Ellie P, B Block

A LIFE IN THE HOLOCAUST

April 1933-1945

These children were taken by Nazi solders because there jewish religion was the lowest rank on Hitlers religious ranking

ELLIE PIERSON

FEATURED TOPICS •CONCENTARTION CAMPS

Block B

•ESCAPE FROM FRANCE •THE ARYAN RACE

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ISSUE #1

HOLOCAUST April 1933-1945

Holocaust: At the time of 1933-1945, It lasted from the time when Adolf Hitler was chancellor of Germany to the end of the war in Europe

These were children that were taken from there towns because they fit curtain requirements for the aryan race, Hitler was obsessed with this idea of the perfect german race., even he didn’t fit these requirements.

THE DISASTERS OF THE HOLOCAUST Hol•o•caust: A distraction or slaughter on a mass scale, especially caused by fire and nuclear bombs What was the Holocaust?

deaths such as exhaustion, starvation, exposer, and the medical experiments Have you ever wondered what the Holocaust being performed

by Nazi doctors. The was and why Hitler was motivated to inflict pain onto the lives of millions of Europeans? medical experiments held prisoners The Holocaust of 1939–1943 was a horrible against their will and the people often event in Europe's history when Nazi died, these experiments were used for Germany killed millions of Jewish people and testing vaccines and german air force other non-Christians to create what Hitler produces. thought was a “pure” or supreme race. This resulted in the creation of concentration The killing centers were established camps, many people escaping Germany, and to mass murder Jews. Another way to the stealing of Aryan children. increase killing efficiency at these centers were gas chambers. These rooms were What was a concentration camp? filled with poisoned gas to kill those Concentration Camps were established inside, more then 6,000 jews were

by German authorities all over Germany gassed a day. This way its more to handle the 20,000 people getting impersonal or the perpetrators when they arrested. These camps had a range of kill them. purposes including labor camps and killing centers, and often were in horrible conditions. These conditions caused

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Adolf Hitler: Born: April 20, 1889 Died: April 30, 1945 Austrian-born german politician, Führer and chancellor of Germany from 1934-1945

Why were people escaping from Germany and France?

Germany invaded france in 1942, many French (including jews) did not want his leader ship and tried to rebel against the Nazis to fight for there rights in religion and beliefs. Some of thee rebellions did work, but others did not and soon after that those people went into hiding. Hitler did not like all the rebellion and wanted to give the french “pay back” and stop adults from forming rebellion. He started killing children such as jews so it would affect and have long term damage on the french families and adults he despised. They sent these children to extermination camps so the only was to live was escaping. After these incidents, jews didn’t feel safe under nazi control, they needed to leave.

Many of these people would go to refugee camps to get away from the country and hitlers power. These camps were a save place for jews to go if the country excepted them. Sadly after the wars began escaping to these “safe havens” were much harder to get to. Fewer countries were excepting jewish refuges and wartime created difficulties for those trying to escape.

Also many people stopped helping these people cross the borders because helping them was a huge personal risk to themselves and there family. Escaping Nazis were hard but most jews needed to in order for survival.

THE ESCAPE

What is the Aryan race?

The Aryan race was a racial grouping of people of European and western Asian heritage.

-The Escape ActThese jews were violently attacked by these nazi solders, hitler felt as if jews were on the bottom of the religious ranking, He would to anything to hurt and punished this race such as arrested (Top picture), killed, and hurt so bad needed to escape the country.(bottom picture, refugee camps.)

This is a girl from the Aryan race, chosen for the hitler youth

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A LETTER TO HITLER Dear Hitler, I am Milada of Czechoslovakia or I WAS Milada of Czechoslovakia, now I am Eva, an un-known German girl of the Hitler youth. I was taken out of my town, away from my own family because of the color my hair or how tall I am. I could have been with my only brother or my grandmother those last few months of our lives, if it weren't for your idea of a “supreme race”. Well, are you happy now? Now that you’ve ruined my family’s life and to create a girl who always felt like she could have changed what happened? When I was at that camp you sent me to, people tried to make me forget about my family, but I wouldn't let go of them. You will never make me forget no matter how many bombs you through my way or how many camps I go to or how many german families I have I will still feel all alone inside because there is no one there to love me and give me comfort when you are there leader. You Hitler, are an evil man who will kill thousands until you feel pleasure. One day this war will be over and you will be stopped. No more families will be hurt the way it did for me.

You wont get away with this, Milada

Hitler claimed the Aryan race was the master race or supreme to all others. Because of these ideas the nazis had, they wanted to maintain this race through eugenics programs. Hitler took thousands of polish children out of there town to find who was part of this race. This children were brought on special trains and taken to Racial tests, after that they get looked at or examined by nazi doctors. These examinations were when doctors looked them over, measured them and rated them. These children felt like they were animals being sold. After these children were chosen nazis brought them to a Hitler youth camp. These camps trained them to be young german child by learning the german language and forget about there

Dear Eva, I, Hitler the chancellor of Germany, am ashamed that one of my own Aryan children is disobeying my orders, you should be welcome that I took you away from your Czech family, Germany is the only country that you belong in. You should be happy I gave you to those nice families and should have obey them as well. You are a disgrace to the Hitler youth and I will kill and hurt anyone who I feel in un natural to the country. A little girl like yourself should not be saying such words to the Führer. You are no Aryan girl to me, or Germany. Your family was hurt but It was the right thing to to if they raised you. I will win this war and when I do my solders with come for you and your mother. And with that I say “hail Hitler!” and do not disobey me again or there will be consequences.

past life and family. These soldiers “Germanized” these children so they can be sold to a german family.

