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).

le to escape were placed in ghettos and transit camps. These ghettos and transit camps served as the foreground to the death and slave labor camps that would soon follow. It was written in a Jewish diary,” A Jewish ghetto in the traditional sense is impossible; certainly a closed ghetto is unconceivable” (Dwork, p.155). Infact many of these ghettos were “closed” meaning that the Jews that occupied the ghettos were forbidden to leave the area. Within the ghettos, there was belittlement of life. The segregated streets often had no working stores and closed places of worship. This left the isolated inhabitants subject to starvation, disease, and early death.

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.

Day to day life in the camps was also very hard. Children were forced to adapt to living in harsh conditions while living there with new people. Children were submitted to violence everyday. Sometimes it was in form of verbal harassment or even murder by the guards. Living in the tight quarters with little food, often made it difficult to work hard laborious jobs. Many of the workers were beaten by guards for working too slow or even for talking.

These chosen 20 were now going to be used for a series of medical experiments conducted by SS doctor Kurt Heissmeyer. “ Heissmeyer remove

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