During the Holocaust, many people, especially Jews have perished during that time. Some lived to tell the tale, but the many people that died will linger until the end of time. But it’s mostly the teens that might have faced more difficult situations than the adults. Teens faced many effects negatively on their obstacles, family lives, and even their health during the Holocaust.
Teens first face their fears with the Holocaust as obstacles both physically and mentally. They experience persecution, also known as abuse. “Though the pace and severity of persecution differed in each country, Jews were marked, vilified, and segregated from their neighbors.” (USHMM, 2004). Besides the spread of disease and the force of separation, teens and children …show more content…
As Weiss says in her journal, she says that “starvation rations, disease, the lice and bed bugs that crawled across their faces – there was a thriving cultural life.” (Cochrane, 2013). This situation isn’t pretty. Teens have to face odoriferous debility almost every day, and eventually this will affect their youth poorly because of this. “About half of these people died of disease, hunger, or slave labor.” (The Gale Group Inc., 2002). Disease is one of them, but even if the youth doesn’t perish, their parents might, and it’s still atrocious, because teens and children will have to face the loss for the rest of their lives, and this leads to family life (how loss of family members affect the …show more content…
Losses of family members, separation of bonds, and total solitude can affect teens and kids dramatically, especially if they love their parents more than anything else in the world. “The Lebensborn program, devised by SS head Heinrich Himmler, focused on children who had Nordic features like blue eyes and blond hair. Nazi policy allowed those children to be kidnapped from their parents, then sent to centers where they would be “Germanized””. (Bos, 2016). These kind of children have to face this fate, but they aren’t the only ones having to be isolated from their parents. Irena’s “Uncle Jindra, for example, was sent from Auschwitz to Mauthausen and experienced such cold that his legs had to be amputated. He died as a result.” (Cochrane, 2013). Teens experience loss of their family members and they feel like it’s the day of reckoning (or in this case