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Hiding
From Hitler
During World War 2 over 1.5 million Jewish
children were murdered in Nazi occupied Europe during the Holocaust.
Despite appalling difficulties, deprivation and dangers, thousands
survived as hidden children.
If they were caught they were sent to
concentration camps or shot on the
spot.
Jews were rounded up in ghettos ready
for deportation to the death camps. Some went into hiding before
entering the ghettos, or escaped into hiding later. Many desperate
parents, knowing they would not survive, made frantic arrangements
for their children to be hidden.
These children, some as young as 3, hid
in filthy, rat infested sewers, cold caves, windowless, cramped
cupboards and holes in the ground. To fight off starvation they
scavenged for food, often living on raw meat and the dew off the
leaves. They were in constant fear of being found, as they were
forced to move from one hiding place to another.
Photographs by John Stanley-Clamp
© Golden Reed Productions Ltd. 2005
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