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"The actual number of children who died during the Holocaust will never accurately be known. Estimates range as high as 1.5 million, including more than 1.2 million Jewish children. In addition, tens of thousands of Gypsy children and thousands of handicapped German, Polish French, and Eastern European children were also murdered while under Nazi rule." (http://www.humanitas-international.org/holocaust/children.htm) Although children were rarely the targets of Nazi violence simply for the fact that they …

…will not continue to be passed down to future generations." (http://holocaust-children.tripod.com) The severity of the Holocaust is apparent even today. One could only imagine the cases of mistreatment that went unknown during the Holocaust. Children were the most innocent victims, because they had no voice and were simply used as pawns in the Nazi's mass genocide. Across cultures, nothing is more somber, heart wrenching, and disparaging than the death of 1.2 million children.