Children of the Holocaust

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Children of the Holocaust

• A web quest
• By Renee Hulm

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• The purpose of this web quest is to give students
  a better understanding of what it would have been
  like to been in one of the concentration camps.
  The goal of this web quest is to educate people
  so that a tragedy like the Holocaust never
  happens again.

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Introduction Last night you had a dream and in
your dream you heard the voice of a child.
Please remember me and my family. I do not want
to be forgotten or be a number. Learn from my
horrible experience and make sure that the
horrible event never repeats itself, said the
child.
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• You wake up immediately in a cold sweat, the
  voice seemed so real almost like the child was in
  your bedroom. Earlier that week your teacher had
  mentioned how your class would soon be studying
  the Holocaust. You now believe that the voice
  you heard in your dream was the voice of a child
  from the Holocaust.

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• The next day at school your teacher announces
  that today your class is going to begin studying
  the Holocaust. After your dream last night you
  are focused on finding out as much about the
  Holocaust as you can. Whether or not it was an
  actual voice you heard, you are excited to learn
  about the children who lived through the
  Holocaust.

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Your tasks are as follows

• Read one of the following books.
• Hidden Children of the Holocaust
• So Young to Die
• Behind the Bedroom Wall
• Survivors True Stories of Children in the
  Holocaust

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• You will keep a daily journal expressing your
  opinions about the book you select. You need to
  note how you would have felt to have been treated
  like the Jews were and how it would have felt to
  been a prison guard at the concentration camps.
  You must place yourself in that setting and
  imagine what these people went through and
  experienced.

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• You will visit the site o Children of the
  Holocaust and read at least 3 of the biographies.
  From those 3 biographies you will select one
  child you are going to adopt to remember. You
  need to take notes about that child on index
  cards or use the note taking form. Using your
  notes you will create an 8 ½ x 11 memory tile
  that will inform other people about the child.
  You will also write a poem about your child or as
  if you were that child and your experiences.
  Make sure to type this poem on a word processing
  program.

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• You will visit a rescuers site and read about
  three different people or groups that assisted
  the Jews. Select a rescuer you would like to
  honor and take notes on your rescuer on index
  cards or on note taking form. Create a plaque
  which honors your rescuer. Write poem about you
  rescuer and then type it on a word processing
  program.

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In order to show others all the important
information you have learned from doing this web
quest you will need to make a power point
presentation. Create a power point presentation
with the following requirements.

• Title slide (title of presentation an presenter
  names)
• 2-3 slides about your child (you may cut and
  paste the picture of child from the website
• 2-3 slides about your rescuer
• At least one of your poems
• A resource page citing your references

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• Please set your presentation to automatic, and
  make sure each slide has enough time for you to
  watch. Additional slides may be added after the
  requirements have been completed. Please
  remember the tone of the subjects that we are
  learning about and consider that in your
  selection of power point graphics.

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• Process
• The students will begin this web quest by
  selecting a book from list. The students will
  keep a daily journal which will document any
  thoughts they have about their book and people
  that are in the story. The students will be
  asked to put themselves in some of the characters
  places and decide what decisions they would have
  made. The journal entrees the students make
  should be daily and approximately ½ page in
  length.

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• The students will also have to go to certain
  websites and research the biographies or children
  and rescuers. After they have researched both
  they will select 3 biographies from each group
  and create poems and a memory tile for the child
  they adopt and a plaque for the rescuer.

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• As a closing activity to this web quest the
  students will be asked to create a power point
  presentation. The goal of this activity is to
  educate other people about the importance of
  learning from this tragedy in history. Each
  power point will be assessed by using the rubrics
  attached.

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• Resources
• Internet sites
• Children of the holocaust
• Rescuers of Jews
• Audio Clips and Instructional aids
• Music and Artwork
• Facts Photographs of the Holocaust

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• Books
• Hidden Children of the Holocaust
• by Stacy Cretzmeyer
• So Young to Die
• by Candice F. Ransom
• Behind the Bedroom Wall
• by Laura E. Williams
• Survivors True Stories of Children in the
  Holocaust
• by Allan Gullo Mara Boysan

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• Additional Resources
• Movies
• Witnesses to the Holocaust
• Images Before My Eyes
• Life is Beautiful
• We Were Marked with a Big A
• More Than Broken Glass Memories of Kristallnacht
• Persecuted and Forgotten

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Poetry

• We Will Never Forget Auschwitz
• by Alexander Kimel
• The Ghetto Prayer
• by Janusz Korczak
• Aftermath
• by Evelyn Roman
• Homeland
• by Lois E. Olena
• The Archivist
• by Lois E. Olena

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• Music
• I Shall Wait for your Return
• Echoes of Vilna Songs of Remembrance from the
  Ghettos
• Songs of the Concentration Camps from the
  Repertoire of Emma Schaver
• Rise Up and Fight! Songs of the Jewish Partisans
• Terezin The Music 1941-44

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Evaluation

• For each task the student is suppose to complete
  there is a rubric or checklist that will be used
  to assess the students work.

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The rubrics for the power point presentation and
students class participation are enclosed in the
web quest. Each area gives a well-detailed
summary of what the students need to do to meet
the criteria addressed. The power point
presentation is worth a possible 20
points

• 2. Journals will be evaluated using the
  following criteria, the journals are worth 20
  points.
• Open-ended journal responses
• Quality of thinking revealed in the journal
  entrees
• Quality of details about various people in the
  book the student read

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• The memory tiles and rescuers plaque will be
  evaluated using the checklists enclosed in the
  packets. Each one is worth 15 points.
• Group participation throughout this project is
  evaluated using a rubric that is attached in the
  handout. Group participation is worth a possible
  20 points.
• The total web quest is worth a possible 90
  points! Good luck

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• Conclusion
• Now that you have learned in depth about two
  special people. Two people who were brave one
  who faced adversities beyond their control and
  one who was brave to stand up for someone else
  despite the danger they faced.

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I hope that through your studies of the rescuers
you have learned that when you see wrong being
done to others you wont sit by idly.
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• The Holocaust is more than a mistake, yet in life
  we learn from our mistakes. If we dont study
  and remember the Holocaust we may repeat the same
  tragedies in history.

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• I hope that you will keep what you learn through
  this web quest alive in your heart so that they
  will always be remembered!

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The End