And finally...

The Holocaust was a terrible time, there were concentration camps, racial groupings, and mass murders. After world war two, Adolf Hitler did died. People were taken out of concentration camps and brought back to there families if they survived. The war was over and racial groupings were over, Hitler was wrong.

The Examinations These examinations took place when the nazi doctors brought these children in separate rooms away from there family and measured curtain body parts like noise and ears, if they meet the requirements then they sen them on trains.

Hitler and his soldiers.

From your leader, Adolf Hitler

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Word

Part of Speech (noun, verb, adj)

Definition (in context with the story)

Sentence from book & Page #

How is this w meaningful t time period of book? Expla

1. Air raids

Noun

an attack in which bombs are dropped from aircraft onto a ground target

“This, her voice whimpers, ‘is for

Noun

Race of people who have blue eyes, blonde hair, meet certain requirements

“Fraulein Haugen explained the certain things about us, such as our blonde hair and light colored eyes, made us a part of the Aryan race” pg 59

Hitler thought of t people as ‘the pe kind’ so he took t and made them i german people w believed in him.

noun

capital of Germany, high population

“We drove through berlin, it seemed like a different world…. some of the building we passed had been damaged by bombs” Pg. 103

THis shows that in this time had a war going on it w safe for people.

Noun

Language of Czechoslovakia

“It was not Czech, it didnt sound German, Perhaps they were from

Many children co communicate or

the air raids” pg 115

People were atta all over germany time

2. Aryan Race

3. Berlin

4. Czech

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Poland” pg 40

understand one anothe when brought together many languages

“We drove for hours across the countryside if Czechoslovakia” Pg. 37

This is the a state that Aryan Children pass through in some way to Aryan Camps

5. Czechoslovakia

noun

state in Central Europe

6. F​ührer

noun

a ruthless, tyrannical “I apologize to the F​ührer and to the family” leader.

noun

town in germany

noun

refers to the spread “Children were but through germanization until brought to of the German centers…” Witness to war language, people and culture or policies which may have introduced these changes.

These leaders were very strict to children and adults (Leader is Hitler)

7. F​ürstenberg

“... I understand you are living This is a town then very close to us in F​ürstenberg” where everyone Pg 119 strongly obeid Hitler

8. Germanization

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This is how the aryan children became german, through these changes

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9. Hitler

noun

Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-­born German politician who was the leader of the Nazi Party. He was chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945 and Führer of Nazi Germany from 1934 to 1945

“.. I had seen the victory parade He was the main rea the Nazis held for hitler” Pg 12 why there was a holocaust, and why these religions were treated differently.

Noun

German Language;; Mother

“thank you Mutter.” Pg 143

This is how children respond or refer to t parent

noun

German soldiers of Hitler

“.. I had seen the victory parade the Nazis held for hitler. The soldiers had marched by fiercely wearing tall black boots and black swastikas on their uniforms”. Pg 13

These people were symbols to the peop that Hitler was here he will hurt you.

noun

German Language No

“Nien, go to your room!” Pg 134 This is the language that germans speak one another in.

noun

sub-­​races ​into which some late 19th to mid 20th century anthropologists divided

“The aryan race is the master race (identical as nordic race)...” WIkipedia

10. Mutter

11. Nazis

12. Nein

13. Nordic Race

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This is the race that nazis and Hitler wan to maintain

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Holocaus

the Caucasian ​race​.

14. perpetrators

noun

A ​perpetrator​ is someone who has committed a crime

“to increase killing efficiency and to make the process more impersonal for the perpetrators” N ​ azi camps​ W ​ ebsite

These were the who were in the concentration ca and treated badl

noun

of or relating to Poland, its inhabitants, or their language.

“Heidi had spoken in Polish”

At these camps Aryan children if not speak in ger you were a disgr

noun

Prague is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic

“I've never been this far away from my village than Prague” Pg. 38

Capital which pe travel through A (highly populated

noun

City in poland

“​Puschkau, Poland 1943​” pg.71 This is a city tha center for Aryan girls

Noun

a fixed amount of a commodity officially allowed to each person during a time of shortage, as in wartime.

“Mama, Where did you get this sugar?’ I asked. “Terezie's mother gave me some of her rations,” Pg 6

15.​ ​Polish

16. ​ ​Prague

17. Puschkau

18. Rations

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This shows that can’t even bake types of goods o people need to c together

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19. Smokestacks

noun

a chimney or funnel for discharging smoke from a locomotive, ship, factory, etc. and helping to induce a draft.

“Prisoners, well prisoners die. and there isn’t room to bury them, so the smoke stacks-­.”

At concentration camps, people would get burned and it would smell all over town from those people

Noun

German Language;; Father

“Vater thinks I don't know. He think I'm stupid.” pg. 144

This is how children respond or refer to their parent

20. Vater

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