As life in Germany became increasingly dangerous and the deportation of thousands began, parents were faced with the choice of risking their children’s lives, or hiding them. One opportunity to hide them presented itself in 1938, a couple of years before millions of jews would be murdered by the mobile killing squads accompanying the German army as it invaded the Soviet Union (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, N.D). In the article “Children during the Holocaust (abridged article)” an opportunity parents had to hide their kids is highlighted , “Between 1938 and 1940, the Kindertransport(Children's Transport) was the informal name of a rescue effort which brought thousands of refugee Jewish children (without their parents) to safety in Great Britain from Nazi Germany and German-occupied territories.” (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, N.D). These transports sent the children to territories were they would be safer. The goal was for organizations to help pay for the children’s education and care, while away (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, N.D). …show more content…
Hitler’s “Solution” to the problem that was the Jewish people was to murder six and a half million of them throughout Europe. The ghettos, where Jews were isolated from the outside world, were emptied as thousands were sent to the concentration camps. At the camps families were separated. The elderly, the weak, pregnant women, and little children, were immediately killed either by an SS soldier or by the gas chambers. During this time children had less of a chance of surviving. At one of the camps, Auschwitz, children went straight from the ramp where they were unloaded, to the gas chambers (Auschwitz.org, “Jewish Children”). They weren’t able to work so they were gassed. The few children that were chosen to live were put to work (Auschwitz.org, “Jewish Children”). Some would even be used in experiments by SS doctors (Auschwitz.org, “Jewish