Children and the Holocaust
Children and the Holocaust

Summary/Abstract: Perhaps the most troubling approach of the Holocaust is that which takes into account the children’s suffering. Generally, when speaking about the extermination of European Jews we think in terms of the victims’ number, of the Nazi’s and their allies’ crimes, of the by-standers’ responsibility, etc. But we often forget that of the six million victims guilty of having been born Jewish, a million and a half were children. Since all European Jews were condemned to extermination, the percentage of Jewish children who survived the war was significantly lower than that of the adults: 6–8% as compared to 33%

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