All of the Jews were targeted for death, including the children. The young were not usually selected to perform forced labor, most of the time children were too weak or malnourished to serve any good for the Nazis. Children were thought to be a useless mouth the Nazis had to feed, when older Jews could be fed the children’s food portion for stronger labor. At the height of the Holocaust, Germany was in a war and “in the face of the growing shortage of labor, Jewish manpower was sacrificed” towards the World War II effort. Jewish children could not benefit the Nazis with labor towards the war effort, so this is why the children were the first to be killed. Young children, the disabled, and the elderly were the first group sent to death immediately
