Age played an important role in the experiences of many people during the Holocaust. Very young children and the elderly were in an especially vulnerable position, but the youth and relative good health of teenagers and young adults often proved to be lifesaving.
children & youth
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American College Students and the Nazi Threat
Americans and the Holocaust"As Others See It: The Olympic Question"
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Public Health under the Third Reich
Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the Holocaust"Born Out of Necessity"
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American College Students and the Nazi Threat
Americans and the Holocaust"Can America Afford to Condemn Hitler for His Racial Policies?"
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Family Life During the Holocaust
Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the Holocaust"Family Life" in the Łódź Ghetto
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Family Life During the Holocaust
Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the Holocaust"Food, Money, and Human Life"
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Nazi Ideals and American Society
Americans and the Holocaust"German Youth in the USA"
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Public Health under the Third Reich
Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the Holocaust"Healthy Woman - Healthy Nation"
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Family Life During the Holocaust
Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the Holocaust"Is This Unmanly?"
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Public Health under the Third Reich
Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the Holocaust"Nazis Hit Alcohol, Tobacco"
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Jewish Religious Life and the Holocaust
Jewish Perspectives on the Holocaust"On the Danger of Forced Conversion"
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Artistic Responses to Persecution
Jewish Perspectives on the Holocaust"Song of the Oppressed"
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Public Health under the Third Reich
Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the Holocaust"The English Disease"
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American College Students and the Nazi Threat
Americans and the Holocaust"What War? it's Homecoming at Illinois!"
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Objects of Memory
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustAddress Book Owned by Richard Weilheimer
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Holocaust Diaries
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustAnonymous Diary from the Warsaw Ghetto
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US Government Rescue Efforts
Americans and the HolocaustAttorney General Francis Biddle to Secretary of State Cordell Hull
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Postwar Justice
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustAuschwitz Trial Testimony of Otto Wolken
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The Holocaust and the Moving Image
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustBenjamin Gasul, "The Jewish Ghetto"
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Artistic Responses to Persecution
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustBetty Straus, "Our Cabin"
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Family Life During the Holocaust
Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the HolocaustBrochure for the Lebensborn Program
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Post-Holocaust Testimony
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustChildren's Questionnaire of Josef Munzer
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Concentration Camp Prisoners
Belonging and Exclusion: Reshaping Society under Nazi RuleChristmas Card Given to a Polish Prisoner at Ravensbrück
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Higher Education in Nazi Germany
Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the HolocaustComplaint about Declining Enrollment at Heidelberg University
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Jewish Refugees and the Holocaust
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustCorrespondence between Franz Blumenstein and the American Friends Service Committee
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German Police and the Nazi Regime
Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the HolocaustCriminal Complaint against Douglas Bamberger
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Family Life During the Holocaust
Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the HolocaustDecision in the Case of Franz Josef Seitz
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Holocaust Diaries
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustDeposition of Pesakh Burshteyn
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Holocaust Diaries
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustDiary of Đura Rajs
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Holocaust Diaries
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustDiary of Elisabeth Ornstein
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Gendered Experiences of Jewish Persecution
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustDiary of Irene Hauser
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Holocaust Diaries
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustDiary of Jacques Berenholc
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Medical Care, Nazism, and the Holocaust
Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the HolocaustDiary of Janusz Korczak
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Concentration Camp Prisoners
Belonging and Exclusion: Reshaping Society under Nazi RuleDiary of Klara Samuels
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Holocaust Diaries
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustDiary of Michal Kraus
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Holocaust Diaries
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustDiary of Moryc Brajtbart
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Holocaust Diaries
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustDiary of Peter Feigl
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Holocaust Diaries
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustDiary of Susi Hilsenrath
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Medical Care, Nazism, and the Holocaust
Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the HolocaustFalse Identity Documents of Mordechai Tenenbaum
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Everyday Encounters with Fascism
Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the HolocaustFilm of an Amusement Park in Nazi Germany
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Nazi Propaganda and National Unity
Belonging and Exclusion: Reshaping Society under Nazi RuleFilm of Germans Burning Books
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Everyday Encounters with Fascism
Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the HolocaustFilm of Hitler Postcards on Display
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Roma and Sinti in Nazi Germany
Belonging and Exclusion: Reshaping Society under Nazi RuleFilm of Sinti Children at Catholic Children's Home
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Nazi Propaganda and National Unity
Belonging and Exclusion: Reshaping Society under Nazi RuleFilm of Woman and Child with Propaganda Displays
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Post-Holocaust Testimony
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustFortunoff Oral History with Menachem S.
