Children in the Holocaust

During the Holocaust, children were killed, forced to go to school, and suffered terribly.  Hitler and Nazis killed 1.5 billion people and 1.3 billion of them were children who starved to death.  Children did not have a life worth living but then again, some of them survived.   Children and their families were threatend to leave their houses in five minutes to be taken away to a concentration camp.  Children normally went to school to learn what we all leaarn today, not during the Holocaust.  Nazis made children go to school to be better Nazis. They had schedules of how their day would go.  Truly was one of the worsts parts of our history, 1939.

How Children Died 

Nazis put children in tiny cells with other people and put gallons of poisonous gas into the cells.  Once one child and others breathed it in, they would die after about eight seconds. Besides the gas, 1.5 million children were murdered by Nazis and 1.3 million children died of starvation and hydration.  At least 5,000 German and Austrian children were killed.  Survivor, Simon Wiesenthal explains, “God must have been on leave during the Holocaust”, (Wiesenthal).

Where the Children Died  

Children could die in their cabins where they were closed together with 400 people in one cabin.  Nazis held power to do anything they wanted them to do.  If not, they would kill them.  Nazis could beat them to death if children misbehaved or they could shoot them.  Children would be forced to be put in tiny cells where Nazis dropped poisonous gas causing them to breathe it in and die slowly.  Survivor, Stephen Ambrose stated, “The Holocaust was the most evil crime ever committed “ (Ambrose).

Life For Children 

 Children and their families were forced out of their houses given five minutes to evacuate their house.  If they took anymore time, then Nazis would beat them and drag them out of their houses.  The first German concentration camp was established in 1933.  Woman Olga Albogen stated, "…We didn't even say goodbye to Mother and the little ones. We just had some food yet from home and I gave it to my mother"  (Albogen). Children did not just suffer in the concentration camps, they also had to go to school.  Nazis forced them to go to school to learn to be good Nazis. This was their schedule.

Children working in a concentration camp

People in their cabins of a concentratioin camp

Bodies of Concentration Camp Victims

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