LibGuides: The Holocaust: Children of the Holocaust

Holocaust Encyclopedia

Children were especially vulnerable during the Holocaust.

Nazi Germany and its collaborators killed about 1.5 million Jewish children and tens of thousands of Romani (Gypsy) children, 5,000–7,000 German children with physical and mental disabilities living in institutions, as well as many Polish children and children residing in the German-occupied Soviet Union. Jewish and non-Jewish adolescents (13–18 years old) had a greater chance of survival, as they could be used for forced labor...continue reading...

Podcast - Children of the Holocaust

The Holocaust Orphans

Historian Rebecca Clifford tells the stories of child survivors of the Holocaust who made their way to Britain after the war.

Video - Children of the Holocaust

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Website articles regarding Children and the Holocaust:

The fate of the children - Auschwitz-Berkenau Museum
The fate of child and youth prisoners was no different in principle from that of adults (with the exception of the children in the family camps). Just like adults, they suffered from hunger and cold, were used as laborers, and were punished, put to death, and used as subjects in criminal experiments by SS doctors.
Children born in Auschwitz - Auschwitz-Berkenau Museum
In the early period of the existence of the women’s camp, children born there were put to death, regardless of their ethnicity, without being entered in the camp records.
Children in the Holocaust - The National Holocaust Center
Narratives about the persecution of children during the Holocaust have generally received little attention compared to other more adult narratives of the Holocaust, but over the past two decades more and more work has focused on the stories of childhood during this period.
The 'British Schindler' who saved 669 children from the Nazis - History Extra
Nicholas Winton always claimed he “wasn’t heroic” yet it was down to this British Schindler's business sense and compassion that 669 children were swept out of Prague to safety before the Nazis arrived.