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Objects of Memory
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustFriendship Ring from the Riga Ghetto
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Jewish Displaced Persons in Postwar Europe
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustGeorge Kadish, "The Persecuted"
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Targets of Eugenics
Belonging and Exclusion: Reshaping Society under Nazi RuleGerman Motherhood Medals
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Jewish Displaced Persons in Postwar Europe
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustGreta Fischer, Camp Map
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Public Health under the Third Reich
Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the HolocaustHitler Youth Training Film
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Artistic Responses to Persecution
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustHorst Rotholz, "Purim Song"
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The Holocaust in Yugoslavia
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustLetter from Adolf Renert to the National Anti-Fascist Council for the National Liberation of Croatia
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Wartime Correspondence
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustLetter from Isaak Shmaruk to Sulamif Tsybulnik
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Family Life During the Holocaust
Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the HolocaustLetter from Karl Kretschmer to His Family
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Wartime Correspondence
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustLetter from Ruth Goldbarth to Edit Blau
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The Holocaust in Yugoslavia
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustLetter from the Jewish Community of Brod na Savi to the Jewish Communities of Zagreb and Sarajevo
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American College Students and the Nazi Threat
Americans and the HolocaustLetter from Yale Students to Charles Lindbergh
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The Holocaust in Yugoslavia
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustLetter of Hinko Gottlieb to the Jewish Community of Zagreb
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Jewish Community Documents
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustLetter of Selig Brodetsky and Leonard Stein to the British Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
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Targets of Eugenics
Belonging and Exclusion: Reshaping Society under Nazi RuleLetter to SS Doctor Gregor Ebner
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Artistic Responses to Persecution
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustLeyb Kvitko, "Etele"
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The Holocaust and the Moving Image
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustMarcus Tennenbaum, Family Home Movies
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Higher Education in Nazi Germany
Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the HolocaustMemo Regarding Maria-Elisabeth Koch
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Holocaust Diaries
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustMemoir of Fryderyk Winnykamień
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Artistic Responses to Persecution
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustNatan Rotenberg, "Peace to the People of Good Will"
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Roma and Sinti in Nazi Germany
Belonging and Exclusion: Reshaping Society under Nazi RuleOral History with Karl Stojka
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Medical Care, Nazism, and the Holocaust
Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the HolocaustOral History with Marie Ondrášová
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Family Life During the Holocaust
Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the HolocaustOral History with Niklas Frank
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Roma and Sinti in Nazi Germany
Belonging and Exclusion: Reshaping Society under Nazi RuleOral History with Rita Prigmore
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Targets of Eugenics
Belonging and Exclusion: Reshaping Society under Nazi RuleOral History with Robert Wagemann
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The Holocaust and the Moving Image
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustOSE footage from Quincy-sous-Sénart
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Everyday Encounters with Fascism
Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the HolocaustPages from the Antisemitic Children's Book The Poisonous Mushroom
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Higher Education in Nazi Germany
Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the HolocaustPamphlet Distributed by the White Rose Movement
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Jewish Community Documents
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustPetition of Asna Zhurkovska
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Jewish Community Documents
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustPetition of Meir Halle
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Everyday Encounters with Fascism
Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the HolocaustPhoto from a Public Pool in Fürth, Germany
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Everyday Encounters with Fascism
Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the HolocaustPhoto of Italian Fascist Youth Group Marching in Munich
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Public Health under the Third Reich
Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the HolocaustPhotograph of "Strength through Joy” Event at Strandbad Wannsee
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Experiences of Forced Labor in Wartime Europe
Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the HolocaustPhotograph of Jews Cleaning Streets in Vienna
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Artists and Visual Culture in Wartime Europe
Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the HolocaustPhotograph of Prisoners in a Greenhouse
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Concentration Camp Prisoners
Belonging and Exclusion: Reshaping Society under Nazi RulePhotograph of Romani Women at Bergen-Belsen
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Roma and Sinti in Nazi Germany
Belonging and Exclusion: Reshaping Society under Nazi RulePhotograph of Theresia Winterstein and Gabriel Reinhardt
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Medical Care, Nazism, and the Holocaust
Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the HolocaustPhotographs of Lala Grunfeld
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Jewish Displaced Persons in Postwar Europe
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustPortrait of a Jewish Youth with Disabilities Named Eric
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Roma and Sinti in Nazi Germany
Belonging and Exclusion: Reshaping Society under Nazi RulePostwar Testimony of the Hodoschi Family
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Nazi Propaganda and National Unity
Belonging and Exclusion: Reshaping Society under Nazi RulePropaganda Film on Community Welfare
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Everyday Encounters with Fascism
Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the HolocaustPublic Humiliation of a Young Couple
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Higher Education in Nazi Germany
Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the HolocaustReport on the Camaraderie House for Female Students of Göttingen
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Experiences of Forced Labor in Wartime Europe
Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the HolocaustReport on the Rühen Home for Children of Forced Laborers
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Higher Education in Nazi Germany
Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the HolocaustRequest for the Investigation of Professor Hans Peters
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Medical Care, Nazism, and the Holocaust
Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the HolocaustRequest to Replace Nurse Anna Hölzer
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Post-Holocaust Testimony
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustShoah Outtake with Gertrude Schneider
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American College Students and the Nazi Threat
Americans and the HolocaustStriking Students Take Oath at Campus Recreation Hall
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Higher Education in Nazi Germany
Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the HolocaustTelegram Regarding the "Action against the Un-German Spirit"
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Objects of Memory
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustTrap Door to a Hiding Place
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Family Life During the Holocaust
Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the HolocaustTrial Testimony of Rosa Schnedlitz
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Post-Holocaust Testimony
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustUSC Shoah Foundation Oral History with Michael Kraus
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Post-Holocaust Testimony
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustUSC Shoah Foundation Oral History with Peter Feigl
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Artistic Responses to Persecution
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustUSC Shoah Foundation Oral History with Robert Ness
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Family Life During the Holocaust
Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the HolocaustUSHMM Interview with Gideon Frieder
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Post-Holocaust Testimony
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustUSHMM Oral History with Charlene Schiff
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Gendered Experiences of Jewish Persecution
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustUSHMM Oral History with Dora Goldstein Roth
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Artistic Responses to Persecution
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustWładysław Szlengel, "Final Exams"
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Objects of Memory
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustWooden Pen Made in a French Internment Camp
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Artists and Visual Culture in Wartime Europe
Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the HolocaustZine from German-Occupied Greece