Heroes of the Holocaust and Underground Railroad

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Heroes of the Holocaust and Underground Railroad
Heroes of the Holocaust and the Underground
Railroad

• By Joe, Paul, and Mike
• Grade 8

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What Makes a Hero

• A hero is a person who fights for a better cause
• Harriet Tubman was a great example of a hero .
  She fought for what was right.

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The Holocaust

• The Holocaust is the worst thing that has
  happened to our world in our thoughts.
• So many people died for no reason.
• They were Jews, gypsies, and political enemies of
  the Nazis.

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The History of the Holocaust.

• The Holocaust was one of the worst events in the
  History of the world over six million Jews died
  in the Holocaust

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Anne Frank A Holocaust Hero

• Anne Frank was a Holocaust Hero
• She taught people what it was like to live as a
  Jew in the 1930s and 1940s by writing her
  experiences in her diary.

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Chanukah

• Celebrates the miracle of light
• Chanukah is celebrated by Jewish families all
  over the world
• Anne Franks family celebrated Chanukah in the
  play The Diary of Anne Frank

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Survivors of the Holocaust.

• My story is about a guy named Shep Zitler. This
  man survived the Holocaust but he went through
  hell before he got out of the Concentration
  Camps. His private hell began six months before
  the war began. The Germans came to Poland. And
  that is when they got Shep.

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Dr. Jan Karski

• Dr. Jan Karski - was the contact between Polish
  resistance and the Polish Govt in exile.
• was smuggled into Warsaw ghetto to hear what was
  occurring there.
• Asked to tell the story to the rest of the world,
  reported on experience to other world leaders,
  including President Roosevelt. To us he was a
  hero.

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Stories From the Holocaust

• Eva Gellar is a survivor of the Holocaust
• She jumped off of a death train to escape which
  was a very brave thing to do.

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Comparing Heros

• This man tried to stop Hitler and his evil
  doings. But in the long run his family was
  murdered in 1945.
• Martin was a hero who survived. He founded a
  church which was named the Confessing Church.

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The Concentration Camps

• Concentration Camps were where Hitler stored Jews
  until he killed them
• There was over 500 concentration camps in Europe
  alone
• There was over 300 in the rest of the world
  during the Holocaust

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Auschwitz

• In Auschwitz over 1.6 million Jews were killed
• Over 5000 Non-Jews were also killed

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Mauthausen

• Was a concentration camp
• Used the worse tactics to kill Jewish people.
• There was a total of 40,000 of the 119,000
  people who died between 1938- 1945.

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Death Toll in the Camps

• In all the years of the Holocaust over 6 million
  Jews died
• Five thousand people who helped Jews were also
  killed

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The Black Holocaust

• Blacks endured terrible hardships and death
  during the Black Holocaust Slavery.
• Abolitionist groups helped the slaves escape to
  the North using escape routes called the
  Underground Railroad.
• Slaves and rescuers risked death using the
  Underground Railroad.

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Underground Railroad

• The Underground Railroad was many escape routes
  for slaves
• It got its name from a slave owner who said that
  slaves would just disappear as if they went
  underground

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Slaves of the Underground Railroad

• Throughout all of the 1700 and 1800s slavery was
  a problem that more than fifty percent of African
  Americans faced

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Conductor of the Underground Railroad

• A conductor of the Underground Railroad was
  called an abolitionist
• The most well known African American
  abolitionists were Harriet Tubman and Fredrick
  Douglas

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Survivors of Slavery

• Thousands of slaves survived the trip on the
  Underground Railroad
• The picture on the right is a picture of slaves
  that made it to Canada

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Heroism Today

• Heroes can be found anywhere
• Heroes can rise up out of no where when people
  need them.
• Martin Luther King was an ordinary preacher who
  became a hero of the Civil Rights Movement.

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What We learned About Heroes

• Throughout history people reacted to some
  conflict and became Heroes. Meip and Mr. Franks
  other workers helped the Frank family for two
  years with risk to their own lives.
• Abolitionists at risk to themselves opened their
  homes to slaves.
• Heroic stories pop up in the news every day. Our
  world has always had heroes.

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Credits

• www.yahoo.com/
• www.askjeeves.com
• www.historychannel.com
• www.nationalgeographic.com
• www.google.com