The systematic massacre of all children under 10 will forever be a stain on humanity–world history and facts
The systematic massacre of all children under 10 will forever be a stain on humanity. Children rounded up for deportation to the Chełmno death camp, September 1942.Public domain When men from the SS entered the Łódź Ghetto to take away all the young Jewish children, the effect on the parents was literally paralysing. In a state of overwhelming and total fear, many mothers were unable to move or lift a hand. Those who resisted were simply shot. Many mothers and fathers whose children had been taken by the Germans to be murdered hanged themselves. Seventy-eight years ago this week in the Łódź Ghetto, the Germans carried out one of the most shocking, depraved and grotesque incidents of the Holocaust: they took away all the children under ten and murdered them. By the time the operation ended, over 15,000 children had been transported to the death camp in Chełmno nad Nerem.Jewish Historical Institute At the end of August 1942, the head of the German administration Hans Biebow demanded that...