Night by Elie Wiesel
English Research Project
Term 2
By Mark Martin
12/23/11
Children of the Holocaust
One and a half million Jewish
children were murdered by the
Germans and their collaborators
during the Holocaust.
Lost Children of the Holocaust
• Ruth Moses age 6
• Born 1935 in Germany
• Her family was forced to live in a Ghetto in
Latvia
• Ghetto residents were latter gassed in a
mobile gas chamber, shot or sent to labor
camps
• Her Death is unknown
Lost Children of the Holocaust
• Nissim Mordehay
• Born January 8, 1932 in Bulgaria
• Nine years old when Bulgaria allied itself with
Germany
• The Jews of Old Bulgaria were saved due to the
courageous defiance of the King of Bulgaria and
his people.
• He lived in a country that was able to protect its
Jewish citizens
• Saved
Lost Children of the Holocaust
• Greti Skala
• Born August 10,1935 in Czechoslovakia
• She and her mother were liberated from
Bergan - Belsen
• At age 9 died of typhus, shortly after being
sent free
Lost Children of the Holocaust
• Victor Rona
• Born December 26, 1928 in Rumania
• Strong and healthy at age 15 years old he was
forced into a labor camps
• From June 1944 till April 1945 he labored in 4
different labor camps in Germany
• Died after being set free at age 16 from an
untreated bayonet wound received in the
labor camp
Renowned Children of the Holocaust
• Anne Frank
• June 12, 1929 – Died age 15
• Born Frankfurt, Germany moved from Germany
to the Netherlands to avoid Nazi
• 2 years her family hid in hidden rooms in
Amsterdam
• Captured and sent to concentration camp
Bergen-Belsen
• Died of typhus with her sister Margot
• After the war her father found and published her
now famous diary
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Slama Miroslav
Born August 3, 1917 in Czechoslovakia
Death November 30, 2008
Prisoner in the Concentration Camp in Czech Republic
Professional ice hockey player for Czechoslovak the
national team
 Won a silver medal at the 1948 Winter Olympics
• Defected to Switzerland in December 1948 during an
ice hockey tournament
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Elie Wiesel
Born September 30,1928 in Romania
Prisoner at Auschwitz – Birkenau at age 15 ½
Prisoner ID# A-7713 was tattooed on his arm
Author of 57 book including Night
Parents and younger sister perished in
concentration camps
• Noble Peace Prize Winner
Hyperlink
• “How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single
moment before starting to improve the world.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVkc-0cI91o
Sources
• www.ltcpraha.ic.cz – slide 8
• www.graceproducts.- Children of the
holocaust
• http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peac
e/laureates/1986/wiesel-bio.html
• www.Wikipedia.com
• www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVkc-0cI91o
Questions and Comments
• “ I live in crazy times.” - Anne Frank