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During the Holocaust, children were especially vulnerable to death under the Nazi regime. An estimated 1.5 million children, [1] nearly all Jewish, were murdered during the Holocaust, either directly by or as a direct consequence of Nazi actions. The Nazis advocated killing children of unwanted or "dangerous" people in accordance with their ...
Artur Dąb Siemiątek, born in Łowicz in 1935, was first proposed as the subject of the photo in 1950. Siemiątek was from a well-off family and his father was a member of the Judenrat in the Łowicz Ghetto, liquidated to Warsaw in 1941. Jadwiga Piesecka, a cousin of Siemiątek and resident of Warsaw, and her husband fled to the Soviet Union ...
Theresienstadt Ghetto was established by the SS during World War II in the fortress town of Terezín, in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia (German-occupied Czechoslovakia). Theresienstadt served as a waystation to the extermination camps. Its conditions were deliberately engineered to hasten the death of its prisoners, and the ghetto also ...
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 ...
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Jewish women and children forcibly removed from a bunker by Schutzstaffel (SS) units for deportation either to Majdanek or Treblinka extermination camps (1943); one of the most iconic pictures of World War II. The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising[a] was the 1943 act of Jewish resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto in German-occupied ...
Kindertransport. For the play by Diane Samuels, see Kindertransport (play). The Kindertransport (German for "children's transport") was an organised rescue effort of children from Nazi -controlled territory that took place in 1938–1939 during the nine months prior to the outbreak of the Second World War.
During World War II, some individuals and groups helped Jews and others escape the Holocaust conducted by Nazi Germany. The support, or at least absence of active opposition, of the local population was essential to Jews attempting to hide but often lacking in Eastern Europe. [1] Those in hiding depended on the assistance of non-Jews. [2]
52°14′43″N 20°58′36″E / 52.24527°N 20.97656°E / 52.24527; 20.97656. Location. Jewish Cemetery, Warsaw, Poland. Designer. Jacek Eisner. Dedicated to. Jewish children murdered in the Holocaust. The Monument to the Memory of Children - Victims of the Holocaust is a monument located in the Jewish cemetery on Okopowa Street ...