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Nevertheless, the brave deed of sheltering a Jewish youth did have its opponents. Following years in concealment, shielding their true selves and at times their physical being, the conclusion of World War II led the hidden Jewish children to individual freedom. However, for a majority of the children, the end of the war produced even more sorrow.
Hitler's War Against Jewish and Polish Children, 1939–45 is a 1994 book by Richard C. Lukas published by Hippocrene Books, [1] focusing on the topic of Nazi Germany treatment of children during World War II, covering topics of Nazi crimes against children with focus on Polish and Jewish children. The book received a second edition from the ...
Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport is a 2000 documentary film about the British rescue operation known as the Kindertransport, which saved the lives of over 10,000 Jewish and other children from Nazi Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia, and Danzig by transporting them via train, boat, and plane to Great Britain.
I Never Saw Another Butterfly: Children's Drawings and Poems from Terezin Concentration Camp, 1942–1944 is a collection of works of art and poetry by Jewish children who lived in the concentration camp Theresienstadt. They were created at the camp in secret art classes taught by Austrian artist and educator Friedl Dicker-Brandeis.
Hidden children during the Holocaust faced significant trauma during and after World War II. [10] [11] Most importantly, except when the child was in hiding with at least one parent, the child had effectively lost all parental support during the war, but would be in the care of strangers. Younger children were often too young to remember their ...
It is estimated that during World War II Nazis killed an estimated 2 million of Polish and Polish Jewish children in occupied Polish territories. 1.5 million of Jewish children perished in the Holocaust; tens of thousands of Romani (Gypsy) children died in the Romani Holocaust, between 5,000 to 25,000 disabled children were killed as part of ...
The Jewish children remain in the school while the Nazis that are patrolling the area, led by an SS Major , hunt for them in the woods surrounding the convent. Sister Gabrielle takes great lengths to keep the children's identities a secret, but the major is suspicious and continues to believe that Jewish refugees are hiding in the school after ...
The Times noted “Tehran Children suggests pathways for further research into a wide range of topics,” including American Jewish leadership during World War II. the Jewish Agency in Palestine, Polish-Jewish relations, and Bukharan Jewish communities, along with questions about the psychology of survival.