Perhaps more that 1.2 million Jewish children died at the hands of the Nazis during the Holocaust. Because the Germans saw children as too small and too weak to work, they sent them directly to the gas chambers once the Final Solution began. Other children died of starvation or disease in ghettos; many were subjected to torturous medical experiments, especially twins. In memorial of the 1.2 million who died, here is a small sampling of biographies of some children not lucky enough to survive. We should remember that these children's stories are, tragically, very short. We don't know details of their experiences because they never grew up to tell us. They never even got the chance to hear that they were "too young to remember."

Bronislaw Honig (picture courtesy Children of the Holocaust.)

Bronislaw Honig - a young boy is betrayed by his rescuer's stepfather.
Alinka - a little girl in Warsaw disappears without a trace.
Eva & Abraham Beem - a Dutch brother and sister try to pose as Christians, but end up in Auschwitz.
Jacqueline Morgenstern - a Rumanian girl grows up in France and ends up a part of the Nazis hideous medical experiments.
Carlo D'Angeli - an Italian Jewish boy perishes in the gas chambers.

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