Thursday, July 21

One Thousand Children
Website Project

One Thousand Children is a website of the history of efforts in the U.S. to help Jewish children fleeing from Europe before and during WW II.

Using the website, OneThousandChildren.org complete the following assignments:

1. Read the details of the amazing story of who saved the children and how they did it at this website: http://www.onethousandchildren.org/learnmore/howtheywererescued.html


2. Read the information from the “Introduction” and write a paragraph summarizing the information.

3. Then read “The Beginning of the Child Refugee Scheme” and write one paragraph explaining what the “child refugee scheme” was, how it helped the Jewish children during WWII, and why adult refugees weren’t helped as well