The Children of the Holocaust

The children of the Holocaust had plenty of experiences throughout their lives in the Holocaust. They went through very hard times as children from the time when they lived in the ghettos, living conditions, and there transport to safety. What experiences did children who lived in the Holocaust have?

The General way kids lived in the Holocaust was very bad and what they went through. Children would be forced out of their houses with their families. The first group of kids that were transported out of their countries were the ones who lived in Poland. They where forced to live in the ghettos. After they were forced our of there countries they would be forced into the ghettos with very little food and water and being a kid you not get very much food and a result to that they would die faster than the rest of the family. When children were into ghettos they would become orphaned and would have to raise each other. The houses that they lived in were so small they would be so cramped that people would have to live on the streets. The way children would die is when in they were too weak to work they would just kill the Jews. There was over 1 million kids killed during this time in the ghettos from infants to teenagers these kids were split up with there families and they were the first ones in the gas chambers. The Germans considered kids non productive so they killed them (“Childrens History”).

Children of the Holocaust went through some tough times living in the ghettos according to Kitty Saks she explained her life as very tough but very fortunate in the end. Kitty Saks grew up during the holocaust she was one of the three Jew who survived the Holocaust. When people ask her how she feels about the Holocaust she says that just hea...

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...live with them. The fastest way our of the country was to transport was to fly to Britain directly kids who were sponsored went with a foster family and kids who did not have sponsors would attend the summer camps provided to them. The associations who saved these kids focused on the children who were in need of medical condition or who had dead parents or if there family was missing or in concentration camps. Children chosen by the kinder-transport were chosen were transported either by train or sailed out and the last transport was May 14, 1946 (“Holocaust Transport”).

In conclusion to all of these examples of how the children who lived during the holocaust went through very hard times as children from time when they lived in the ghettos, living conditions, and there transport to safety. These are the experiences children had to live through during the Holocaust.