World War II: Jewish Children's Struggle

Jewish Children’s Struggle Although life was bad for Jewish adults during WWII, it was harder for children to survive. They were forced into hard labor, put into hiding, and were the victims of of horrendous experiments. The Germans killed almost 1.5 million children in total, including a million Jews, thousands of Romani kids, and mentally and physically disabled children. Children were killed when arriving in camps, killed immediatly after birth, were hidden in camps, put to work in hard labor, used for medical experiments, and killed during anti-partisan operations. Many Jewish children were forced to do hard labor as a part of “annihilation through work”. The working was usually pointless and very straining. The kids did not have proper