“Never shall I forget the little faces of the children whose bodies turned into wreaths of smoke beneath a silent blue sky.” Wise words of Elie Wiesel, a Holocaust survivor himself. The holocaust was and still is a devastating and horrifying event. During this time, everyone it seems was affected, especially children. Young children, especially Jewish, were targeted as a “threat” and was killed because if they lived, they would grow up to the next generation of Jews and it Hitler’s mind this was absurd. During the Holocaust, children were killed, died from not worthy treatment, or hid for years ‘in hopes of surviving, while the German kids didn’t think anything of what going on until it was over and adults, and if you were one of the lucky Jews …show more content…
The first way was, children were killed when arriving to killing centers. Also, they were killed immediately after birth. Thirdly, children only survived at the different camps if prisoners hid them and found different ways to keep them alive. Lastly, children over the age of twelve were used as lab experiments. During this time, children died from starvation, exposure, lack of clothing and shelter, and shootings. In Hitler’s mind, children, especially Jewish, were “useless eaters” (Museum). Throughout the Holocaust, over 1.1 million children died. How heartbreaking is that. Some of the few ways to survive was too plain out hid so they didn’t have to go to camps, smuggle food to survive, maybe get the lucky chance of surviving through the camps, or the Kidertransport (Lehnardt). “Kindertransport or Children's Transport was the informal name of a rescue effort between 1938 and 1940 which brought thousands of refugee Jewish children, without their parents, to safety in Great Britain from Nazi Germany and German-occupied territories" (Museum). The people and especially children who lived through the Holocaust and survived are truly amazing