Holocaust
Anne Frank
June 12, 1929 – Died age 15
Born Frankfurt, Germany moved from Germany to the Netherlands to avoid Nazi
2 years her family hid in hidden rooms in Amsterdam
Captured and sent to concentration camp Bergen-Belsen
Died of typhus with her sister Margot
After the war her father found and published her now famous diary

8. Renowned Children of the Holocaust
Slama Miroslav
Born August 3, 1917 in Czechoslovakia
Death November 30, 2008
Prisoner in the Concentration Camp in Czech Republic
Professional ice hockey player for Czechoslovak the national team
Won a silver medal at the 1948 Winter Olympics
Defected to Switzerland in December 1948 during an ice hockey tournament

9. Renowned Children of the Holocaust
Elie Wiesel
Born September 30,1928 in Romania
Prisoner at Auschwitz – Birkenau at age 15 ½
Prisoner ID# A-7713 was tattooed on his arm
Author of 57 book including Night
Parents and younger sister perished in concentration camps
Noble Peace Prize Winner

10. Hyperlink
“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”

11. Sources www.ltcpraha.ic.cz – slide 8
Children of the holocaust

12. Questions and Comments
“ I live in crazy times.” - Anne Frank