Holocaust

Holocaust Children of the Camps During the Holocaust, millions of Jews, gypsies, and members of other groups were persecuted and murdered by Nazi occupied Europe. However, many forget to acknowledge that among these were children. It may never be known exactly how many children were murdered but it is said that as many as some 1.5 million children may have fell victim to the Nazi party. Although children were not a main target of the Nazi’s violence, they did fall subject to persecution along with their parents. Jewish children were first exposed to persecution in school. Many of their friends who were not Jewish began not socializing with them and even began to treat them in prejudice ways. This was soon followed with the announcement that, “German Jewish children were prohibited from attending German schools” (www.mtsu.edu/.baustin/children.html). The life of children had quickly become as torn apart as their parents. However, there were more efforts to help the children escape the grips of the Nazi rule. Before 1939, several thousand children were able to escape in “Kindertransports” to the Netherlands, Great Britain, Palestine, and the United States” (www.mtsu.edu/.baustin/children.html). Those who were not able to escape were placed in ghettos and transit camps. These children, camps, ghettos, age, often, living, jewish, work, separated, sent, parents, life, camp, wwwauschwitzdk/bullenhuserhtml, taken, school, jews, forced, even, working, witness, within, very, subject, soon, one, once, old, nazi, labor, however, holocaust, group, gas, food