Remembering: The Holocaust
Featured Article: Families and children during the Holocaust, written by Skyler Gunther Â
ISSUE #296
MAY 1 1945
Remembering the Holocaust Featured Article! Written by Skyler Gunther F block Families and Children during the Holocaust 17 million people died during the holocaust and lots were moved away from their family. Many Jews suffered from the Nazis and concentration camps. The holocaust happened during WWII. Hitler was named Chancellor of Germany in 1933. In 1941, the Nazis declared war on America. In the photo above, you see one of the The Holocaust was a terrible concentration camps for the Jewish. traumatizing thing. Families were broken up, children were left parentless and relocated, and millions died because of Hitler and WWII.
Families were broken up because of the Nazis, people were taken from their homes in the night. Nazis would come and take family members away to concentration camps. The Nazis would arrest Jews for random things, just like for being Jewish, anywhere, they would come to your house and take you, or arrest you on the streets or in a store. Nazis would take their captives to to concentration camps, where they usually died. In concentration camps, Jews were separated by gender, so if your family member in the other section died, you wouldn’t have any way to know. At the night, Nazis would come up to your house, and check if you’re a Jew, and if you were, you were taken to a concentration camp. They wouldn’t even let you pack your things to bring. “The morning after the pogroms 30,000 German Jewish men were arrested for the "crime" of being Jewish and sent to concentration camps, where hundreds of them 1
JUNE 5, 2017 perished.” This quote shows that Jewish men were arrested, just for being Jewish, because being Jewish was a so called crime. Kids would be relocated and families weren’t informed where they would go. The kids would be placed in foster care and go to foster houses, where they forgot about their parents and their religion.
When Nazis took parents away to concentration camps, they would deport/relocate the kids to other parts of the world. Kids were deported to all over the world to foster parents. When reunited with their real families, they weren’t happy, the kids IN THIS PHOTO, YOU CAN SEE JEWISH FAMILIES sometimes tried to run away from their real BEING ARRESTED, SHORTLY AFTER, THEY WERE families, to their foster ones. “For the children who PROBABLY TAKEN TO A CONCENTRATION CAMP. had to leave their parents behind, the emotional pangs of separation were constant and the worries many.” When the children reunited with their parents, they didn’t want anything to do with their parents, this hit parents hard.Little kids forgot or didn’t know their real names, so their foster parents gave them new ones. This was really bad for the kids and parents because the kids didn’t recognize the name their parents called them and what they were named as a baby. Since the kids grew up with their foster parents, they considered their real parents as strangers, and their foster as their real ones. The kids were with their foster parents for so long they actually thought they were they’re real parents. Some kids didn’t even have parents after the war ended, their parents were killed in the holocaust. Parents has to “give The photo above is a map of where the Holocaust away” their kids. They were forced to happened and concentration camps and extermination give their kids to strangers, they camps sometimes told the kids it was distance family members. “I still see very clearly how he walked out of our sight at the hand of the “aunt”... our feelings of ultimate powerlessness… My wife cried for days without stop. We felt utterly bereaved.” Kids being taken away from their 2
parents didn’t just affect the parents. The kids thought they were being given away by their parents because they were bad kids. This was one of the reasons the kids didn’t like the reunion with their parents. If the parents children were found, they sometimes didn’t have any proof that the child was theirs, and they wouldn’t recognize them because they wouldn’t have seen them for around 2 or 3 years. This shows that even though being taken away from your parents to live with someone else, was just as crippling as your child dying.
“I still see very clearly how he walked out of our sight at the hand of the “aunt”... our feelings of ultimate powerlessness… My wife cried for days”
Millions of Jewish parents, kids and others were murdered in the Holocaust. In concentration camps, there was murder and death everywhere. When mothers, children, and elderly got off the train entering the concentration camp, they were usually immediately sent to the gas chambers to suffer and die a quick death. Men and boys were usually sent to the camp. When you were sent to concentration camps, you were usually taken from your home at night, or arrested in the streets for a crime; being a Jew. You were put into a train packed with lots of other families. “From as early as early as 1934, concentration camp commandants used prisoners as forced laborers for SS construction projects such as the construction or expansion of the camps themselves.” In concentration camps, so many bad things went on in there. There were things called killing centers, that’s where all of the gas chambers where and where people died. Jews were abused, tortured, and killed. They were forced to do labor and build onto the concentration camps. ‘To facilitate the "Final Solution" (the genocide or mass destruction of the Jews), the Nazis established killing centers in Poland, the country with the largest Jewish population. The killing centers were designed for efficient mass murder.’ From the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, It gives lots of information about concentration camps, and how millions died. “Millions of people were imprisoned and abused in the various types of Nazi camps. Under SS management, the Germans and their collaborators murdered 3
more than three million Jews in the killing centers alone. Only a small fraction of those imprisoned in Nazi camps survived.” There were more than 10 million in all who died, and not all of them were Jews. Up to 6 million Jews died. “Jews: up to 6 million Soviet civilians: around 7 million (including 1.3 Soviet Jewish civilians, who are included the 6 million figure for Jews) Soviet prisoners of war: around 3 million Facts about the (including about 50,000 Jewish soldiers)” This evidence Holocaust: Over 1.1 supports my analysis because it informs you how many people died and how many Jews. So many innocent people died million children died during the holocaust, so many suffered in concentration during the Holocaust! camps.
Young children were particularly targeted by the Nazis to be murdered during the Holocaust.
The Holocaust was a terrible traumatizing thing. Families were broken up, children were left parentless and relocated, and millions died because of Hitler and WWII.
Nazi’s has arrested people for being jewish, because it was “crime.” Parents were forced to hand their children away, to complete strangers and never know when they would see them again, if they even would, and millions of innocent people, jewish or sometimes not, died from the holocaust. Genocides happen all over, where millions, or thousands die because one or more people believe they aren’t equal and should be dead. This happened in the Rwandan genocide also, and lots of other genocides.
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