The photo depicts kids behind a fence, looking onto something. What it is, I have no idea, but given their current situation, I could infer it was something that all of them would have to face at one point in the coming days. Each child standing at the fence has a different expression on their face. They each have a different story to tell, each gone through a different struggle. Some have lost their families while others didn’t have any to begin with. They are all too young to understand what is happening and why they are being treated this way. At this point, they are all scared and confused. All they can do is fight to survive, even if it means killing someone. They don’t feel remorse, they don’t feel guilt, and they are prepared to do what
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Each camp was liberated at a different time; so many children could’ve died in the meantime. And by the looks on the kids’ faces, they could have been looking onto death of some sort. Following the defeat of Nazi Germany, the world learned of the staggering human toll of the Holocaust. Few Jewish children survived. In killing centers and concentration camps across Europe, systematic murder, abuse, disease, and medical experiments took many lives. Of the estimated 216,000 Jewish youngsters deported to Auschwitz, only 6,700 teenagers were selected for forced labor; nearly all the others were sent directly to the gas chambers. When the camp was liberated on January 27, 1945, Soviet troops found just 451 Jewish children among the 9,000 surviving prisoners. Soon after liberation, Jewish agencies throughout Europe began tracing survivors and measuring communal losses. In the Low Countries, perhaps some 9,000 Jewish children survived. Of the almost 1 million Jewish children in 1939 Poland, only about 5,000 survived. Most of these youngsters survived in …show more content…
Although the basis for these decisions was race scientific, often blond hair, blue eyes, or fair skin was sufficient to merit the opportunity to be Germanized. On the other hand, female Poles and Soviet civilians who had been deported to Germany for forced labor and who had had sexual relations with a German man, often under duress resulting in pregnancy were forced to have abortions or to bear their children under conditions that would ensure the infant's death, if the race experts determined that the child would have insufficient German
Each camp was liberated at a different time; so many children could’ve died in the meantime. And by the looks on the kids’ faces, they could have been looking onto death of some sort. Following the defeat of Nazi Germany, the world learned of the staggering human toll of the Holocaust. Few Jewish children survived. In killing centers and concentration camps across Europe, systematic murder, abuse, disease, and medical experiments took many lives. Of the estimated 216,000 Jewish youngsters deported to Auschwitz, only 6,700 teenagers were selected for forced labor; nearly all the others were sent directly to the gas chambers. When the camp was liberated on January 27, 1945, Soviet troops found just 451 Jewish children among the 9,000 surviving prisoners. Soon after liberation, Jewish agencies throughout Europe began tracing survivors and measuring communal losses. In the Low Countries, perhaps some 9,000 Jewish children survived. Of the almost 1 million Jewish children in 1939 Poland, only about 5,000 survived. Most of these youngsters survived in …show more content…
Although the basis for these decisions was race scientific, often blond hair, blue eyes, or fair skin was sufficient to merit the opportunity to be Germanized. On the other hand, female Poles and Soviet civilians who had been deported to Germany for forced labor and who had had sexual relations with a German man, often under duress resulting in pregnancy were forced to have abortions or to bear their children under conditions that would ensure the infant's death, if the race experts determined that the child would have insufficient German