Effects of War on Children: Comparing Experiences of Children During the Holocaust and Children Affected by the War on Terrorism

Many Jewish people were persecuted and killed during the Holocaust. “They were not allowed to go to most public areas such as the park” (Children and the Holocaust) “ and the Jewish children weren’t allowed to go to the same school with the other German children” (International Institute for Holocaust Research). Many families tried to leave and escape before it became dangerous for Jews to live in German occupied countries, but “lack of money and strict immigration control caused them not to be able to” (Children and the Holocaust). “Some of the lucky families were able to find a hiding place” (International Institute for Holocaust Research), or escape before the Holocaust, but some of the other “families that could not get away were sent to the ghettos or killing camps” (Children

Children also went through the trauma of experiencing things that normal childhoods do not include. Essentially, they lost their childhood because of the separation from their families. Children are meant to live care-free lives of happiness; those in the Holocaust, instead, endured lives of watching death, illness, suffering, and hatred. These children were also exposed to extreme emotions such as hatred, envy, and depression. Many did not understand why their people, and not others, had to lose so much, including friendships (Lukas, 138 Kindle).

After the start of World War II, Adolf Hitler (1889-1945), the chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945, made a policy that came to be known as the “Final Solution. ”Hitler was determined to isolate Jews in Germany. As stated in the article, "The murder of six million Jewish men, women and children during the Second World War was a crime of unprecedented and unparalleled bestiality"(The Holocaust: The Jewish Tragedy). Another quote stated that, “Between 1933 and 1945, the Nazi regime created nearly 20,000 concentration camps.

Beginning in the year 1933, life became difficult for all non-Aryans living in Europe. That was the year Adolf Hitler became the chancellor of Germany. His anti-Semitic principles served as the basis of the Nazi party and its supporters. Although their ideas were opposed by many, the Nazis managed to carry out The Final Solution with the goal of ridding Europe of Jews, gypsies, Soviets, and homosexuals. One prominent figure was Heinrich Himmler who constructed the “Final Solution”: a written document that stated the steps needed to be taken in order to establish a pure Aryan race. This “solution” consisted of isolating Jews in ghettos, sending non-Aryans to concentration and extermination camps, and forcing them to undergo starvation, thirst, shootings, and extended suffering. The various steps within this document each served a different purpose and implemented a new kind of suffering upon the prisoners. New family roles were established and new outlooks on life and religion were brought about due to the scares they experienced. The Holocaust transformed the lives of many through the daily hardships in its ghettos, concentration and extermination camps, and demolished post-war Europe.

For their protection, children were being sent away by their families to go into hiding and they very rarely knew who they were staying with. They were being taken in by strangers and had no idea what was going to happen to their other family. The stress of not knowing if their parents or siblings were even alive was something that they thought about constantly and they always had the agonizing fear that they would get caught and killed. (Hidden Children of the Holocaust).

Out of six million Jews killed in the Holocaust, over a million and a half of these were children. Only six to eleven percent of Europe’s prewar Jewish population of children survived, as compared with thirty-three percent of the adults. During World War II, Jewish children were a target for being deported to death or concentration camps because of their reputation as unfit to work. Nazi’s took Jewish children from their families because they did not represent the Aryan child. Children, usually under the age of 12, were thought of as unable to work and Jewish people were viewed as enemies. Children did not often survive the concentration camps. One of these camps was Auschwitz-Birkenau, where only 180 children survived. Children who survived were normally male teenagers who faked their ages and claimed to have skills for work. The non-Jewish children were put into Hitler Youth programs to learn how to be a true Nazi and live in a certain way. The Jewish children were sent to death camps or work camps until they starved or were put into gas chambers, where they perished. Over a million and a half children were murdered during the Holocaust because of their inability to work and because the Nazis wanted to cut off the bloodline of all Jewish people, in order to carry out their final solution. Jewish children in World War II were targeted, hidden, and murdered and some took on different skills and identities in order to have a chance of survival.

Later on, he came to greater power and democracy was taken away in Germany. Hitler strongly believed in racial “purity” and thought that Jews weren’t a religious group but the poisonous “race”. Due to his principle many Jewish people were mistreated and humiliated. However, not only were Jews were persecuted but Gypsies, homosexuals, and Jehovah’s Witnesses also were because of their beliefs and race. In the late 1930s, the war began with Hitler destroying the Polish Army and decided to enslave Polish people. The Nazis saw them as a lower human being. Then they began to destroy Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals, and Jehovah’s Witnesses one by one. The Nazis sent them to concentration camps, executed those who were arrogant, imprisoned Jews, kidnapped children, killing squads shot more than a million Jews and hundreds of thousands of innocent people, and overcrowded them on trains or prisons which led to spreading disease, lack of air, and starvation. However, there were also rescues during the Holocaust and countries saved tens of thousands of Jews and Poles. At last, the Holocaust ended on May 8th, 1945. Near the last days of war, Hitler committed suicide

By the end of WWII the Nazis had taken the lives of 6 million Jews, over half were children (“Children’s Diaries”). The decade of the 40’s there were many things that went on like WWII and the United States dropped two atomic bombs on Japan that brought an end to the Pacific side war. The children of the Holocaust were mistreated and used for experiments. The Holocaust is an important part of history and knowing what happened while Hitler was in power in Germany, but also a longlife reminder of those who survived during it.

Women and children in the holocaust were different than the men’s for various reasons. The men had a greater chance of survival over the women because they were more often deemed “fit to work”. Also the Nazi’s viewed women as the ones who will give birth to the next generation of Jews so they exterminated them more often to maintain their ideology of a “pure Aryan world”. Women were also raped by the Nazis and they were also forced to work in brothels -which were 500 in number. At the beginning of the Nazi rule, 1933, Jewish children were limited to go to German schools. The children were made fun of in schools by other classmates and taught in biology they they were “racially inferior”. Disabled children were taken from their parents, labeled

No one can ignore this bloody war, but many don't stop to think of how it affects the smallest of us, the next generation, the children. While many children are not in the middle of the battles they are still affected greatly. Children’s education, holidays and ways of life are changing in this war.

The Nazis, who came to power in Germany in January 1933, believed that Germans were "racially superior" and that the Jews, considered "inferior," were a major risk to the Germans. They came up with a plan called “The Final Solution” to murder all the Jews in Europe. It all began with their leader, Adolf

Adolf Hitler came to power over Germany in January of 1933. He hated Jews and blamed them for everything bad that had ever happened to Germany. Hitler’s goal in life was to eliminate the Jewish population. With his rise to power in Germany, he would put into action his plan of elimination. This is not only why German Jews were the main target of the Holocaust, but why they were a large part of the years before, during, and after the Holocaust. Hitler’s “final solution” almost eliminated the Jewish population in Europe during World War II. At the end of the war and along with his suicide, the Jewish population would survive the horror known as the Holocaust and the Jews would eventually find their way back to their homeland of Israel

Anne Frank Anne Frank was a Jewish girl that lived during World War II. She told her tales about living during the Holocaust through her diary and now she is recognized as a symbol of goodness all around the world. I think the world sees her as that because of how she remained happy, hopeful, and that she was a person that you could relate to. When Anne Frank went into hiding, she remained a positive and happy girl even with what was going outside of the Secret Annexe. She lived a happy and normal life under the Annexe with her family.

Who was Anne Frank? She was a young girl that went through a tough time. Her diary was a way of getting out of everything around her. She put her feelings into words not only impacting her but others around the world. Anne Frank will never be forgotten for her remarkable childhood, for her inspirational diary ,and her fate at the

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