27 th January
Holocaust Remembrance Day or Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD) is an international memorial day on 27th January commemorating the tragedy of the Holocaust that occurred during the Second World War.
What is it?
WHAT DO WE REMEMBER?
It commemorates the genocide of 6 million Jews and 11 million others, by the Nazi regime and its collaborators.
WHEN DID ALL START?
It was designated by the United Nations on 1st November 2005
WHY THIS DATE?
On 27thJanuary 1945, Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest Nazi concentration and death camp, was liberated by the Red Army.
WHAT IS HOLOCAUST?
The Holocaust, sometimes called The Shoah, was when Nazi Germany killed people in a planned and forced way during World War II. About six million Jews were killed, as well as five million of others that the Nazis said were bad (e.g., gypsies, homosexuals, communists, people who were not white, people with disabilities, Jehovah's Witnesses, ecc). These people were rounded up, put in ghettos, forced to work in concentration camps and then killed in big gas chambers.
WHO ARE THE RIGHTEOUS AMONG THE NATIONS?
Righteous Among the Nations is an award given by Israel to people who helped Jewish men and women survive the Holocaust. It has been given to Oskar Schindler, Giorgio Perlasca, Sir Nicholas Winton and many others for helping the innocent victims of the Holocaust. The Righteous Among the Nations Memorial Path is located in the Yad Vashem museum in Jerusalem.
Sir Nicholas Winton
One of the children’s passport
Sir Nicholas Winton was a 29-year-old stockbroker who in 1939 organized trains out of Prague to secure the safe passage of 669 Jewish children from Czechoslovakia to England at the beginning of World War II. The evacuees, later known as "Winton's Children," knew little about him until the 1980s, when his work finally came to light. He was knighted in 2003 and died on July 1, 2015, at the age of 106.
Statue at Prague main railway station,
In March Hitler invaded the rest of Chechoslovakia. That year eight large groups of children(669 in total) left Prague.Most of them were Jewish and seven groups left by train. It was a long journey. The trains travelled from Chechoslovakia through Germany, and then to Holland.Next the children travelled by boat to England. On September 3rd 1939 there was a eighth train at Prague station. It was ready to take children to England.Unfortunately, it never left Prague.That day the Second world war started. The Germans closed the borders. Tragically the train ,and the children on it, disappeared.For the rest of his life Winton was sorry that the train didn't leave one day earlier.
In 1938, a 29-year man called Nicholas Winton was living and working in London . One day he received a phone call from a friend in Prague, Czechoslovakia. Winton's friend worked for the British embassy and he was helping to organise refugee camps for many families of Czechoslovakia. These families were in danger because they were Jewish. Germany occupied part of Chechoslovakia and his friend knew it could occupy the rest of the country. Germany's leader Adolph Hitler hated Jews. Winton came from a Jewish family himself. He decided to go to Prague. He wanted to help the families in Chechoslovakia before it was too late.There were a lot of children in the refugees camps, and he decided to organise special trains to take them to Britain, with the help of the British embassy.Winton returned to London and sterted to raise money for their journey. He also had to find families to look after for the children.
The 669 children started a new life in Britain. They lived with British families. In Chechoslovakia Hitler sent Jews to concentration camps. Most of the families of Winton's families died. For years Winton never talked about his work. He didn't even tell to his wife!50 years later, in 1988, his wife found documents,letters, photos and Winton finally told his story.
Author's Name
A surprise for Sir Winton
thanks for your attention!
TEACHER BML
Sir Nicholas Winton
maria letizia Benedetti
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27 th January
Holocaust Remembrance Day or Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD) is an international memorial day on 27th January commemorating the tragedy of the Holocaust that occurred during the Second World War.
What is it?
WHAT DO WE REMEMBER?
It commemorates the genocide of 6 million Jews and 11 million others, by the Nazi regime and its collaborators.
WHEN DID ALL START?
It was designated by the United Nations on 1st November 2005
WHY THIS DATE?
On 27thJanuary 1945, Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest Nazi concentration and death camp, was liberated by the Red Army.
WHAT IS HOLOCAUST?
The Holocaust, sometimes called The Shoah, was when Nazi Germany killed people in a planned and forced way during World War II. About six million Jews were killed, as well as five million of others that the Nazis said were bad (e.g., gypsies, homosexuals, communists, people who were not white, people with disabilities, Jehovah's Witnesses, ecc). These people were rounded up, put in ghettos, forced to work in concentration camps and then killed in big gas chambers.
WHO ARE THE RIGHTEOUS AMONG THE NATIONS?
Righteous Among the Nations is an award given by Israel to people who helped Jewish men and women survive the Holocaust. It has been given to Oskar Schindler, Giorgio Perlasca, Sir Nicholas Winton and many others for helping the innocent victims of the Holocaust. The Righteous Among the Nations Memorial Path is located in the Yad Vashem museum in Jerusalem.
Sir Nicholas Winton
One of the children’s passport
Sir Nicholas Winton was a 29-year-old stockbroker who in 1939 organized trains out of Prague to secure the safe passage of 669 Jewish children from Czechoslovakia to England at the beginning of World War II. The evacuees, later known as "Winton's Children," knew little about him until the 1980s, when his work finally came to light. He was knighted in 2003 and died on July 1, 2015, at the age of 106.
Statue at Prague main railway station,
In March Hitler invaded the rest of Chechoslovakia. That year eight large groups of children(669 in total) left Prague.Most of them were Jewish and seven groups left by train. It was a long journey. The trains travelled from Chechoslovakia through Germany, and then to Holland.Next the children travelled by boat to England. On September 3rd 1939 there was a eighth train at Prague station. It was ready to take children to England.Unfortunately, it never left Prague.That day the Second world war started. The Germans closed the borders. Tragically the train ,and the children on it, disappeared.For the rest of his life Winton was sorry that the train didn't leave one day earlier.
In 1938, a 29-year man called Nicholas Winton was living and working in London . One day he received a phone call from a friend in Prague, Czechoslovakia. Winton's friend worked for the British embassy and he was helping to organise refugee camps for many families of Czechoslovakia. These families were in danger because they were Jewish. Germany occupied part of Chechoslovakia and his friend knew it could occupy the rest of the country. Germany's leader Adolph Hitler hated Jews. Winton came from a Jewish family himself. He decided to go to Prague. He wanted to help the families in Chechoslovakia before it was too late.There were a lot of children in the refugees camps, and he decided to organise special trains to take them to Britain, with the help of the British embassy.Winton returned to London and sterted to raise money for their journey. He also had to find families to look after for the children.
The 669 children started a new life in Britain. They lived with British families. In Chechoslovakia Hitler sent Jews to concentration camps. Most of the families of Winton's families died. For years Winton never talked about his work. He didn't even tell to his wife!50 years later, in 1988, his wife found documents,letters, photos and Winton finally told his story.
Author's Name
A surprise for Sir Winton
thanks for your attention!
TEACHER BML