The Germans and their collaborators killed as many as 1.5 million children, including over a million Jewish children and tens of thousands of Roman (Gypsy) children (website #1), German children with physical and mental disabilities living in institutions, Polish children, and children residing in the occupied Soviet Union. The chances for survival for Jewish and some non-Jewish adolescents (13-18 years old) were greater, as they could be deployed at forced labor. (website #1)
Only recently has the historiography of the Shao begun to focus on the issue of the fate of Jewish children, raising many important and interesting questions. What was the Nazi policy toward children? What was the impact of anti-Jewish legislation on Jewish children? (website #2) How did Jewish communities and institutions cope with the effects of Nazi policy on children? How did families rear their children at a time of increasing difficulties and dangers and how did adults view Jewish children during the different stages of the Nazi anti-Semitic policies? (website#2)
home of the children under threat spent years hiding from the Nazi authorities - either by hiding physically in barns, attics and cellars, or by taking on false identities. There are a few examples of resistance movements working to move children to safety. For example, (website #2) the Belgium priest, Joseph André, worked with the Comity de Défense des Juifs to save hundreds of Jewish children by finding them hiding places in convents, monasteries and private homes.
By the end of the war only a few thousand Jewish children had survived the camps. (website #3)
Only recently has the historiography of the Shao begun to focus on the issue of the fate of Jewish children, raising many important and interesting questions. What was the Nazi policy toward children? What was the impact of anti-Jewish legislation on Jewish children? (website #2) How did Jewish communities and institutions cope with the effects of Nazi policy on children? How did families rear their children at a time of increasing difficulties and dangers and how did adults view Jewish children during the different stages of the Nazi anti-Semitic policies? (website#2)
home of the children under threat spent years hiding from the Nazi authorities - either by hiding physically in barns, attics and cellars, or by taking on false identities. There are a few examples of resistance movements working to move children to safety. For example, (website #2) the Belgium priest, Joseph André, worked with the Comity de Défense des Juifs to save hundreds of Jewish children by finding them hiding places in convents, monasteries and private homes.
By the end of the war only a few thousand Jewish children had survived the camps. (website #3)