Children Of The Holocaust: Children Of The Holocaust
Children of the Holocaust
Children were the most vulnerable people during the holocaust era. The Nazis had it set in their minds that they killed them because of a racial struggle or as a measure of security. The Germans and their collaborators killed them for both those reasons and also in retaliation towards the partisan attacks.
1.5 million children were brutally murdered by both the Germans and their collaborators. Amongst these children about one million Jewish children were killed. The remaining amount of children killed were Romani Gypsy children, German children with physical and mental disabilities living in institutions, Posh children, and children residing in the occupied Soviet Union. Jewish and non-Jewish adolescents between …show more content…
Few children survived. Across Europe in killing centers and concentration camps, systematic murder, abuse, disease, and medical experiments took the many lives of children. Only 6,700 teenagers were a bit more fortunate to be selected for forced labor out of the 216,000 Jewish youngsters sent to Auschwitz camp. Soviet troops found just 451 Jewish children among the 9,000 surviving prisoners, when camp was liberated.
After the war, the parents whose children were in hiding spent months and years searching for them. Some parents were fortunate on finding them only shortly after but, not everyone ran the same luck. Many parents had to resort to tracing services, newspaper services, and survivor registries in hope of finding their children. The search for family usually ended in tragedy. For some parents, they discovered their offspring were killed or had disappeared. For children who were in hiding, had to accept the cold truth that no one had survived and they weren’t going to be reclaimed. Children during the holocaust had a very hard time with processing all that was occurring. This was a horrible amount of time that they had to live through. Few survived and a great amount died. It is now
Children were the most vulnerable people during the holocaust era. The Nazis had it set in their minds that they killed them because of a racial struggle or as a measure of security. The Germans and their collaborators killed them for both those reasons and also in retaliation towards the partisan attacks.
1.5 million children were brutally murdered by both the Germans and their collaborators. Amongst these children about one million Jewish children were killed. The remaining amount of children killed were Romani Gypsy children, German children with physical and mental disabilities living in institutions, Posh children, and children residing in the occupied Soviet Union. Jewish and non-Jewish adolescents between …show more content…
Few children survived. Across Europe in killing centers and concentration camps, systematic murder, abuse, disease, and medical experiments took the many lives of children. Only 6,700 teenagers were a bit more fortunate to be selected for forced labor out of the 216,000 Jewish youngsters sent to Auschwitz camp. Soviet troops found just 451 Jewish children among the 9,000 surviving prisoners, when camp was liberated.
After the war, the parents whose children were in hiding spent months and years searching for them. Some parents were fortunate on finding them only shortly after but, not everyone ran the same luck. Many parents had to resort to tracing services, newspaper services, and survivor registries in hope of finding their children. The search for family usually ended in tragedy. For some parents, they discovered their offspring were killed or had disappeared. For children who were in hiding, had to accept the cold truth that no one had survived and they weren’t going to be reclaimed. Children during the holocaust had a very hard time with processing all that was occurring. This was a horrible amount of time that they had to live through. Few survived and a great amount died. It is now