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The Children

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    Lesson 10: The Children

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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 .

Vladka MeedFamily tree


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


Jan Karski


Key Words Key Words

Antisemitism

National Socialism

Auschwitz

Treblinka 

Genocide

Warsaw

Ghetto
Photographs Photographs

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

Documents Documents

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

Artifacts Artifacts

A Doll from Terezin Dressed as a Ghetto Nurse, Made from a Stuffed Sock

Online Exhibitions Online Exhibitions

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

Diaries and Letters Diaries and Letters

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

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