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UNITED STATES
HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM
CENTER FOR ADVANCED HOLOCAUST STUDIES
Children and the Holocaust
Foreword
Well over a million children were murdered in the Holocaust. In addition to
Jewish children, Romani children, institutionalized children, and handicapped children
also were killed. Among Jews, the toll on children was particularly heavy. Although all
Jews were marked for death, only six–eleven percent of Jewish children survived
versus thirty-three percent of adults. Children, like their families, were persecuted for
racial, religious, or politicalreasons in ghettos; concentration, transit, labor, and
extermination camps; foreign lands to which they escaped, often without their parents;
and in hiding.
Although their young were silenced forever, we can still hear some of these children through the rare bits of writing they left behind. Such is the case with fifteen-year-old Dawid Sierakowiak; an October 1939 entry in his Lodz ghetto diary
notes: “The work at the square was supervised by a single soldier...with a big stick.
Using rude words, he told me to fill puddleswith sand. I have never been so humiliated
in my life as when...I saw the happy, smiling mugs of passersby laughing at our
misfortune.” The last entry in Dawid’s diary, after over three years of grueling decline
into starvation and disease, reads as a deadly premonition: “There is really no way out
of this for us.” Dawid Sierakowiak died in the ghetto in August 1943. None of his family survived.
More often, the words detailing the fates of children came from their murderers. At the end of October 1941, the RomanianMilitary Commander of Chisinau
(Kishinev), Bessarabia, reported to the Military Governor of the province: “I have the
honor to inform you that on October 31 the last major transport of Jews (from the Chisinau ghetto) was dispatched. The orphanage with 38 children, including four still at the breast and the rest from one to six years old, will be evacuated on Monday, the 3rd
of November.” They were sent to Transnistria. Only an echo of their existence
remains. On September 4, 1942, Chaim Rumkowski, Elder of the Jews in the Lodz
Ghetto, delivered one of the most infamous speeches of his or any other time: “Brothers
and sisters, hand them over to me! Fathers and mothers, give me your children!”
Almost all the Lodz ghetto children under the age of ten were taken away and murdered.
https://www.ushmm.org/m/pdfs/20060313-children-holocaust-symposium.pdf#page=5&zoom=auto,-31,729
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