During the Holocaust children were often forgotten about when it came to the horrors that they had to go through. During the Holocaust more than 1.5 million children were killed, including Jews, Gypsies, German Children with mental and physical disabilities, and Polish children. Children from both “sides of the fence” were taken from their homes and put in new and strange places, were put in extreme conditions, and did whatever they could to stay alive. Children were a huge part of the Holocaust and if it weren’t for them we wouldn’t know about what it was really like inside the camps.
Children were taken from their homes and moved to places that were completely foreign to them. Whether it was the German kids who were taken from their homes …show more content…
Most children were sent directly to the gas chamber upon arriving at the concentration camps, and infants most were killed immediately after being born, some children who were born in ghetto or in camps where hidden by the prisoners, to help them survive. Most younger children died of starvation, because they couldn’t do much so they were thought of a “useless eaters”, and because most children were generally too young for forced labor, the younger children, the ill elderly, and the disabled were the first to be sent to the killing centers. Children the age of 12 and older were usually used as laborers or as subjects for medical experiments, instead of being killed they would be incarcerated at the camps and the SS physicians would perform experiments to find the perfect Aryan Blood, and be able to breed it to make a perfect society. One of Hitler's main goals of the Holocaust was to rid society of any impure races, and fill it with the perfect race. "The national state..must set race in the center of all life. It must take care to keep it pure. It must declare the child to be the most precious treasure of the people. It must see to it that only the healthy beget children..."(Mein Kampf, Hitler). Children in occupied Poland and occupied Soviet Union were kidnapped and transferred to the Reich, then they would be adopted by racially suitable German families if they fit under the specification of blond hair, blue
Children were taken from their homes and moved to places that were completely foreign to them. Whether it was the German kids who were taken from their homes …show more content…
Most children were sent directly to the gas chamber upon arriving at the concentration camps, and infants most were killed immediately after being born, some children who were born in ghetto or in camps where hidden by the prisoners, to help them survive. Most younger children died of starvation, because they couldn’t do much so they were thought of a “useless eaters”, and because most children were generally too young for forced labor, the younger children, the ill elderly, and the disabled were the first to be sent to the killing centers. Children the age of 12 and older were usually used as laborers or as subjects for medical experiments, instead of being killed they would be incarcerated at the camps and the SS physicians would perform experiments to find the perfect Aryan Blood, and be able to breed it to make a perfect society. One of Hitler's main goals of the Holocaust was to rid society of any impure races, and fill it with the perfect race. "The national state..must set race in the center of all life. It must take care to keep it pure. It must declare the child to be the most precious treasure of the people. It must see to it that only the healthy beget children..."(Mein Kampf, Hitler). Children in occupied Poland and occupied Soviet Union were kidnapped and transferred to the Reich, then they would be adopted by racially suitable German families if they fit under the specification of blond hair, blue