Children during the Holocaust

• Author's Introduction
• p. xiii

• Abbreviations
• p. xix

• Introduction
• p. xxi

• 1
• Children in the Early Years of Antisemitic Persecution
• p. 1

• From Assimilation to Marginalization
• p. 3

• In the Schoolroom
• p. 9

• "I Decide Who Is a Jew"
• p. 15

• Training Youth for Jobs Abroad
• p. 19

• Reichskristallnacht
• p. 24

• The Dismissal of Jewish Children from "German" Schools
• p. 27

• What's in a Name? Israel and Sara
• p. 31

• 2
• Children and the War
• p. 35

• The First Taste of Conflict
• p. 36

• Caught in the Crossfire: The War on Civilians
• p. 45

• The War's Long Shadow: The Last Years of Conflict
• p. 58

• 3
• Lives in the Balance: Escape and Deportation
• p. 67

• Strangers in a Strange Land: Emigration
• p. 68

• Victims of Einsatzgruppen Activity
• p. 81

• "We've Been Picked Up": Roundups and Deportations
• p. 94

• 4
• Children in the World of the Ghetto
• p. 107

• Into the Ghetto
• p. 109

• "The Garden of Eden": Education in the Lodz Ghetto
• p. 115

• "Give Me Your Children": The "Children's Actions"
• p. 121

• Death and Survival in the Ghetto
• p. 134

• 5
• Children in the Concentration Camp Universe
• p. 149

• At the Edge of the Abyss
• p. 151

• Death at Auschwitz
• p. 154

• In a Living Hell: Survival in Camps
• p. 162

• 6
• Children in the Web of Racial Hygiene Policy
• p. 191

• Compulsory Sterilization
• p. 193

• The Many Faces of Lebensborn
• p. 202

• "Euthanasia"
• p. 209

• The Danger of "Gypsy Blood": Roma and Sinti
• p. 221

• Children as "Research Material"
• p. 230

• 7
• The Lives of Others: "Aryan" Children and the Nazi Regime
• p. 243

• Youth Organizations in the Third Reich
• p. 244

• Nonconformity and Dissidence: The Edelweiss Pirates
• p. 251

• Hearts and Minds: Nazi Propaganda
• p. 257

• Perpetrators and Victims
• p. 263

• German Children and the War
• p. 272

• 8
• The World of the Child
• p. 283

• Escape into Learning
• p. 284

• At Play during the Holocaust
• p. 291

• Innocence and Knowledge
• p. 302

• In Hopes and Dreams: Coping with the Holocaust
• p. 311

• 9
• Children and Resistance and Rescue
• p. 323

• Youth and Armed Resistance
• p. 324

• Unarmed Resistance: The Children's War
• p. 336

• In Hiding
• p. 347

• Children and Aid Organizations: The Politics of Rescue
• p. 357

• When Rescue Fails
• p. 369

• 10
• Elsewhere, Perhaps? Children and the End of the Holocaust
• p. 375

• "Over This Field of Death, Peace Breaks Out": Liberation
• p. 376

• The Search for Family Members
• p. 388

• Where Is Home?
• p. 395

• The Process of Remembering
• p. 409

• List of Documents
• p. 421

• Bibliography
• p. 439

• Glossary
• p. 451

• Index
• p. 489

• About the Authors
• p. 513