Students looked at a poster from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum entitled "Lost Childhoods" containing images of children who were killed during the Holocaust. The images contained studio portraits, family snapshots, and school class pictures of children and families from the 1920s and 1930s in Eastern Europe.
Questions included:
A) Why do adults save pictures of children?
B) How are these children different from you? How are they similar?
C) Why did the Nazis kill children?
D) What is the value of these photos to people who survived or who knew these
children?
E) Some people say the Holocaust never happened. Given that belief, what is
the value of these photos?
1. I think that adults save pictures of children because it is a way of
persevering the past and it is also a way to look back and say look she was 5
years old in this picture and now she is in collage or whatever.
2. The Nazis killed children because they did not want any one to grow up
see what Hitler had done to their parents, grand parents, aunt and uncles or
ever brothers and sisters and try to get revenge. If you ask me I think that
Hitler was a "scare-d-cat."
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April 30, 2001
Families save pictures of their children because children are innocent,
important, loving, happy, etc, etc. These children did not deserve to die, and if they did, their families would look back at those pictures
as a remembrance on who these children were.
The reason why so many people were victimized and persecuted saved their
pictures because if they were still alive after the Holocaust, they
would have at least some memory of a person or people before the Holocaust.
Adults save pictures of children to remind them of old days when they get old or because they love them. The pictures might remind the children when they are adults. Photos of children right before the Holocaust shows to people now how short of a childhood a lot of children had.
The Nazis killed children because they did not want the children to grow up and get revenge on the Nazis for the hard times they had. They also killed children because they could not work as well as adults.
Mike S.
April 30, 2001 (Hitler commits suicide today)
Lost Childhoods
Why did adults save pictures of children?
Adults took pictures of their children to capture the moment of that time and
place. The reason why they saved the pictures was to remind them of what life
used to be. They used to live a normal life and do normal things. But during
the holocaust that all was taken away and what was left of that life was only
pictures and memories of how they used to live.
Why did the Nazis kill children?
The Nazis killed children because, they thought that Jewish children would
come and seek revenge when they are older. So in order to keep that from
happening, the Nazis killed them. They also killed children because they may
have been injured and cannot do the work they are supposed to do. In some
other cases, the Nazis killed them if the children stole something like a
chicken or something of value to the Jews.
Aniscia M.
When adults save pictures of children it is most likely
because they are
fond of the children or child within the picture. These children were
Jewish
and were victims of prejudiced because of the family they had. I'm lucky
that I am not a victim of cruel prejudiced but he children in the picture
could have been close to my age. If I were in their position I would be
very
scared of what would happen to me and my friends and family. I believe
that
these children probably felt the same way. Moneywise, probably not much, but
they are probably priceless though the people who feel their pain or were
close to the children. I believe that the Holocaust is a very important
part
of history and is very true but to one who doesn't believe in the Holocaust it
wouldn't mean much it would be like looking at a fake picture of Big Foot to
those people.
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