Supplemental Assets – Lesson 10

The following resources are from the archives at and can be used to supplement Lesson 10, The Children, in Echoes and Reflections.

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 http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/resources/names/supporters.asp, 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

Key Words

• Antisemitism • Auschwitz • Genocide • Ghetto • National Socialism • Treblinka •

Photographs

• Kovna, Lithuania, Two Children, Aged Two and Five, with Jewish Badges in the Ghetto • Birkenau, , May 1944, Women and children on their way to gas chamber no. 4. • 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, , A Jewish Woman Sitting with Her Children Before Their Execution • Children Selling Cigarettes in the , Poland • Krakow, Poland, 1941, Adam Wnuczek at the Age of 12, with Two Other Boys in the Ghetto

Documents

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

Artifacts

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

Online Exhibitions

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

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