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Looking Back at the Holocaust, Through a Child's Eyes
(New York Times) Isabel Kershner - Jakov Goldstein survived the Holocaust as a child by hiding alone for two years in a narrow attic, sustained by the books delivered by the daughter of the Polish family that shielded him. Eliyahu Rozdzial turned 13, hidden alone in the forest and farms around Dzialoszyce, Poland, after his family had been killed. And 4-year-old Martin Weyl survived life in the Terezin ghetto. These and other children are being featured in a new exhibition, "Children in the Holocaust: Stars without a Heaven," which opened this week at Yad Vashem. About 1.5 million children were killed during the Holocaust. Nazi ideology did not differentiate between adults and children, and the plan was to wipe out the Jewish people in its entirety.