1. The Innocent Victims of Prejudice and Genocide
Children of the Holocaust: Puzzle Piece Research Activity …making text-to-self connections
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. This genocide is now known as the Holocaust.

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 Assignment:
Look up a child of the Holocaust that you have been assigned and will learn more about
Write Cornell Notes with a well written summary on your child.
Create a commemorative puzzle piece honoring this child.
Present puzzle piece and information about your child.

6. RESEARCH
You will research your child and create Cornell Note’s with a summary on your child.

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. Cornell Note Taking Form
Child’s Name:
Date of Birth, Place of Birth
Website Title:
Museum of Tolerance
Family Background
Life in the ghetto, camp or in hiding
Circumstances of death or release
Miscellaneous/Extra Info.
Summary
*This would be a good place to use quote sandwiches.

9. COMMEMORATE
You will be creating a commemorative puzzle piece about your child.
You will present your puzzle piece to the class.

10. Create a Puzzle Piece
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.

11. 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