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Elses Geschichte - Else's Story
Michail Krausnick and Lukas Ruegenberg • 2014
Levels and forms of education
Primary Education
Teacher Training
Other Levels and Forms of Education
Resource type
Alternative textbooks
Other
Historic approaches concerned
Cultural History
Global History
Local History
Political History
Social History
Transnational History
Historic period
1918-1939 (“Interwar Period”)
Second World War
1945-2000
Countries or areas concerned
Europe, Central Europe, Eastern Europe, Southeastern Europe, Northern Europe, Southern Europe, Western Europe
Languages
German
Description
The information compiled here is intended to support readers in their encounter with ‘Else's Story’. The ‘Background information’ offers a categorisation of the story in its historical context with further links and literature references. The ‘Educational materials’ provide suggestions and working materials for an in-depth discussion when reading the book with children and young people. The resource tells the story of Else Schmidt, who was born in Hamburg in 1935 and raised by foster parents. She was deported to Auschwitz at the age of 8 in 1944 because her birth mother was categorised and traced as part of the Roma and Sinti minority by the Nazis. Her foster father succeeded in having her released from the camp system. As an adult, Else has shared her traumatic experience in the camps with the public to educate people about the crimes of the Nazi regime.
Keywords
Education Resources
Learning Materials
Holocaust
Roma Holocaust
World War II
Roma
Sinti
Testimony
Personal History
Family History
Nazi