<< Lesson 9

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In this lesson, you learn about the effects of the Holocaust on  children and also study post-Holocaust genocides. You also learn about Janusz Korczak. For a page of testimony for Janusz Korczak, click here.

For an additional photograph of Janusz Korczak, click here.

In this lesson you meet Vladka Meed.
To learn about the fate of Vladka's family members who perished in the Holocaust, click on the pages of testimony identified with .

In this lesson you meet Jan Karski. For more information about him, click here.

Warsaw, Poland, Children Sitting on the Pavement Soliciting Alms
Warsaw, Poland, September 19, 1941, A Child Lying on the Pavement in the Ghetto
Nowy Sacz, Poland, A Boy Selling Newspapers in the Ghetto
Warsaw, Poland, Girls Eating in a Soup Kitchen
Anne Frank, The Netherlands
Lubny, Ukraine, A Jewish Woman Sitting with Her Children Before Their Execution
Children Selling Cigarettes in the Warsaw Ghetto, Poland
Krakow, Poland, 1941, Adam Wnuczek at the Age of 12, with Two Other Boys in the Ghetto

Rumkowski's Address at the Time of the Deportation of the Children from the Lodz Ghetto, September 4, 1942

“No Child’s Play”
Photographs from the Warsaw Ghetto
The Auschwitz Album

From the Diary of Stanislaw Adler on the Beggar-Children of the Warsaw Ghetto
From the Train to Auschwitz - Hanna Goldberg's Last Letters
From the Diary of Josef Zelkowicz on the Hardships for Children in the Lodz Ghetto