Deaths

__**Child Death**__

About six million people went through the Holocaust. Almost two million of them were children. The spaces that these victims lived in were territories that the German Armies or their allies occupied. One and a half million of these children had died by the end of the war. About one million of these kids were Jewish and thousands of them were Romani (Gypsy), German kids with physical or mental disabilities, Polish children, and children in the Soviet Union. Around thirty three percent of the adults survived but only six to eleven percent of children made it. Children that were being deported from the Lodz ghetto (above) Picture provided by ushmm.org

German Nazi’s would kill by shooting down rows of children at a time. Also gas chambers were one of the huge ways that kids and adults died. Kids only got to eat scraps of food at a time and they dressed in rags because that’s all that they had. They had poor shelter and diseases were spreading all the time. Anne Frank died from the disease Typhus, the spreading of bodily lice, skin rash, and high fever.

A child eats in the streets during the Holocaust in a ghetto (above) Look how skinny he is!! =( Picture provided by ushmm.org