Children During The Holocaust

During the Holocaust many many children were killed. They killed over a million Jewish children, children with physical and mental disabilities that were living in institutions, Polish children, and children residing in the occupied Soviet Union. In the Ghettos children died of starvation, exposure, not having clothes nor shelter. The German authorities were indifferent to this mass death, they considered the younger ghetto children to be "unproductive" and "hence". They generally selected them, illness and disabled, for the first deportations to killing centers, or as the first victims led to mas graves to be shot. When groups of Jews arrived at killing centers the majority of children were sent directly to gas chambers. Children in villages who occupied Soviet Union were killed with their parents in concentration camps. After the surrender of Nazi Germany refugees searched throughout Europe for missing children. Many surviving Jewish children fled eastern Europe as part of the mass exodus to the western zones of occupied Germany.

"Holocaust History." Children during the Holocaust. N.p., 11 May 2012. Web. 15 Jan. 2013.