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

2. 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.

3. The Nazi regime also persecuted and killed millions of other people it considered politically, racially, or socially unfit.

4. The Allies’ victory ended World War II, but Nazi Germany and its collaborators had left millions dead and countless lives shattered.

5. Your Assignments
Look up a child of the Holocaust that you have been assigned and will learn more about
Complete the notes organizer
Create a commemorative puzzle piece honoring this child
Write a well-developed informative paragraph on your child
Present puzzle piece and information about your child

6. RESEARCH
You will research your child fill out the graphic organizer before writing an informative well-developed paragraph.

7. Here is how to find your child:
*Type in Children of the Holocaust, The Museum of Tolerance on a Google search
*Find the Education Tab
*Click Teacher Resources
*Scroll down to find the Children of the Holocaust

8. COMMEMORATE
You will be creating a commemorative puzzle piece about your child. You will also write a well-developed formal paragraph.
You will present your puzzle piece/Information about your child to the class.
You must include the following:
Family Background
Life in the ghetto, camp or in hiding
Circumstances of death or release
Miscellaneous/Extra Info.

9. Create a Puzzle Piece PICTURE & NAME of your child
Commemorate a victim of the Holocaust by creating a puzzle piece in his or her honor.
PICTURE & NAME of your child
Information to remember about him/her
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 and the piece must be DECORATED.
Create something to be proud of. Try your best.

10. INGE AUERBACHER
The following slides show examples of research notes and a puzzle piece information for one child of the Holocaust.

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

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

13. 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

14. 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.

15. 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

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

17. Puzzle Piece Sample Layout
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 Theresienstadt ghetto
They emigrated to the United States in May 1946.
Wrote I Am a Star
Inge Auerbachber

18. Example of Informative paragraph
Inform:   Apollo 11 space mission.    
On July 16, 1969, the Apollo 11 spacecraft launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Its mission was to go where no human being had gone before—the moon! The crew consisted of Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, and Buzz Aldrin. The spacecraft landed on the moon in the Sea of Tranquility, a basaltic flood plain, on July 20, The moonwalk took place the following day. On July 21, 1969, at precisely 10:56 EDT, Commander Neil Armstrong emerged from the Lunar Module and took his famous first step onto the moon’s surface. He declared, “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” It was a monumental moment in human history!