couldn't go to public playgrounds or recreational facilities
faced starvation, illness, brutal labor, insecurity, isolation, shrinking horizons, vulnerability, fear and danger
exposed to malnutrition, disease, overcrowding, exposure and death
had medical experiments and suffered permanent physical damage
created diaries, poems and drawings while in ghettos and concentration camps
older children sent to work as slaves
only ate small amounts of food
smuggled food into ghettos
suffered emotionally from horrible conditions they witnessed and endured
were persecuted, arrested and deported no matter their age
Liz Hornberger
*Living conditions*
-camp conditions were horrible
-children had nothing to eat
-drank contaminated water
-suffered separation from family
-stripped of their clothes upon arrival
-poor protection from the elements
-insufficient shelter
*Labor*
-hard labor was enforced on children that were old enough and physically fit
-labor varied from electrical to carrying large stone slabs for construction to burying the dead
-once the children were unable to work they were killed
-to ease emotional pain from separation they became friends with fellow inmates
*Punishments*
-some children were forced to kneel for hours with their faces towards the sun and a rock on their head or bricks in hands
-put in a bunker for days (room with out windows)
-humiliation: signs on the children
-Iined up and beat
-line up and every tenth person would be shot
-officers hung corpses from the ceiling to keep inmates fearful
*Children in hiding*
-escaped Nazis wrath by: hiding in concealed closets, holes and sometimes even sewers
-hid identities to keep hidden
-some children worked and moved from town to town
-most children had identification problems after the war
-Kindertransport was a program that took children to safety in Great Britain
*Hitler Youth*
-groups of German children to serve in the Nazis party and to fight in wars
*Schools*
-German teachers humiliated the Jewish children by pointing out their differences
-soon the children lost German friends and lost their right to go to school
-the Germans used the schools as a tool to make the Jewish racially inferior
*Programs*
-Gestapo and Inferior ministries- sterilized the handicapped, Afro-Germans,and Gypsies
*Liberation*
-few children survived
Sarah Poorman Children Of the Holocaust
- both Jewish and non-Jewish were in Europe
- 1- those killed immeadiately on arrival in concentration and in killing centers 2- those killed shortly after birth(870 infants born in Ravensbruck concentration camp, largely to Jewish and Gypsy women) 3- those few born in ghettos and camps and surviving 4- children above the age of 10 utilized as prisoners, laborers, and subjects for Nazi medical experiments.
-one million Jewish boys and girls were murdered under Nazi rule in Germany and Europe
-only a fraction of European Jewish children survived the Holocaust.
- the statistics of children that died will never be known.
-1.2 million Jewish children, tens of thousands of Gypsy children, thousands of handicapped children were murdered.
- seperated into groups by age: 1-infants and toddlers up to age 6 2- young children ages 7 to 12 3- adolescents 13-18 years old.
Children in the Ghettos
- 800 ghettos were formed by the Nazi Germany in eastern Europe to isolate and control Jew Pop.
- many children and babies died in these ghettos due to lack of food, clothing, and shelter.
- also because of unsanitary and over croweded conditions that spread disease.
-children in the ghettos were considered useless for productive activity by the Nazis.
- nearly 200 children from Warsaw Ghetto were killed on the transport to Treblinka which is an extermination camp.
-Jewish children were the first victims when the Germans went to shoot them or send them to an extermination camp.
- Auschwitz and other extermination camps children were sent to their deaths in poison gas chambers.
- # of children mostly twins were used in Nazi pseudoscientific medical experiments and suffered permanent damage.
-many Jewish children learned how to survive
-many youth movements were involved in resistance activities and participated in escapes to join partisan fighters.
-smuggled food into the ghettos
-The Two Hidings
- Physical Hiding Location
children were most often not told about the hiding places in advance b.c it was a secret
Daily Life
woke up knowing to remain quiet, move slowly(rain or shine), and not allowed to leave the confinement of the hiding place.
go months or even years without seeing daylight
parents would make children do indoor exercises and stretches to keep thier muscles active
couldn't talk, laugh, walk, flush the toilet(dump chamber pots)
keep busy- read books(sometimes over and over again), draw, listen to adults talking, play with imaginary friends, etc.
Fear
bunkers(hiding places within ghettos) Nazi capture was very great.
babies could not be kept from crying-young mothers often had to make a decision
Food and Water
children would eat paper, chew on their clothing, etc. when the supplies went low
most likely to catch disease or lice that went around
Sickness and Death
suffered through many maladies that could have tempered if not controlled by contemporary medicine
Arrest and Deportation
children spread the word about their hiding places and it goes around to the Nazis.
all children and adults in hiding places were sent to deportation camps.
- Identity Hiding
-lived within a society but took on a different name and identity in an attempt to hide thier Jewish ancestory
-some who hid their identities had varities of expirence and lived amoung various sitiuations.
