Essay On Children In The Holocaust

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Children in the Holocaust: The Sadness and Horrors of Their Lives
The Holocaust was an incredibly horrific time for the Jewish, but especially for children. Children and teens experienced terrifying things, such as the losses of their kin, medical experiments, and other devastating atrocities.
During the Holocaust, many children were forced to go into hiding, whether it meant staying in the worst of conditions or staying there for years at a time. “I am begging for help… A few days later…. I am full with lice and other kind of crawly stuff…. I live in that attic for nearly 2 years…” (Altman 46). “…I was given a new name which I had to memorize and always remember”(Altman 55). Many more of these children were also forced to take on new identities …show more content…

Many of their family members either died or simply...broke. One child, Fela, as mentioned in Linda Altman’s book, Hidden Teens, Hidden Lives: Primary Sources from the Holocaust, described that she, “…mourned her mother not only because she died, but… Because she died alone…” (11). Along with the many deaths of their family members, many children themselves died during this horrible time. As a result of the lack of mercy put on the Jewish, “the Germans and their collaborators killed as many as 1.5 million children” (Children During the Holocaust), along with the deaths of the other adults and elders in these camps and elsewhere. It was also said in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, that as well as the fact that all the Jewish were being killed, “…the mortality rate for children was especially high…,” and “…only 6 to 11% of Europe’s prewar Jewish population of children survived as compared with 33% of the adults,” (Plight of Jewish Children). In conclusion, it is also very striking that many people from this time period are still alive to tell their tales. And even though this example of religious bigotry has drawn to an end, what does this say about the courses of many children's lives, with racism and other forms of prejudice, throughout our lives

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