Children of the Holocaust “... Having to wear the yellow star was the moment when deep fear and misery finally took hold.” ( Beatrice Muchman, Jewish child, Belgium page 2 Life in the Shadows ) World War II began in the September of 1939 and ended in the May of 1945, over these six years over 1.5 million children were put to death by the Germans because they were Jewish.
Do you know what happened to the children during the holocaust? Children were forced to wear the yellow Star of David on all of their clothing. They were also sent to concentration camps.There were two hiding methods for the children. One hiding method was hiding physically in attics, annexes, cellars, ect. Some people made the Jews pay them in order to hide in their houses …show more content…
While in hiding, they would read, often the same book over and over again, tell and listen to stories, play with imaginary friends, draw, and play different games. If a child had lived in a foster home, they would do the same chores as the other family members, feed livestock, do laundry and dishes, and they also helped harvest crops.
Too many children died during the Holocaust. Six million total Jews were persecuted and over one million were children. The child’s survival rate during the holocaust was six to eleven percent, and most that did survive were foster children. If a child got sick while hiding they could not go to a doctor and this caused some to perish. Young children, along with the elderly, were often times put right to death when they arrived at the concentration camps. Children were also killed by medical experiments. There were 9,000 holocaust survivors and only 451 were children.
Many children were separated from their families. Jewish children were left by their parents while in hiding or sometimes foster families would not allow parents to stay because of lack of room. For safety purposes parents were not allowed to know the whereabouts of or contact their children. “ I had been separated from my mother so long that mother didn’t mean anything to
Do you know what happened to the children during the holocaust? Children were forced to wear the yellow Star of David on all of their clothing. They were also sent to concentration camps.There were two hiding methods for the children. One hiding method was hiding physically in attics, annexes, cellars, ect. Some people made the Jews pay them in order to hide in their houses …show more content…
While in hiding, they would read, often the same book over and over again, tell and listen to stories, play with imaginary friends, draw, and play different games. If a child had lived in a foster home, they would do the same chores as the other family members, feed livestock, do laundry and dishes, and they also helped harvest crops.
Too many children died during the Holocaust. Six million total Jews were persecuted and over one million were children. The child’s survival rate during the holocaust was six to eleven percent, and most that did survive were foster children. If a child got sick while hiding they could not go to a doctor and this caused some to perish. Young children, along with the elderly, were often times put right to death when they arrived at the concentration camps. Children were also killed by medical experiments. There were 9,000 holocaust survivors and only 451 were children.
Many children were separated from their families. Jewish children were left by their parents while in hiding or sometimes foster families would not allow parents to stay because of lack of room. For safety purposes parents were not allowed to know the whereabouts of or contact their children. “ I had been separated from my mother so long that mother didn’t mean anything to