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Record your notes on the Kindertransport here. You may print this and answer by hand as you go, or save this document to your H drive and enter your answers on the computer. Be sure to save several times as you work.

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Step One: Read the Introduction

Answer this question from the Opening Page: Introduction

1. What is the Kindertransport?

Step Two: Go to this website: http://www.kindertransport.org/history.htm At this website, begin first with the Introduction link which begins “KINDERTRANSPORT AND KTA HISTORY.” Answer questions 2-4 from the information on this page.

2. What were the circumstances of the first Kindertransport?

3. When did the Kindertransport officially end? Why did it end?

from “1933-38 in the Reich”: 4. Were other countries aware of the suffering of the Jews in Europe? How do you know?

from “Rising to the Moment”: 5. According to the text, what was unique about the Kindertransport?

from “Life in Britain”: 6. Was a sponsor in Great Britain required before a child could participate in the Kindertransport? How do you know? 7. Once they arrived in Great Britain, where did the children go? Be specific.

Step Three: Complete the following tasks using http://www2.warnerbros.com/intothearmsofstrangers/

Go to the link labeled “The Kinder.”

Read the short interviews there. [Note: kind means child.]

Choose one kind, one foster mother, and one parent, and complete the response chart below for each of them. List the name, then a quote that caught your interest; write your response to each quote in the right column. Use the tab to get from one column to the other. Name / Quote Response example: I wonder if Lorraine really did see her parents, but Lorraine Allard, kind something tells me she never did. I’ve learned that “I remember V.E. Day very clearly….I just very few children ever saw their parents again. To thought, well, this is it, I’m going to see my parents go from the joy of V.E. Day to the sorrow of lost next week.” parents… Step Four: Examine the photographs from the Kindertransport at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum website: http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/media_ph.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005260&MediaId=576

Choose one of the photographs.

Write the title of the photograph you chose here:

Complete the following observation and inference chart. Use your eyes and list everything you SEE. Remember that inference is based on what you think what you see means. Write a CEI paragraph after you have completed the chart. Please use at least three examples from the photograph as evidence for your claim, and remember that your interpretation connects your claim to your evidence.

Observation: What I see Inference: What I see means Write your CEI paragraph. Please use intro words and transition words: Based on what I see in this photograph…I know this because…Clearly, this shows…

Step Five: Now it’s time to start thinking about the characters you will invent for your diary entries. Remember you will write diary entries for a child, for a teenager in a home that fosters a Jewish child, and for a parent left behind.

Use the online atlas link http://maps.nationalgeographic.com/maps to choose a town for your kind, your foster family teenager, and your parent left behind. Write them here, including town and country: kind: teenager: parent:

Decide on names for each of your characters. Write their names beside the towns you have chosen for them.

Turn in your work by printing what you have entered on the computer, or by turning in what you have written.

Report directly to the library next class, when you will write your diary entries.