where were the children placed during the haulocost and what did they have to do?

Question

doing a report, can't find any info.

Answer 1

If the children were too young to work, they were just gassed.

If they were older, they would be put to work the same as the adults.

Answer 2

I assume you're referring to the Jewish children, or the children of other groups persecuted by the Nazis.

For the most part, if they weren't well hidden, they were more vulnerable than adults. In Auschwitz, small children, as well as the weak and elderly, almost never survived the initial selection, and were sent directly to the gas chambers.

SOME camps (mainly holding camps) did make special allowances for children. In Bergen-Belsen (which was a labor camp), children of "political prisoners" who were held to possibly be traded were given the luxury of a glass of milk a day. In Westerbork (a "work camp"), children had school.

For the most part, though, the Germans didn't make many special allowances for children. If they were sent to death camps like Auschwitz, they were often separated from their parents immediately and led to the gas chambers.

Also, in Auschwitz, children (especially twins) were used for some very unscientific "medical research" at the hands of Dr. Josef Mengele. These were really nothing more than horrifying experiments of a cruel and morbid man.

When it came to hiding Jews, or "going underground", children were among the hardest to hide, for the obvious reasons. They have a difficult time staying quiet, they tend to get ill more often than young- and middle-aged adults, and they must be supervised.

At some point, once they realized what the Germans were doing to the children, some people made it their business to step in and help, at great cost to themselves. Oskar Schlinder (of "Schindler's List") fought to keep all the children he had "employed", claiming they were important to the war effort because there was no other way to clean the insides of shell casings except by having the children, with their tiny fingers, polish them. Those children, as well as the other "Schindler Jews" (around 1100 people) were eventually sent to a labor camp run by Schindler, where they "made" weapon supplies for the German Army. In reality, not a single functioning weapon or shell was produced in that camp, but the families were allowed to stay together, no one was beaten or killed, and none of them starved.

This was rare, though. You must keep in mind, the purpose of the Holocaust was to rid Europe of the Jewish people. That goal just doesn't allow for the children to survive, and to grow up to marry and repopulate the continent with Jews. Long story short, the percentage of children who were killed at the hands of the Nazis was depressingly high.

Answer 3

The same horrors were inflicted on the children as the adults. Many children born in the camps were killed right away.

Answer 4

the Jewish children were murdered along with the rest of the community

Answer 5

They were placed in gas chambers, and had the very important task of inhaling deeply and dying.

Answer 6

i was named after a man who survived the haulocost. he was about 12 and he was forced to dig graves for his family and friends, and if it had gone on longer he would have found himself in them.