...targeted from the very beginning. Laws were implemented and they had a severe impact on the lives of children. The laws restricted the number of Jewish children that could attend school, it banned children from many public spaces, and everyday activities for them were forbidden. In 1935, Jewish children in German classrooms were publicly ridiculed by the teachers teaching ‘biology’ that designated them as racially inferior. Then in 1938, Jewish children were prohibited from attending German schools, and the Jewish schools had deteriorating conditions and they were closed in 1942. Jewish families couldn’t leave Germany because of strict visa, immigration control, and lack of funds. A rescue effort began between 1938 and 1940, called the Kindertransport, which brought thousands of refugee Jewish children to Great Britain for safety. The children that didn’t get rescued went into hiding (Holocaust | Children and the Holocaust). Jewish children who weren’t found and sent to camps were called the ‘hidden children’. Their name is that because the children went through many things for their religion to stay hidden from the Nazis. Some Jewish children could pass as Aryans, and so the people looking out for the children got false identity papers for them. For the children who didn’t pass as Aryans, or the ones that’s presence in a family’s house caused too much suspicious had to stay physically hidden. They hid in cellars, attics, barns, chicken coops, and forest huts. The hidden children...
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