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â€Å"The Holocaust is not a tragedy of the Jewish people, it is a failure of humanity as a whole†(Moshe Katsav). During the time of the Holocaust over six million people were killed, most people overlook the children’s fraction of those deaths. Over one million five thousand Jewish children, gypsy children, and handicapped children were killed. Only a small percent of children survived the holocaust. The children who survived the Holocaust had to experience life in hiding, life in concentration camps, and life in the ghettos. There were quite a few children that went into hiding during the holocaust.Some of the children hid by fleeing to another country or getting false identities. Some of the children that hid were searched for, and fairly often found others had a better chance of survival depending on the what they knew. If a child was too young to know when to be quiet then they had a greater chance of being found than older children who knew when to be quiet. Children who were hidden in rural areas were hidden in barns, chicken coops, and forest huts. Children who were hidden in suburb areas were hidden in attics, cellars, behind walls, and in or behind cabinets. Some had to sit/stand motionless for hours at a time (â€Å"Jewish Victims of the Holocaust†, â€Å"Hidden Children†). Too much noise would alert neighbors and cause suspicion. Another way of survival was fleeing to another country. Britain started relocating Jewish children under the age of seventeen, this was called the Kinde rtransport. This began in December 1938 and ended September 1, 1939, two days before Britain entered World War II (Fitzgerald, Stephanie). During this time over ten thousand children traveled of Germany, Austria, Poland and Czechoslovakia. Some children had ... ...d to catch the Nazi’s eyes. Nazis would go to these peoples houses and tell them that their family member was getting the latest treatment, or maybe even a cure. This was in fact not true, they were being sent to Auschwitz to be experimented on, most of these children never returned home (projetaladin.org). The Holocaust was a dreadful time in history. Over six million jews were murdered, over one and a half million being children. The children during this time had to experience life in hiding, life in concentration camps, or life in the ghetto. Some children had to experience all three. The Jews are an example to people all across the world today, since the Holocaust happened we know not to repeat it. â€Å"If we bear all this suffering and if there are still Jews left, when it is over, then jews, instead of being doomed, will be held up as an example† (Anne Frank).