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Lest We Forget - The Children of the Holocaust

Updated on Jan 28, 2019. Originally added on Jan 26, 2018 by Kathy Pinna

The Holocaust led by Adolf Hitler during World War 2 claimed the lives of millions. The Holocaust photo collection contains the images of approximately 3,000 children whose lives were taken from them.

Many of these images are shared by community member Alyssa McIntosh who works tirelessly to make sure that we never forget the young victims.

See just some of these young faces of those who lost their lives below...it's heartbreaking. We'll never know what talent was lost, what they would have become, and what they would have added to our lives.

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Remembering the Children's Faces Lost to the Holocaust

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Czech Republic

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Murdered at Auschwitz Death Camp on August 29, 1944, age 5.

Latvia

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Killed in a mass grave at Riga, Latvia on October 25, 1941 at ages 4 & 3.

Belguim

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Murdered at Auschwitz Death Camp on September 14, 1942 at age 5.

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Germany

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He had microcephaly and was killed by an overdose of morphine.

Belgium

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Deported to Auschwitz Death Camp then murdered on August 17, 1942 at age 5.

Belgium

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Murdered at Auschwitz Death Camp on September 1942 at age 4.

Germany

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Had seizures and difficulty speaking. Died of starvation on May 16, 1945 at age 9.

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Belgium

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Deported to Auschwitz then murdered 5 years later on December 10th at age 7.

Germany

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Murdered on November 20, 1941 at age 3 years.

Belgium

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Born 1936, killed 1944 Auschwitz

Germany

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Deported to Auschwitz Death Camp then murdered 4 years later at age 5 years.

Romania

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Murdered at Bershad camp in Ukraine in 1943 at age 4.

Germany

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Transferred to the "Heil- und Pflegeanstalt Eichberg" & was killed by a medical experiment on October 6, 1943 at age 4. (He had difficulty speaking and hearing and couldn't walk.)

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Romania

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Murdered at Odessa, Ukraine in 1941 at age 5.

Italy

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Deported to Auschwitz Death Camp on October 18, 1943 with his mother and sister Mara (3) and brother Mario (2) then murdered 5 days later at age 5.

France

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Born 1933, killed 1942 Auschwitz

Germany

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Murdered at Auschwitz Death Camp on October 31, 1944 at age 7.

France

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Born 1939, killed 1943 Auschwitz

Romania

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Murdered at Auschwitz Death camp in 1944 at age 1 year.

Germany

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Diagnosed with a debility, murdered in the gas chamber on November 1, 1943 at age 5.

Netherlands

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Born 1941, killed 1943 Sobibor

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Born 1938, killed 1942 Auschwitz

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Born 1936, killed 1942 Auschwitz

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Murdered in Auschwitz on Jul. 23, 1942

Paris

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Killed age 7, Auschwitz

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Killed age 12, Auschwitz

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Killed age 6, Oswiecim

Belgium

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Killed age 5, Auschwitz

Netherlands

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Killed at 4 mos, Auschwitz

France

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Killed age 4, Oswiecim

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Killed age 3, Auschwitz

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Killed age 6, Auschwitz

Netherlands

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Killed age 6, Auschwitz

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Killed age 4, Auschwitz

Netherlands

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Killed at 8 months, Auschwitz

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Killed age 3, Sobibor

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Killed age 6, Sobibor

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Killed age 7, Sobibor

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Killed at age 8 months, Auschwitz

France

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Killed ages 2 & 9 yrs, Auschwitz

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Killed ages 4 & 2, Auschwitz

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Killed ages 5 & 7, Sobibor

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Killed at almost age 3, Auschwitz

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Killed age 4, Auschwitz

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Killed age 8, Auschwitz

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Killed age 6, Auschwitz

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Killed age 3, Auschwitz

Entire family killed

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Auschwitz, 1943

Social policy matters. When Adolf Hitler became the duly chosen Chancellor of Germany in 1933, his social policy was to reduce unemployment, create jobs, and create an economically self-sufficient Germany. In pursuit of these goals, he banned labor unions and strikes, required a return to his preferred religion (Germanic paganism), and created public works programs so that all Germans would be employed.

Two years later, laws banning marriage or sexual relations between Jews and non-Jews were enacted and later expanded to include "Gypsies, Negroes, or their bastard offspring". And one year after that, the Four-Year Economic Plan's aim was to gain independence from foreign trade. Within five years the Holocaust was in motion. Millions of people - Jews, Slavs, Romani, Russians, mentally and physically disabled people, Jehovah's Witnesses, and more - were killed. And plans were in place to starve millions of "racially inferior" Europeans (controlled territories such as Russia, Slavic nations, etc) by seizing their food supplies and giving them to Germans.

Numbers: Roughly 1.5 million children were victims of the Holocaust. In total about 11 million victims, which included not only around 6 million Jews, but also Poles and other Slavs, Soviet citizens, Soviet POWs, Romanis (Gypsies), Communists, homosexuals, Freemasons, Jehovah's Witnesses, and the mentally and physically disabled, were victims of the Nazi regime. By the end, 19.3 million civilians and prisoners of war and 29 million soldiers and civilians died because of the war. Hate and fear can take a great toll.

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