What children and young teen’s endured during the holocaust?

The children of the Jewish Holocaust during the Nazi era were placed under very unjust , cruel , and exacting circumstances . Education , a basic right of children in developed nations of that era , was denied to Jews in areas of Europe where Hitler 's rule and influence were adopted During the time of transition during which the exclusion of Jewish children from schools was being implemented , non-Jewish children were formally taught that their Jewish counterparts were inferior . In to do this , Jewish youth were used to demonstrate the appearance of inferiority by placing them

in front of the class and pointing out their characteristic phenotypes as being undesirable . Occurrences like this placed severe limitations on the ability of Jews to learn in these schools , as they were constantly mistreated , neglected , and abused because of their race . Growing restrictions were also placed upon these children 's accessibility to the resources within the schools , until finally they were prevented altogether from attending schools , which were open now only to Germans children (FCIT

Fred Spiegel describes his first weeks of school (shul ) in Dinslaken Germany , where he had to attend a Jewish shul , as the German schools were no longer open to Jewish children (Spiegel 27 , 29 . The alternative Jewish schools were understaffed and unsupported by the state . Spiegel himself recalls his school 's having only one teacher (29 . Later , Arnold Blum recalls an even more frightening occurrence in which his school was being burned before his very eyes (Blum , 20 . He immortalizes this event in his memoir Kristallnacht (20 . More than just restricting these Jewish children 's ability to attend state schools , they were being stripped of their right to any education at all in the burning of their Jewish school

The parks were also an area in which Jewish children felt the abuse of Nazism . German children , who were armed with the idea that Jews were inferior , played in the parks and discriminated against the Jews they found there . The Jewish children were called names , spat upon , and otherwise abused by non-Jewish children . Spiegel also describes his time spent in the park behind his house in Dinslaken . The last time he remembers going there , he was cursed and called a Dirty Jew ' by the other children (Spiegel , 28 . His grandfather too was cursed by his friends

Kristallnacht , which occurred on November 9-10 , 1938 , ushered in the destruction of all that was Jewish . Beyond the burning of schools came the burning and destruction of Jewish homes , businesses and synagogues (Blum , 20 . Fred Spiegel recalls the night he was forced to leave his home and the abuses even he as a child faced . He was already emotionally crippled by the sight of his community being gutted by fires . He further recalls being cursed and spit upon by the non-Jews as he and his family were being forced from their homes . Some Jews were evicted to concentration camps and ghettos . Others were turned out of the country altogether . Spiegel writes about the events he witnessed...