jewish children in the holocaust

In 1939, Helga Weiss was a young Jewish schoolgirl in Prague and she and her family endured the beginning of the Nazi invasion. Her father was denied work and she could not attend regular school. As she witnessed the increasing Nazi brutality she began a diary. In 1942, Helga and her parents were sent to Terezin where she continued her diary. In 1944 the family was moved to Auschwitz. But before Helga left Terezin, her uncle, who worked in the Terezin records department, hid her diary and drawings in a brick wall. In one of the many miracles of Jewish Holocaust survivors, he was able to reclaim them for her after the war.

Krystyna Chiger survived the Holocaust by hiding with her family in the sewers of Lvov, Poland for fourteen months. Now a retired dentist, she lives on Long Island.

Under the Nazis, Europe's children were simply objects available for use in the service of the totalitarian state. The children were subjected to euthanasia, eugenic selection, racist indoctrination, kidnapping, "Germanization", mass executions and slave labor. At the end of the war, uprooted children tried to search for their families and many never found them.

Bronia helped her family survive during the occupation of Poland by smuggling goods to trade for food. Then Bronia and her sisters were deported to Auschwitz II-Birkenau concentration camp and with courage and the help of strangers Bronia became one of the youngest survivors.

Anne Frank's diary is combined with memories from people who knew her to create this biography.

Presents an illustrated biography of Anne Frank; discussing her early childhood, Holocaust experiences, diary, and death.

The true story of Ruth Kapp Hartz's life during the time of the Nazi invasion of France during World War II. As a young Jewish child, she lost her religion, her parents, and even her name.

The author shares what she remembers as a very young Jewish child posing with her mother as Christians during the Holocaust in Poland, and discusses the impact of her early experiences on her later life.

Recounts the childhoods of two men who were adolescents during the Second World War and became friends as adults in California: Frederic Tubach, a German, and Bernat Rosner, a Hungarian Jew whose family was murdered at Auschwitz.