The Holocaust, which took place during World War II, was the state sponsored killing of six million Jews by the Nazi regime. The Holocaust claimed the lives of about six million Jewish people - men and woman, boys and girls, young and old. As soon as Adolf Hitler took power in 1933, the German government passed laws to remove Jewish people's rights as citizens. To differentiate between Jews and non-Jews, the Nazis made the Jews wear Star of David bands on their coat sleeves. Hitler blamed the Jews for all the problems that Germany had at the time, such as unemployment, poverty, and starvation. Hitler hoped to bring an end to the Jewish population. During the Holocaust, Life as a jew was extremely difficult in that they went into hiding, they were forced to live in ghettos, and they were sent to concentration camps.
There were about two million Jewish children, ranging from infants to teens, living in Europe at the start of World War II. …
