How The Holocaust's Effect On Child Survivors
The Holocaust's Effect on Child Survivors of Concentration Camps and Following Generations
Dominique Rudisel
Psych 2
Gavilan College
A brief history of the Holocaust:
"Holocaust" is a word of Greek origin, "Holos" meaning "whole" and "kaustos" meaning "burned". The Holocaust was the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of approximately six million European Jews, but an estimated 1 million people as a direct result, by the Nazi regime and its collaborators during World War II (ushmm 2013). The anti-Sematic Nazi leader, Adolf Hitler believed, and persuaded many others to believe that the Jews were the cause of Germany's failure in WWI and also, as a race, they were inferior and damaging to the racial "purity" of the German race.
The first official concentration camp was Dachau, opened in Germany in March of 1933. This camp was intended for prisoners of war and political prisoners, but this first concentration camp became a simple template for the construction of more disgusting camps, hosting more than just "political prisoners", and for the "Final …show more content…
It is recorded that 7 babies, 4 girls and 3 boys, where born in Dachau concentration camp during the Holocaust and 2 babies, 1 boy and 1 girl were born in Auschwitz-Birkenau before or on liberation day. Many pregnant women and unborn children entered concentration camps and nearly all had a similar fate- death. In many cases, the unborn child would die in womb sometime during the fetal period and gestational age from starvation. Pregnant women, if discovered, were sent to death or to be experimented on. If a woman did give birth in camp, undiscovered, the baby usually died of starvation, disease or pneumonia. If a baby was born and camp then discovered, Nazi guards would make women sign a form to "sign their baby over" which was really a form of agreement to
Dominique Rudisel
Psych 2
Gavilan College
A brief history of the Holocaust:
"Holocaust" is a word of Greek origin, "Holos" meaning "whole" and "kaustos" meaning "burned". The Holocaust was the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of approximately six million European Jews, but an estimated 1 million people as a direct result, by the Nazi regime and its collaborators during World War II (ushmm 2013). The anti-Sematic Nazi leader, Adolf Hitler believed, and persuaded many others to believe that the Jews were the cause of Germany's failure in WWI and also, as a race, they were inferior and damaging to the racial "purity" of the German race.
The first official concentration camp was Dachau, opened in Germany in March of 1933. This camp was intended for prisoners of war and political prisoners, but this first concentration camp became a simple template for the construction of more disgusting camps, hosting more than just "political prisoners", and for the "Final …show more content…
It is recorded that 7 babies, 4 girls and 3 boys, where born in Dachau concentration camp during the Holocaust and 2 babies, 1 boy and 1 girl were born in Auschwitz-Birkenau before or on liberation day. Many pregnant women and unborn children entered concentration camps and nearly all had a similar fate- death. In many cases, the unborn child would die in womb sometime during the fetal period and gestational age from starvation. Pregnant women, if discovered, were sent to death or to be experimented on. If a woman did give birth in camp, undiscovered, the baby usually died of starvation, disease or pneumonia. If a baby was born and camp then discovered, Nazi guards would make women sign a form to "sign their baby over" which was really a form of agreement to