Children during the Holocaust / Patricia Heberer ; introduction by Nechama Tec ; advisory committee, Christopher R. Browning ... [and others].

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Children in the early years of antisemitic persecution -- Children and the war -- Lives in the balance: escape and deportation -- Children in the world of the ghetto -- Children in the concentration camp universe -- Children in the web of racial hygiene policy -- The lives of others: "Aryan" children and the Nazi regime -- The world of the child -- Children and resistance and rescue -- Elsewhere, perhaps? Children and the end of the Holocaust.

Children in the early years of antisemitic persecution. From assimilation to marginalization ; In the schoolroom ; "I decide who is a Jew" ; Training youth for jobs abroad ; Reichskristallnacht ; The dismissal of Jewish children from "German" schools ; What's in a name? Israel and Sara -- Children and the war. The first taste of conflict ; Caught in the crossfire: the war on civilians ; The war's long shadow: the last years of conflict -- Lives in the balance: escape and deportation. Strangers in a strange land: emigration ; victims of Einsatzgruppen activity ; "We've been picked up": roundups and deportations -- Children in the world of the ghetto. Into the ghetto ; "The garden of Eden": education in the Lodz ghetto ; "Give me your children": the "children's actions" ; Death and survival in the ghetto -- Children in the concentration camp universe. At the edge of the abyss ; Death at Auschwitz ; In a living hell: survival in camps -- Children in the web of racial hygiene policy. Compulsory sterilization ; The many faces of Lebensborn ; "Euthanasia" ; The danger of "Gypsy blood": Roma and Sinti ; children as "research material" -- The lives of others: "Aryan" children and the Nazi regime. Youth organizations in the third Reich ; Nonconformity and dissidence: the Edelweiss pirates ; Hearts and minds: Nazi propaganda ; Perpetrators and victims ; German children and the war -- The world of the child. Escape into learning ; At play during the Holocaust ; Innocence and knowledge ; In hopes and dreams: coping with the Holocaust -- Children and resistance and rescue. Youth and armed resistance ; Unarmed resistance: the children's war ; In hiding ; Children and aid organizations: the politics of rescue ; When rescue fails -- Elsewhere, perhaps? Children and the end of the Holocaust. "Over this field of death, peace breaks out": liberation ; The search for family members ; Where is home? ; The process of remembering.