The Holocaust: The Lives Of Children During The Holocaust

Children of the Holocaust

The holocaust started in 1933 when Adolf Hitler rose to power in Germany, and ended in 1945 by the Allied powers. Over eleven million people died during the holocaust, with six million of them being Jews. The sad thing is that over one million of these deaths were children.[1] Many children’s childhoods were ripped away from them as they were taken away from their parents and put in concentrations camps. Of the many children that lived during the Holocaust, only a few survived. The survival of children during the Holocaust was significant because they lived to tell their story. “A total of approximately nine million Jews lived in the twenty-one countries that were later occupied by Germany in World War II.”[2]…show more content…
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Weinstock, Yale G. “What Came Before” http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/education/ newsletter/16/main_article.asp Accessed 7 April 2014.

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[1] “Jewish VIctims of the Holocaust: Hidden Children,” Jewish VIrtual Library, http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/hidden.html
[2] Yale G. Weinstock, “What Came Before” Yad Veshem, June 2004, 2.
[3] Ibid. , 1.
[4] “Marion Lazan, Holocaust Survivor, relives Nightmare to Educate Students” (Accessed April 16 2014); available from…show more content…
Bartoletti, Hitler Youth: Growing up in Hitler’s Shadow, (New York: Scholastic Inc., 2005), 23.
[8] Ibid., 24.
[9] Linda A. Jacobs, The Holocaust, Hitler, and Nazi Germany, (Berkley Heights, NJ; Enslow Publishing Inc. ,1999), 85.
[10] “Children During the Holocaust,” in the Holocaust Encyclopedia, 2013 ed.
[11] Ibid.
[12] “Irena Mendler: An Unsung Heroine,” (Accessed April 12, 2014); available from http://www.auschwitz.dk/sendler.htm
[13] Ibid.
[14] “Jewish Victims of the Holocaust:Hidden Children,” Jewish Virtual Library (Accessed April 1, 2014); available from http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/hidden.html
[15] Jennifer Rosenberg, Hidden Children (Accessed April 1,2014); available from http://history1900s.about.com/od/holocaust/a/hiddenchildren.htm
[16] Ibid.
[17] “Anne Frank,” (Accessed April 17, 2014); available from www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/anne-frank
[18] Ibid.
[19] “Types of Camps,” The Holocaust Explained, (Accessed April 14, 2014); available from http://www.theholoacaustexplained.org
[20] Ibid.
[21] “Children During the Holocaust,” in the Holocaust Encyclopedia, 2013, ed.
[22] Ibid.
[23] “Types of Camps,” The Holocaust Explained, (Accessed April 14, 2014); available from