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Holocaust Hidden Children Essay

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Thesis: Jews living under Nazi control lead to, change in the lives of families, children going into hiding alone, and Jewish resistance.

“Sharing Stories Inspiring Change.” Jewish Women's Archive,jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/family-during-holocaust. Accessed 5 Apr. 2017.
Annotation: Under Nazi rule, western Europe Jews live in fear, as well as the threat of being exterminated. This made life horrible to the point of almost unbearable. A family was hard to keep normal when you might be deported. As a result, of all the Jewish discrimination, a shortage of food meant that the Jews would receive little to no food whatsoever. Possibilities of living off one's earnings and that of family members and Jewish organizations depleted rapidly. Families who fled often resulted in not being able to stay with each other and families collapsed as they separated. Being separated was inevitable after deportation and little could be done to help the families. As families tried to smuggle children out of ghettos for their safety, separations were …show more content…

American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise, n.d. Web. 6 Apr. 2017. .
Annotation: Jewish Children suffered greatly during the Holocaust. Separation, false papers, taking on a different religion, and death was normal for Jewish children when the Nazis invaded. Most of the time children had to hide without parents or family to be with them, the kids had to be kept in attics and cellars, “where they had to keep quiet, even motionless, for hours on end.” (paragraph 8).
Some had to hide everything, some boys, to avoid being caught that they were circumcised, had to change their gender. Life was never easy during or after the war. Some children were never found by their families and some rescuers refused to give back the children they saved.
"Jewish Resistance." United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, n.d. Web. 7 Apr. 2017.

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