Children During The Holocaust

Children of the Holocaust
Many children would live or die in terrible and terrifying conditions during the Holocaust. The Jewish children of the Holocaust had very little chance of survival. The ways children died, and survived is something no one should ever have to go through. Some children spent most of their lives begging for food on the streets and ended up being killed. If someone who was Jewish had a disability during the Holocaust they did not get to live their life like everyone else. Not just Jewish people were killed though.
Children living in ghettos with or without their families would have to fend for themselves. Ghetto children would become orphaned every day because their parents would be killed or taken into …show more content…
The Nazis placed a violent program against the Jews known as Kristallnacht. After this program, Great Britain agreed to let unspecified children under the age of seventeen into their country (Kindertransport). On December 2, 1938, the very first Kindertransport arrived in Harwich, Great Britain. The organization who planned these transports were Reich Representation of Jews in Germany, which were Jewish organizations Germany (Kindertransport). A Jewish orphanage was destroyed in Berlin Germany, with more than two hundred children. Those orphans were the first children to arrive in Great Britain through the Kindertransports organization with around two hundred children. The transports usually left from Berlin, Vienna or Prague. (Kindertransport) Children left from those cities and headed to Belgium and the Netherlands, then sailing to Harwich. (Kindertransport) There was no one allowed to travel over the age of seventeen. So, if infants were on board they would be taken care of by the older children (Kindertransport). Children that traveled alone were using temporary visas because, when the war was over Great Britain made it clear the children would go back to their country. In some cases, children stayed in Great Britain and became …show more content…
But, in these villages, it was the children they targeted. Gypsy, Polish, and sometimes even German children were usually sent to Auschwitz to be killed. All in all the Nazi’s killed over one million Jewish children and tens of thousands of non- Jewish children. The total being around 1.5 million children killed (Children).
Many children died, but not all of them died the same way. Many children died in the gas chambers along with most of the adults. But, towards the end of the war gas bills got too high so they began to throw children into burning pits or into ovens (Auschwitz). 5,000 -7,000 children were victims of the euthanasia program. This was the first program used during the Holocaust. The program spent much time targeting children with disabilities. Children died in different ways but every way was brutal.
After the war, the survivors could never find their families, and will never know if they died or ended up somewhere else. Many parents spent months and even years searching for their children after the war ended (Jewish). “On January 27, 1945, Auschwitz was freed, among the 9,000 survivors 451 were Jewish children (Jewish).” Even though there were survivors when the war ended way too many died. Around six to eleven percent of Jewish children population survived the Holocaust (Jewish). Just because the war was over, the number of lives that were lost was still

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