Ela Stein Informative Speech

Ela Stein is one of the most famous speakers who talks about her time during the Holocaust. Ela Stein was eleven years old in February of 1942 when she was sent to Terezin concentration camp with other Czech Jews(Rubin, Flap). Ela was transported with her mother, sister, grandmother, and her Uncle Otto. Once they got to Terezin a guard ordered them to get off the train, and they had to walk the last couple miles. As they approached the wooden gate of Terezin and the doors closed behind them they knew that were locked up.When they were separated into different barracks Ela’s grandmother was sent to one barrack, her Uncle Otto was sent to a barrack for men, and then Ela and her sister stayed in the same barrack with their mother. Ela remembers that when she went into the barrack that it was so cold and there were people layed there sick and dying from disease and hunger. (Rubin). One night Ela went out to the corridor and heard the sound of prayers. Below in

The Jewish Council of Elders would give the kids a little more food than they did before and they got a better place to live. Ela’s best friend was Eva Winkler. She was in the same room as Ela. Ela and some other girls in Room 28 heard someone singing opera one day and they asked their caretaker, Tella, if they could go down and listen. When the person heard Ela and her friends singing they put them in a choir in Room 28. Their job was to sing “Happy Birthday” to those whose birthday was that day or they would go to the sick and try and cheer them up. Ela was asked to be in a play with some other kids in the other rooms. When she tried out she got the part as the cat in Brundibar, the opera; and after many rehearsals the Nazis allowed them to perform their opera in front of all of the prisoners. Everyone in Terezin knew that Brundibar represented Hitler, and they all sang along to the