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Children & the Shoah |
. . "O Night of the Weeping Children...
O Night of the children branded for Death...Sachs
Elizabeth K. Best
...vengeance for the blood of a little boy...the devil hasn't invented it yet...Bialik.
Children and the Holocaust has become a much studied area for academics.
The truth is,it was hardly academic for a small child, alone and afraid
to face the holocaust alone in terrifying circumstances. Further, most
survivors today were very young when they were interred, bereaved of parents
and watched unimaginable cruelty. Years pass, and the survivors have grown
old, but the woundings of children still remain indelibly written on the hearts
of the individuals we call "holocaust survivors". After years, we still do to
them, what was done to them in the Shoah: instead of meeting the heart, we depersonalize
them, and the wounds of children remain. As this page develops, we will look at the
experiences of children in hiding, in the camps, in false identities, some of which
have lasted even now, and the effects of childhood devastation on personal lives and
a society.
While this page is being developed,
please visit these other helpful sites:
School & Shoah
Children in Hiding
Missing Identities
Bereaved Children
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