PowerPoint presentation on the Holocaust

2. The holocaust was a time in history that
changed peoples lives. During the 1930‟s & 1940‟s
a man named Adolf Hitler took control of many
European countries. Hitler thought if he didn‟t
think someone was the way he wanted them to
be, then they had no reason to live. Hitler killed
over 6,000,ooo Jews.
Picture of Adolf Hitler

3.  Over 3,000,000 Jews lived in Poland. Most
Jews settled into cities & towns and were
merchants, artisans and middlemen.
 In Germany, most Jews ( over half-million)
lived middle class lives, most often in larger
cities.

4.  Before the holocaust came everyone was
happy with their lives. Kids ran around
playing with their friends. The children went
to public school. Women stayed at home did
chores and cooked dinner. Everyone went
out on the weekends and had fun. Jews
went to the synagogue on Shabbat (Sabbath).
 Most men had jobs and were usually the only
one who sustained the family but lost them
along the way

5.  Kristallnacht or “the night of broken glass,”
was the beginning of the holocaust.
 Many Jewish-owned stores, homes,
synagogues, and community centers were
destroyed and devastated.
 They also ruined Jewish schools, hospitals,
cemeteries & policemen and fire brigades just
stood there doing nothing to help.

6.  “Soon as you put the star of David on, you
were not you, you were someone else. We
were put out to be displayed. Why? Because
we were Jews, that it . We Had a different
religion, to be ridiculed. You were stripped
of any dignity.” (35)
-Clara Grossman, holocaust survivor

7.  Ghettos were where all the Jews came. The
others wanted to be sure that all the Jews
were together in the worst part of the city,
the slums
 Days when soldiers came in and ordered
people to gather were the worst days
because that was usually when people were
deported to concentration camps and labor
camps. Most of the people that went to
those camps worked 12 or more hours a day.

8.  “I was liberated on the march. They came
from behind as we were marching on the
highway. I turned around and I saw those big
tanks and I said: “ Those are not German
tanks. They are American tanks.” They
started throwing out boxes of cigarettes,
and chocolate. The German guards ran into
the woods.” (42) - Joseph Greenbaum, survivor

9.  When the war ended in Europe, The world
began to learn about the degree of the
Holocaust. In Poland, more than 3,000,000 Jews
were executed- that was about 95 percent of
the prewar Jewish population of that country.
 In Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Lithuania and many
other East European countries, more than
three –quarters of the prewar community was
obliviated. Six million Jews perished, that‟s
almost two-thirds of Europe‟s Jews.

10.  It took a while for everyone to get back to
normal. Just imagine living through the
holocaust but your family is gone and you
have no one. How would you feel?
 People tried hard they got out of Europe
and came to America for a new life and to
start all over.

11.  When the survivors saw the Statue of
Liberty they were overjoyed and thought is
was a dream because they now knew that no
one else can hurt them.
Statue of
Liberty.
The sight
of relief
to
Holocaust
survivors.

12.  Most people who came to America didn‟t
know English but they knew German or
Yiddish or another language that the
Americans didn‟t know.
 Most of the immigrants took language or got
an English dictionary or read the newspaper
but they eventually learned and they act like
regular people.

13. After Sonia Borowik spent 4 ½ years in two labor camps
and three concentration camps she returned to her
hometown of Vilna, Poland- currently Vilnius, Lithuania- in
December 1945. She barley remembered her own name but
she recognized the balcony hanging from her family‟s bombed
apartment at 57 Zavalnia.
The family-maid who once offered to hide Sonia‟s little
blond brother, Abrusha refused to return anything she had
taken from the family‟s apartment “I‟m married to a Russian
soldier,” she said,” and he hates the Jews.
Sonia and Vera were the only ones who survivor out of
their entire family. 25 percent of Vilna, Poland‟s 200,000 pre
war population were Jewish. Sonia went to a private day
school where unlike her other friends who attended public
schools, she escaped daily harassment. She was not allowed
to sit in the front of her opera or use sidewalk, but, she says,
“I never questioned it.” (90)

