Children Of The Holocaust
Description
The sources describe the experience of children during the Holocaust, a period of systematic persecution and annihilation of Jews and other groups by the Nazi regime during World War II. The children targeted included Jewish children, Roma children, disabled children, and Polish children from various European countries. These children faced deportation to ghettos and concentration camps, where they suffered from starvation, disease, overcrowding, and the loss of their parents. Many children were killed immediately upon arrival at extermination camps or subjected to inhumane medical experiments. While a small number survived by hiding, being taken in by non-Jewish families, or through the Kindertransport rescue effort, the majority did not survive the Holocaust—those who did often faced immense trauma and loss and struggled to rebuild their lives after the war.
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