Anne Frank and the Children of the Holocaust [antikvár]

INTRODUCTION In September 1939, when World War II began, there were more than one and a half million Jewish children living in countries occupied, or soon to be occupied, by Hitler's armies. By 1945, when the war ended, over a million of those children—including Anne Frank— were no longer alive. Most of them were not killed by bombing raids or in the line of duty; they were deliberately murdered by the leaders and followers of a political party that beheved they had no right to live, simply because they were Jewish. Other children whose ethnic origin, religion, or parents' political choice meant that they had no place in a Nazi-led society were also targeted. Because the Nazis were in power for so long (1933-1945], thousands of children never had a normal childhood. Something as simple as going to a local swimming pool