Children During The Holocaust

There were many children involved in the Holocaust, and they were a part of many experiments and hidings. They were beat until they were bleeding or bruised. 1.5 million Jewish children were killed during the Holocaust. About 6,000 Romani (Gypsy) children were killed in Auschwitz. Children during the Holocaust were put through hard circumstances and were treated as if they were not human.

The Germans killed children for racial struggles and unwanted or dangerous groups. During the Holocaust, there were over 1 million Jewish children were killed. Hundreds of children for Poland, mostly kids that had blonde hair and blue eyes, were kidnapped and sent to Reich. This gave the kids opportunities to be adopted by German families (to be Germanized). Women that were pregnant were forced to either have an abortion or kill their own child(ren) immediately after birth. After the war, thousands of orphaned children were placed in a displaced persons camp (a camp that people without families, or people that aren’t financially stable go).There were many kids killed during the Holocaust. …show more content…
They were hidden under floors, in sewers, and in haylofts for several hours at a time, which was very difficult for small children. Marion Pritchard, a Dutch social work student, was credited with saving dozens of Jews during the Holocaust. She was said to have fed, clothed, hidden or otherwise aided as many as 150 people, many of them being children. She insisted that she could not have done her work without the assistance of neighbors, friends and other members of the resistance. Hiding was the best way to keep them