14. Sonia never really talked about the Holocaust until her son wrote a
paper on it, and the teacher asked if he could get a survivor to talk to
the class. He asked his mother. Sonia's been talking ever since. She tells
student‟s “Don‟t watch my face. Just listen. I am not talking about
Hitler. That is politics. I am telling you what happened to me.” (90)
A torah reader and past president of her synagogue sisterhood.
Sonia has a kids: Alan, Joyce, and Esther who died of breast cancer in
her early 40‟s. Sonia has 5 grandchildren who bring her much happiness.
In Germany
in 1946

15. Tibor Klausner was about four years old when he first heard
a Gypsy playing the violin in the cafe next to his father‟s
restaurant in Arad, Romania. Tibor wanted to play also, but his
parents didn‟t have enough money to buy one.
When Tibor was 6 years old, a professional musician tested
him and approved his talent, and he started lessons. From then
on, he practiced several hours a day.
The Klausners‟ lived in a 2-room apartment in the same
building as their fathers restaurant. Hermann worked long
hours, rarely spending time with the family except on Shabbat.
From 1939-1941, Arad‟s 6,430 Jews lost their businesses and
were forced to live in the Ghettos.. Hermann Klausner was
taken to a labor camp but escaped. Tibor belonged to a Zionist
underground organization. During the last year of the war, the
Klaussner's hid together in farms on the countryside.
Afterward, 14-year old Tibor escaped communist Romania
to study in Budapest at the Listz Academy of Music. He was
arrested when he returned to visit his parents illegally.

16. His father got Tibor out by bribing the guard, the same year
the border closed in 1948, Tibor accepted a full scholarship to
International Conservation of Music in Paris.
He added an “s” to the Romanian version of his name,
Tiberiu, and was know as Tiberius Klausner. Five years later, he
came to New York to study at the Juilliard School of Music.
Then he only spoke Romanian, Hungarian , German and French ,
but no English. A part-time job helped him pay rent and eat.
At age 23 he became a part of the Kansas City Philharmonic
and became the youngest concertmaster of a major symphony
orchestra.
In 1959 , Tiberius met Carla Levine, who was home from
college to visit her parents, Ed and Rose. Tiberius was at their
house to rehearse for a Beth Shalom Synagogue Program In
which Rose would accompany him on the piano. Carla and him
married 4 years later, after she finished her PhD at Harvard.

17. He resigned from the Philharmonic in 1967 to accept a professorship
at the University of Missouri-Kansas city. Tiberius returned when the
Philharmonic was reborn as the Kansas City Symphony, until he retired
in 1999.
The Klausners Have 3 daughters, Danielle and twins Mirra and Serena.
They have one grandchild named Haidee.
In Paris,
1952

18. “Once when I spoke, one of them asked
me whether I was glad when I heard that
Hitler committed suicide. I said: „No, I was
not glad. He should have stood there and
answered to the world for what he did and
not let his people take the blame for
everything.‟
“And they applauded. They stood up and
they applauded. It was unbelievable.” (151)
-Sonia Golad

19. “If I didn‟t believe in God, I wouldn‟t be her.
God helped me to be here.”
-Abe Gutovitz
“I never stopped believing in God”
-Joseph Greenbaum
“I do my candle lighting. I talk to God every
night.” (161)
- Sonia Golad

20. “My oldest daughter and I went back to
my hometown two years ago. I wanted her to
see her roots. We walked the streets and
then went to the school and took pictures.
For me it was like it was closure.
“I really don‟t want to ho back there
anymore. There is nothing there. There is not
one Jew from 3,000 Jewish families. Not
one.” (161)
-Clara Grossman

21. Everyone will remember the holocaust and it
will still haunt those who survived it. But
just remember those whose families got
murdered and those whose friends got beat
to death. All the people who survived this
are lucky and if they didn‟t survive a lot of
us probably wouldn‟t be here.

22. Dodd, Monroe, ed. From The Heart; Life
before and after the Holocaust –A Mosaic
of Memories. 1st ed. Kansas City: Kansas City
Star Books, 2001. Print.

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