Children of the

HolocaustBy: Cindia Gonzalez

It was estimated that about 1.5 million children were murdered in the holocaust.

Children were separated by their age groups like:

1. Infants and toddlers up to 6 years old 2. Children from 7 to 12 years old

3. Adolescents from 13 to 18 years old

Children that who were older had a better chance of survival.

The first law which affected Jewish students was the “Law against Overcrowding in German schools and universities” on April 25, 1933.

Children banned from using public recreational facilities like playgrounds.

Affects During the Holocaust

*Children were exposed to many things like:

-Malnutrition, disease, exposure, and early death

On July 1933 the Law to Prevent Offspring with Hereditary Defects was a way to achieve a biologically homogeneous society for the Nazi.

Handicapped children were vulnerable to sterilization prior to 1939

The beginning of the killing of disabled children was the start of the euthanasia program which continued through out the war.

About 5,000 children were killed because of the euthanasia program

The children faced trauma, starvation, illness, brutal labor like others, and other hardships until they were taken to the gas chambers

There were four basic patters the children died like:being killed immediately after arriving to a concentration camp or centers in gas chambers, killed after birth, born in secret in ghettos and surviving, used as laborers, or medical experiments.

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Stella KlingerovaBorn December 14, 1927 in Prague, Czechoslovakia

On March 1939 , she was 11 year old when Germans occupied Prague, Czechoslovakia

Gustav, her father was a businessman, Marie Klinger, her mother stayed at home and took care of her.

By October 1941 to March 1945, Jews were deported by Germans to concentration camps. Stella and her parents were deported in early 1942 to the Theresienstadt ghetto in Czechoslovakia.

On April 1942 Stella and her parents were “selected” and deported to Auschwitz death camp in Poland.

Once they arrived they were murdered by the gas chambers.

Stella was 14 years old when she passed

Krystyna Chiger

Krystyna was 7 years old

Born around 1940

Her father discovered that there would be a liquidation of the Ghetto so they hid in the cellar.

They then headed to the sewers afterwards and had 20 others with them

Polish sewer workers brought them food everyday and helped them hide if other sewer workers found them.

They lived in the sewers for 14 months

Alexander KimelHe was born a small town, Podhajce, in Galizia

He and others were to work in the ghettos for extra food.

Alexander and Willy a worker his age fled and found shelter in a storage room when the Germans began shooting some Jews in the ghetto

They both survived and returned to the ghetto afterwards

The ones still alive were to take the bodies and throw them in a hole

He then found his family alive.

He never knew what it was to be in a concentration camp.

18 FactsAbout 1.5 million children were killed during the Holocaust.

Children were separated by their age groups.

On July 1933 the Law to Prevent Offspring with Hereditary Defects was achieved.

Older children had a better chance of surviving.

On April 25, 1933, law against Overcrowding in German schools and universities was passed.

Children exposed to diseases, malnutrition, exposure and early death.

In 1939, handicapped children were vulnerable to sterilization.

The euthanasia program was responsible for killing about 5,000 children.

Children faced trauma, starvation, illness, brutal labor like others, and other hardships until they were taken to the gas chambers

Children either died right away in gas chambers, were experiments, killed at birth, laborers, or born in ghettos and surviving.

Stella Klingerova was born on December 14, 1927 in Prague, Czechoslovakia.

By October 1941 to March 1945, Jews were deported by Germans to concentration camps.

Stella Klingerova and her family were killed in the gas chambers.

Krystyna Chiger was seven years old when they hid in th

Krystyna Chiger, her family and others hid in the swearers.

Krystyna Chiger, family and the ones who survived lived in the swearers for 14 mounths.

Alexander Kimel was born a small town, Podhajce, in Galizia.

Alexander never knew what it was to be in a concentration camp.

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