Children in a ghetto school
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 The Germans especially targeted children, killing more than 4,200 in the Great Action of October 1941. In August 1942 they ordered that ghetto schools be closed, and parents feared letting their children leave home. Forced to behave like grownups, older children helped care for younger siblings and worked in the council's vegetable gardens. Some joined adult labor brigades. Still, a semblance of childhood was preserved. Clandestine schools opened, and while deprived of their normal toys, younger children invented new games such as "forced labor," "airfield," "smuggling inspections," and "actions."
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Children in the ghetto
Children in the ghetto
Children in the ghetto
Children in the ghetto
Children in the ghetto
Orphans hidden in a ghetto hospital ward.
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