Children of War

This is how the holocaust started

In 1933 in Poland the holocaust began. Where the Germans imprisoned many Jews. Germans deported jews from all over Europe to these "ghettos."

The Nazis established special mobile killing squads called “Einsatzgruppen” who were attached to the German armed forces and their only objective was to murder all Jews.

This they did with unrelenting efficiency, but shooting thousands of men, women, and children at close range every day. Day after day.

The Germans then set up special concentration camps. One for men, one for women and one for children.

Over 1 million children died during the holocaust.

Plucked from their homes and stripped of their childhoods.

Homeless, orphaned children often witnessed their mothers, fathers, siblings, families murdered by starvation, illness, brutal labour, until confined to the gas chambers. Children that were born in the camps were killed instantly.

JEWISH AID AND RESCUE

The rescue of children began even before the onset of World War II.  The Youth Aliyah was a movement group that rescued and brought more than 14000 to Palestine and Britain between 1933 and 1945.

Another movement group known as movement for the Care of Children rescued and brought more than 10000 children between 1938 and 1939. All children were without parents so the operation was known as Kindertransport.

Youth Aliyah Child Rescue

Youth Aliyah has become an amazing child rescue organization over an amazing 80 years.

They have over 2500 children who have made Youth Aliyah a home. Since the rescue in WWII the rescue of children from neglect, abuse, families not able to cope, orphans, or simply cause their parents could not integrate into society. They have 6 youth villages, schools dorms, clubhouses and playgrounds.

Kindertransport

Association of Jewish Refugees

The Kindertransport known now as the KT-AJR provides social welfare and to the victims of WWII. With the support provided by their social services department,  the AJR has a nationwide network of regional groups offering members an opportunity to socialize and enjoy entertainment in their area. They can also obtain assistance from volunteers on welfare rights and Holocaust reparations.

The KT-AJR also has a Childs survivors Association which is a self-support group for child survivors of the Holocaust and their partners. It includes the children who survived in ghettos, in hiding, on the run and in camps. They offer emotional support an started d run a series of social activities through the year.

My Interpretation on The Holocaust

In WWII the Germans walked threw countries and murdered millions of innocent men, women and children because Hitler believed they were a lesser evolved people and believed that they stole victory in WWI.

Hitler and the Nazis also thought that people could be divided into different races and that there was a struggle going on between these different races. According to the Nazis the ‘Aryan race’ was the best and strongest race. Jews were of another inferior race. In fact so inferior that they were not considered to be ‘people’ by the Nazis.

Hitler ravage children without question or consequences.  Beat, raped and murdered woman. starved, made the men over work themselves till they were too sick to even stand. And when they were done with them they'd send them all to different concentration camps and ready them for the deadly gases to kill them.

Children suffered the most as they were ripped from their families and torn of being a child. They had sit back and watch as the soldiers brutally tortured and murdered their families and sent them to the camps to die.

Children back then were lucky if they made friends or allowed to get a glimpse of family member through fences, or passing by.

Some Jewish families found shelter to hide under floors, in attics, secret rooms, the woods, etc. But sometimes they were found out and murdered on the spot along with those who were helping them no matter whether they were German or not.

This one family even hid in a cave.

Its absolutely astonishing how brave some Jews were to save themselves and their partners and children. The amazing and heartbreaking stories of those who survived the holocaust and are able to tell their side of the horror.