77
Mirvis, Ephraim, 66
mobile murder units, 36–37
Nazis
beliefs of, 6
children stolen by, 58
and Einsatzgruppen roundups, 33–35,
34
and Gestapo roundups, 6, 17
rise to power, 44
and SS actions against Jews, 7, 22–23,
35
Night
(Wiesel), 64
nutzlose esser (
“useless eaters”), 24
orphanages, hiding in, 11
orphans
in ghettos, 23, 26
and Kindertransport children, 46
stolen children labeled as, 58
partisans, 50, 50–51
Pianist,The
(film), 64
Poland
camps in, 22
children stolen by Nazis in, 58
ghettos in, 21, 23, 34
See also
Auschwitz
Polanski, Roman, 64
postwar lives
emigration from Europe and, 60–62, 61
and lifelong effects of starvation, 26
and sharing experiences, 65, 65–66
and support groups, 62–63
and trauma from experiences, 60–62
pregnant women, killing of, 36
prussic acid, 37–40
rescue organizations
Central British Fund for German
Jewry, 44–45
Jewish Agency ( Jerusalem), 46–47
Kindertransport, 45–46, 46
Underground, 48–50
resistance fighters, 50, 50–51
Richard (survivor), 51
Ringelblum, Emanuel, 7–8, 23
Rosen, Ilana, 18
Roth, Chaya H., 14
sanitation problems
in ghettos, 23, 25
in hiding, 18
Schindler’s List
(film), 63
schools, 25
Schulz, Carol D., 34
Schutzstaffel (SS) paramilitary corps
and actions against Jews, 7
behavior of, in ghettos, 22–23
killing squads, 35
Sendak, Maurice, 30
sewers, hiding in, 14
Shoah Foundation, 63
Silberbart, Gert, 53–54
silence, need for, 18–20
slave laborers, 52
smuggling, 25–26
Sonderkommando, 40
Soumerai, Eve Nussbaum, 34
Spielberg, Steven, 63
starvation, 18, 24–25, 26
Staub, Ervin, 26
Steiner, Joseph, 48–49
stolen children, 58
survival
of boys and teenagers with partisans,
50, 50–51
competition for, 26
and Danish rescue, 49
by hiding
and living in disguise, 10–12, 11, 48
and multiple moves, 12
and pretending to be Christian,
12–15
psychological and emotional effects
of, 12, 14, 15
rules for, 15–16
in sewers, 14
in small, secret compartments, 17,
17–20
and treatment of children, 15–16
by rescue from Europe
by Central British Fund for German
Jewry, 44–45
by Jewish Agency ( Jerusalem), 46–47
by Kindertransport, 45–46, 46
