Writer of the week 10th February

10th Feb 2023

 

Jayah in Year 6

for her non-chronological report about the Holocaust, written in History.                            

The Holocaust is the name given to the genocide of Jewish people.  The word genocide is made up of the Greek prefix 'genos', which means tribe or race.  The Holocaust began in April 1933 and ended in 1945.  In 1937, Adolf Hitler passed Arganisation policies, meaning Jewish people had to give up their businesses.                                                                                                                                                        

Anne Frank   

Annelise Marie Frank (also known as Anne Frank) was a famous Jewish girl whose family went into hiding in 1941.  She had a father called Otto Frank, a mother called Edith Frank and an older sister called Margot Betti Frank.  The Franks moved into a secret annexe concealed behind a movable bookcase, at 263 Prinsengract.  Anne and her family ended up staying in the secret annexe for around a year and a half.  On 4th August 1944, the secret annexe was raided by the SS Sargent Karl Josef Silberbauer, along with several other Dutch Nazis.  In 1945, Otto Frank survived the camps, but sadly his wife died of hunger in the same year along with Margot and Anne who died from contracting typhoid.  

How did discrimination begin?                                                                                                                                                                         

When Adolf Hitler came into power, he said everyone with blonde hair and blue eyes was German.  He discriminated Jews, disabled people, black people, homosexual men, political opponents and Romani people. 

Peter Lantos                                                                                                                                                                                                      

Peter Lantos is a famous man who survived the Holocaust alongside his mother.  His father sadly died in April 1944.  Peter left his home in Hungary, and went to a Bergen-Belsen camp when he was aged 5.  When him and his mother returned home, they found out that twenty one members of their family had died including: Peter's father, grandma, cousin and auntie.  Peter Lantos has written a book called The Boy who didn't want to die.  It tells the reader about Peter's journey and what happened during this terrible time.                                                 

Holocaust Memorial Day                                                                                                                                                                                        

Each year across the UK, thousands of people came together to learn and teach about the past, and strive together to make a better future for others.  Even though learning about the Holocaust can be upsetting, it can also and help us to see why its so important to challenge hateful ideas so that the same things will never happen again.