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Children in the Holocaust
Duration: 1 - 1.5 hours
This lesson focuses on the Jewish child during the Holocaust. As a consequence of Nazi racial doctrine, the Nazis considered Jewish children and infants to be their enemies as well, and related to them as such even before murdering them.A million and a half Jewish children were murdered by the Nazis. How did Jewish children grow up under Nazi rule? How could a child grow up when people related to him as a dangerous enemy? Did these children have a “childhood”? We will examine these questions in light of the definitions...
