Theresienstadt: What did it do to the Jewish Children? As of October 1941, the concentration camp Terezin became a Jewish ghetto, but life never got any easier for the Jews. In fact, more sprung up. Children were suffering just as much as the adults. But small children can’t work. They were killed. To get away from death, older children had to work and stay as strong as they could until they die of exhaustion. Children are very strong. They are always coming up with new ideas, while keeping the old information. Jewish children in Terezin Concentration Camp suffered through starvation, labor, suffocation, cruelty and more; yet even then, they mainly held perseverance within the thought that things can and will get better and that giving
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Franta Bass
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The main way that said children persevered and were hopeful was the religious perspective. They believed that everything will be fixed if they kept their religion at the top of their perspective on the future, everything would be fine. Kira Cochrane interviewed Hela Weissova. Helga stated she cheated the system and made an effort to keep hope that she and her mother would not be separated. Prisoners who knew the fate that lay ahead on the left whispered warnings: "Don't say you are too young, don't say you are ill – say you are able to work. Don't say you belong together, that you are mother and child," remembers Helga."
She resolved to say she was older than 14; her mother would pretend to be younger. In fact, the SS man didn't ask questions and sent them both to the right. "He pointed – I don't know if it was luck, fate, a miracle. I have friends who are still alive – they are the same age as I am – but their mothers were [sent to the left]. So I was lucky twice. Not only that I was not sent, but that I was together with my mother."
Helga cheated through the rules along with her mother in the hope that she would live while many others perished to illness and
Franta Bass
(57)
The main way that said children persevered and were hopeful was the religious perspective. They believed that everything will be fixed if they kept their religion at the top of their perspective on the future, everything would be fine. Kira Cochrane interviewed Hela Weissova. Helga stated she cheated the system and made an effort to keep hope that she and her mother would not be separated. Prisoners who knew the fate that lay ahead on the left whispered warnings: "Don't say you are too young, don't say you are ill – say you are able to work. Don't say you belong together, that you are mother and child," remembers Helga."
She resolved to say she was older than 14; her mother would pretend to be younger. In fact, the SS man didn't ask questions and sent them both to the right. "He pointed – I don't know if it was luck, fate, a miracle. I have friends who are still alive – they are the same age as I am – but their mothers were [sent to the left]. So I was lucky twice. Not only that I was not sent, but that I was together with my mother."
Helga cheated through the rules along with her mother in the hope that she would live while many others perished to illness and