The Holocaust is one of the most dreadful topics to talk about. It was one of the uttermost crucial moments in the world. What was even more depressing, is the children that had to go through those awful moments. Of the millions of children murdered in the holocaust, some of who survived endured the chance to tell their stories. The holocaust was between the years of 1933 and 1945. In 1939, Germany invaded Poland, and that’s how World War two started. “Hitler was partly motivated by a fanatical hatred of Jews, whom he blamed for Germany’s loss for World War one” (Burbar, and Brown). By then, serval of the non-Jewish people treated the Jewish so poorly. The Jewish children got separated from other children and were forced to wear a yellow star.
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They were the children in hiding. Even though they were safe from the concentration camps, their lives weren't as easy as average children. They always had a fear of getting caught. Many Churches, Christian and Catholic religion were hiding the children. “The nuns to be intelligent, devout individuals who mostly accepted the challenges of hiding Jewish children without the support or knowledge of their superiors in the Belgian Catholic Church"(Ehrenreich). Many Jewish children got another identity, so they can have more freedom. Although, there were other children that had to go into complete hiding and barely even step out of the places they were hiding. It usually is a house filled with other hidden Jews that they barely knew, it was called a foster home. "For those who were not permitted to journey outside, life in hiding was often filled with pain, torment, and boredom"(“Hidden Children”). Life in hiding isn't always as fun. They could easily become desperate. "Since ancient times, education has been an important element of Jewish culture"(Hidden Children). Hidden children didn’t really have the chance of studying a lot. They might have a couple of books laying from here and there. Also, the Jewish children couldn’t attend school anymore. The other Jewish children that could go out tried to learn as much as possible from the outside world. "Children …show more content…
For example, Anne Frank, she was one of the children in hiding. She wrote about her life while being in hiding in a form of a diary. While reading it, it seemed awful to go through all the scare, and encounters she had to go through. Her well-known book and most famous is called The Diary of Anne Frank. Then there is another famous book, called Night, by Elie Wisel. He was a teenager about fifteen that was sent to a concentration camp. He was separated from his whole family except his father. He is one of the survivors of the Holocaust and an author too. "Like Anne Frank, some young people lived in hiding to evade the German authorities: in attics, bunkers, and cellars throughout western Europe"(“Children's Diaries”)." The diary of Miriam Wattenberg (“Mary Berg”) was one of the first children's journals which revealed to a wider public the horrors of the Holocaust"(“Children Diaries”). Her story was mostly about her family, and how they got transferred to the Warsaw ghetto. All the diaries that many people found in the past, of the holocaust. Tells numerous individuals, about the children, teenagers, adult’s lives in the holocaust. Also from them, that’s how we know so much deep background on what was happening in that era. It's amazing how many children wrote diaries to reflect about their time in the holocaust. In a book that’s called
They were the children in hiding. Even though they were safe from the concentration camps, their lives weren't as easy as average children. They always had a fear of getting caught. Many Churches, Christian and Catholic religion were hiding the children. “The nuns to be intelligent, devout individuals who mostly accepted the challenges of hiding Jewish children without the support or knowledge of their superiors in the Belgian Catholic Church"(Ehrenreich). Many Jewish children got another identity, so they can have more freedom. Although, there were other children that had to go into complete hiding and barely even step out of the places they were hiding. It usually is a house filled with other hidden Jews that they barely knew, it was called a foster home. "For those who were not permitted to journey outside, life in hiding was often filled with pain, torment, and boredom"(“Hidden Children”). Life in hiding isn't always as fun. They could easily become desperate. "Since ancient times, education has been an important element of Jewish culture"(Hidden Children). Hidden children didn’t really have the chance of studying a lot. They might have a couple of books laying from here and there. Also, the Jewish children couldn’t attend school anymore. The other Jewish children that could go out tried to learn as much as possible from the outside world. "Children …show more content…
For example, Anne Frank, she was one of the children in hiding. She wrote about her life while being in hiding in a form of a diary. While reading it, it seemed awful to go through all the scare, and encounters she had to go through. Her well-known book and most famous is called The Diary of Anne Frank. Then there is another famous book, called Night, by Elie Wisel. He was a teenager about fifteen that was sent to a concentration camp. He was separated from his whole family except his father. He is one of the survivors of the Holocaust and an author too. "Like Anne Frank, some young people lived in hiding to evade the German authorities: in attics, bunkers, and cellars throughout western Europe"(“Children's Diaries”)." The diary of Miriam Wattenberg (“Mary Berg”) was one of the first children's journals which revealed to a wider public the horrors of the Holocaust"(“Children Diaries”). Her story was mostly about her family, and how they got transferred to the Warsaw ghetto. All the diaries that many people found in the past, of the holocaust. Tells numerous individuals, about the children, teenagers, adult’s lives in the holocaust. Also from them, that’s how we know so much deep background on what was happening in that era. It's amazing how many children wrote diaries to reflect about their time in the holocaust. In a book that’s called