Although children were not a main target of the Nazi’s violence, they did fall subject to persecution along with their parents. Jewish children were first exposed to persecution in school. Many of their friends who were not Jewish began not socializing with them and even began to treat them in prejudice ways. This was soon followed with the announcement that, “German Jewish children were prohibited from attending German schools” (www.mtsu.edu/.baustin/children.html). The life of children had quickly become as torn apart as their parents. However, there were more efforts to help the children escape the grips of the Nazi rule. Before 1939, several thousand children were able to escape in “Kindertransports” to the Netherlands, Great Britain, Palestine, and the United States” (www.mtsu.edu/.baustin/children.html).

As one can imagine, all children who lived thru the Holocaust, were subject to inhuman conditions. Life was stripped from them and in return handed a small piece of hell that they could call their own. Though there were those who were fortunate enough to witness better days, some were left with that small piece of hell as their final destiny. Whether it was the children of the ghettos and camps or the tortured souls of the Bullenhuser School children, it may be the cries of the children that are most often unheard in the story of the Holocaust.

Despite the “unrecognizable world” that many of the children were forced to live in, the Nazi’s managed to take it one step further (Dwork, p. 210). As if the camps were not bad enough, 20 Jewish children were taken from Auschwitz to a camp called Neungamme. The 20 children ranged in age from just 5 years old to 12. They came from all over Europe and were the poster children of a concentration camp. They were “plucked from their homes” and had to “witness the murder of parents, siblings, and relatives” and then “faced starvation, illness, and brutal labor” in Auschwitz (www.auschwitz.dk/bullenhuser.html).

These chosen 20 were now going to be used for a series of medical experiments conducted by SS doctor Kurt Heissmeyer. “ Heissmeyer removed the children’s lymph glands for analysis, and he injected living tuberculosis bacteria in their veins and directly into their lungs to determine if they had any natural immunities to tuberculosis” (www.auschwitz.dk/bullenhuser.html). The children were examined and observed very closely but as expected, the children all became very ill within days. With the war looking like it would soon be over, the doctor decided to kill the children so that there would be no evidence of the experime

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