CHILDREN OF THE HOLOCAUST

NAZI VIEW OF THE CHILDREN

Children were vulnerable in the era of the Holocaust. The Nazis advocated killing children of "unwanted" or "dangerous" groups in accordance with their ideological views, either as part of the "racial struggle" or as a measure of preventative security. The Germans and their collaborators killed children both for these ideological reasons and in retaliation for real or alleged partisan attacks.

WHAT HAPPENED TO THE KIDS?

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• The children were killed when they arrived in the camps
• Children were killed immediately after birth or in institutions
• Children usually over the age 12 were used as laborer sand as subjects or medical expixperiments
• Children killed during reprisal operations or so-called anti-partisan operations.

MEET THE CHILDREN

Lilly Klein
Daughter of Sara and Sander Klein,she lived with her mother and seven siblings in the city of Debrecen, Hungary. When the Germans invaded Hungary in March 1944, Lilly was a seventeen year old student.
Lilly and her family were rounded up and herded into a sealed-off ghetto where they were kept for 2 months. The Germans started sending the Jewish residents of Debrecen to the Auschwitz death camps. Towards the end of June, Lilly was put on a train going to Auschwitz. However, the trains could not get through because the tracks had been bombed in allied air raids. Instead of going to Auschwitz it diverted to the Strasshoff concentration camp in Austria. There, Lilly was forced to work to the point of total exhaustion. Food was scarce and those who couldn't work were murdered.
When the camp was liberated in April 1945, 18-year-old Lily was barely alive

Emmanuel Alper

Emanuel was born in Pinsk, Poland in 1927. His father David was prominent educator ,principle of the prestigious Tarbut Gymnasia (a Jewish high school), and his mother Shoshana was a teacher.
The Germans occupied Pinsk in July 1941 and immediately set up to facilitate their planned murder of the entire Jewish population of the city. The German set up a sealed off ghetto on April 30, 1942 . They forced the entire Jewish population including Emmanuel,his Sister and mother inside the ghetto. It was overcrowded and lacked adequate food and sanitation. Between October 20 and November 1, 1942 all of the 20,000 Jews remaining in the ghetto were rounded up by the Germans and murdered. Emmanuel was 15 years old.
Emanuel was one of the 1.5 million Jewish children that were murdered by the Holocausts and their collaborators.

MANY WERE USED FOR EXPIRAMENTS

The Bullenhuser Dam was one part of the camp which conducted experiments and children.
In November 1944 they had twenty Jewish children, 10 girls and 10 boys brought from Auschwitz concentration camps to the Neuengamme concentration camp for this purpose.

FOR THOSE WHO LIVED

New Homes?
For the survivors,returning to life as it had been before the Holocaust was impossible. Jewish communities no longer existed much of Europe. When people tried to return to their homes from camps or hiding places, they found that ,in many cases ,their homes had been looted or taken over by others

WHERE TO GO?
Many survivors ended up in the displaced persons camp set up Western Europe under allied military occupation at the sites of former concentration camps. There they waited to be admitted to places like the United States and South Africa. First many countries continued their old immigration policies which greatly limited the number of refugees they would accept. However many British ruled countries like Palestine let the Jews in.

NEVER FORGET