The Holocaust was the biggest tragedy of all time. Adolf Hitler was the leader of the Nazi party from 1934 to 1935, and sent six million Jews to their deaths, including children, women, men and the elderly. The Germans killed as many as 1.5 million Jewish children. Children were very helpless during the Holocaust. Thousands of children survived this brutal massacre, however, many survived because they were hidden, disguised, and even obscured from the world. The children had their childhood taken from them and for their own sake had to act like adults. Children were a significant part of the holocaust because they not only had to lose their childhood, but themselves.
Annelies Marie “Anne” Frank was a Jewish teenager who was an important victim …show more content…
He grew up on a farm in eastern Poland. Samuel had an older brother and sister. His mother died when he was only seven then his father moved away and remarried leaving Samuel and his siblings with his grandparents. When Samuel was nine years old the Germans occupied Poland. On July 1942, all jews including Samuel and his family were sent into a overcrowded ghetto filled with diseases, no medicine, and little food. While in the ghettos Samuel would often sneak out to look for food for his starving family. Around August, he escaped to the Countryside and found a friendly peasant woman who risked her life by teaching him how to hide his identity. He was given a new name,different clothes and was taught to read in a different language. Once he felt prepared, Samuel left her home to go work in the village where he worked in tending cows on a farm. He had lived there for 3 years but the thought of getting discovered frightened him. When Samuel was fifteen the Russian Army defeated the Germans. He feared coming out as his true identity but as other survivors came out of hiding he left the farm and joined them. Hoping he’d find his family he realized he was all alone. Samuel had to act like an adult in order to survive but in the end he lost all of his loved ones and he had to live with a Tragic experience that he would never
Annelies Marie “Anne” Frank was a Jewish teenager who was an important victim …show more content…
He grew up on a farm in eastern Poland. Samuel had an older brother and sister. His mother died when he was only seven then his father moved away and remarried leaving Samuel and his siblings with his grandparents. When Samuel was nine years old the Germans occupied Poland. On July 1942, all jews including Samuel and his family were sent into a overcrowded ghetto filled with diseases, no medicine, and little food. While in the ghettos Samuel would often sneak out to look for food for his starving family. Around August, he escaped to the Countryside and found a friendly peasant woman who risked her life by teaching him how to hide his identity. He was given a new name,different clothes and was taught to read in a different language. Once he felt prepared, Samuel left her home to go work in the village where he worked in tending cows on a farm. He had lived there for 3 years but the thought of getting discovered frightened him. When Samuel was fifteen the Russian Army defeated the Germans. He feared coming out as his true identity but as other survivors came out of hiding he left the farm and joined them. Hoping he’d find his family he realized he was all alone. Samuel had to act like an adult in order to survive but in the end he lost all of his loved ones and he had to live with a Tragic experience that he would never