-Nazi looked for Jews to deport-children attempted to hide that fact that they were Jewish(a large responsibility) Varied Experiences
stayed with their parents or mothers
lived amoung Gentiles with the host not knowing their true identity
left alone in covents or amoung families
wandered from village to village as a farmhand
Children That Could Hide Their Identities
children were choosen to hide with people by the way they act
people pick kids that they thought were a least risk to them
young children and young girls were most easily placed
youth was favored b.c the child's past was short which didnt greatly guide their identity
easily adapted to their new homes
many young boys that were forced to hide their identities were to dress up as girls
they lost their names and background also their gender
Children of the Holocaust
Janell B.
Kailyn Hoke
Liz Hornberger
*Living conditions*
-camp conditions were horrible
-children had nothing to eat
-drank contaminated water
-suffered separation from family
-stripped of their clothes upon arrival
-poor protection from the elements
-insufficient shelter
*Labor*
-hard labor was enforced on children that were old enough and physically fit
-labor varied from electrical to carrying large stone slabs for construction to burying the dead
-once the children were unable to work they were killed
-to ease emotional pain from separation they became friends with fellow inmates
*Punishments*
-some children were forced to kneel for hours with their faces towards the sun and a rock on their head or bricks in hands
-put in a bunker for days (room with out windows)
-humiliation: signs on the children
-Iined up and beat
-line up and every tenth person would be shot
-officers hung corpses from the ceiling to keep inmates fearful
*Children in hiding*
-escaped Nazis wrath by: hiding in concealed closets, holes and sometimes even sewers
-hid identities to keep hidden
-some children worked and moved from town to town
-most children had identification problems after the war
-Kindertransport was a program that took children to safety in Great Britain
*Hitler Youth*
-groups of German children to serve in the Nazis party and to fight in wars
*Schools*
-German teachers humiliated the Jewish children by pointing out their differences
-soon the children lost German friends and lost their right to go to school
-the Germans used the schools as a tool to make the Jewish racially inferior
*Programs*
-Gestapo and Inferior ministries- sterilized the handicapped, Afro-Germans,and Gypsies
*Liberation*
-few children survived
Sarah Poorman
Children Of the Holocaust
- both Jewish and non-Jewish were in Europe
- 1- those killed immeadiately on arrival in concentration and in killing centers 2- those killed shortly after birth(870 infants born in Ravensbruck concentration camp, largely to Jewish and Gypsy women) 3- those few born in ghettos and camps and surviving 4- children above the age of 10 utilized as prisoners, laborers, and subjects for Nazi medical experiments.
-one million Jewish boys and girls were murdered under Nazi rule in Germany and Europe
-only a fraction of European Jewish children survived the Holocaust.
- the statistics of children that died will never be known.
-1.2 million Jewish children, tens of thousands of Gypsy children, thousands of handicapped children were murdered.
- seperated into groups by age: 1-infants and toddlers up to age 6 2- young children ages 7 to 12 3- adolescents 13-18 years old.
Children in the Ghettos
- 800 ghettos were formed by the Nazi Germany in eastern Europe to isolate and control Jew Pop.
- many children and babies died in these ghettos due to lack of food, clothing, and shelter.
- also because of unsanitary and over croweded conditions that spread disease.
-children in the ghettos were considered useless for productive activity by the Nazis.
- nearly 200 children from Warsaw Ghetto were killed on the transport to Treblinka which is an extermination camp.
-Jewish children were the first victims when the Germans went to shoot them or send them to an extermination camp.
- Auschwitz and other extermination camps children were sent to their deaths in poison gas chambers.
- # of children mostly twins were used in Nazi pseudoscientific medical experiments and suffered permanent damage.
-many Jewish children learned how to survive
-many youth movements were involved in resistance activities and participated in escapes to join partisan fighters.
-smuggled food into the ghettos
-The Two Hidings
- Physical Hiding
Location
- children were most often not told about the hiding places in advance b.c it was a secret
Daily Life- woke up knowing to remain quiet, move slowly(rain or shine), and not allowed to leave the confinement of the hiding place.
- go months or even years without seeing daylight
- parents would make children do indoor exercises and stretches to keep thier muscles active
- couldn't talk, laugh, walk, flush the toilet(dump chamber pots)
- keep busy- read books(sometimes over and over again), draw, listen to adults talking, play with imaginary friends, etc.
Fear- bunkers(hiding places within ghettos) Nazi capture was very great.
- babies could not be kept from crying-young mothers often had to make a decision
Food and Water- children would eat paper, chew on their clothing, etc. when the supplies went low
- most likely to catch disease or lice that went around
Sickness and Death- suffered through many maladies that could have tempered if not controlled by contemporary medicine
Arrest and Deportation- children spread the word about their hiding places and it goes around to the Nazis.
- all children and adults in hiding places were sent to deportation camps.
- Identity Hiding-lived within a society but took on a different name and identity in an attempt to hide thier Jewish ancestory
-some who hid their identities had varities of expirence and lived amoung various sitiuations.
-Nazi looked for Jews to deport-children attempted to hide that fact that they were Jewish(a large responsibility)
Varied Experiences
- stayed with their parents or mothers
- lived amoung Gentiles with the host not knowing their true identity
- left alone in covents or amoung families
- wandered from village to village as a farmhand
Children That Could Hide Their Identities