Lest We Forget - The Children of the Holocaust
Updated on Jan 28, 2019.
Originally added on Jan 26, 2018 by
Kathy Pinna
Social policy matters. When Hitler became the duly chosen Chancellor of Germany in 1933, his social policy: 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 (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.
These are some of the faces of the children who were Holocaust victims - heartbreaking. Who knows what talent was lost, what they would have become, and what they would have added to our lives.
These are some of the faces of the children who were Holocaust victims - heartbreaking. Who knows what talent was lost, what they would have become, and what they would have added to our lives.
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Lest We Forget - The Children of the Holocaust
Czech Republic
Murdered at Auschwitz Death Camp on August 29, 1944, age 5.
Latvia
Killed in a mass grave at Riga, Latvia on October 25, 1941 at ages 4 & 3.
Belguim
Murdered at Auschwitz Death Camp on September 14, 1942 at age 5.
Germany
He had microcephaly and was killed by an overdose of morphine.
Belgium
Deported to Auschwitz Death Camp then murdered on August 17, 1942 at age 5.
Belgium
Murdered at Auschwitz Death Camp on September 1942 at age 4.
Germany
Had seizures and difficulty speaking. Died of starvation on May 16, 1945 at age 9.
Belgium
Deported to Auschwitz then murdered 5 years later on December 10th at age 7.
Germany
Deported to Auschwitz Death Camp then murdered 4 years later at age 5 years.
Germany
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.)
Italy
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.
Germany
Murdered at Auschwitz Death Camp on October 31, 1944 at age 7.
Germany
Diagnosed with a debility, murdered in the gas chamber on November 1, 1943 at age 5.
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