Children of the Holocaust Due to how long ago the Holocaust took place, it's weird to think that all the kid survivors are now in their 80’s or older. Now and days, children and teens can’t even comprehend the horrors that took place. Those children were isolated to a life without experiences at a young age, many will never know what it was like to go to middle school or play on a sports team. When the holocaust took place, they were ripped from all of those privileges in a blink of an eye. To shed some perspective, one point five million to two million children were murdered, one million of them being jews. The rest consisted of Polish, Romani, and children with any different ethnicity or disability. Most were killed the second they step foot on a camp, others over the age of twelve …show more content…
Although many believe that the children of a tragedy were the ones to get the best treatment, the Holocaust reveals that children were in fact the ones most traumatized and strained mentally. This can be solved with awareness of child development and providing proper therapeutic sessions. The idea of children’s growth being affected negatively as seen through traumatic events that were experienced in their youth followed by solutions as how to either prevent or help mend the effects of the Holocaust.
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A child always starts with a blank slate, therefore every positive or negative thing they see imprints upon them. It’s those developing years that help to mold one’s personality and judgement. But, imagine those years being taken from someone, their dad never had a chance to teach them how to ride a bike or that boys have cooties. These everyday lessons, never taking place, because they were ripped from their home in 1943. The Holocaust affected many people, but in particular the upcoming generations/children. In a photo taken shortly after January 27, 1945, one can see a condensed pile of children’s clothes. These clothes were taken off their