An emaciated child eats in the streets of the Warsaw ghetto. Warsaw, Poland, between 1940 and 1943. Photograph »

Children eating in the ghetto streets. Warsaw, Poland, between 1940 and 1943. Photograph »

Family members say goodbye to a child through a fence at the ghetto's central prison where children, the sick, and the elderly were held before deportation to Chelmno during the "Gehsperre" action. Lodz, Poland, September 1942. Photograph »

Deportation of Jewish children from the Lodz ghetto, Poland, during the "Gehsperre" Aktion, September 1942. Photograph »

Two young brothers, seated for a family photograph in the Kovno ghetto. One month later, they were deported to the Majdanek camp. Kovno, Lithuania, February 1944. Photograph »

Soon after liberation, surviving children of the Auschwitz camp walk out of the children's barracks. Poland, after January 27, 1945. Photograph »

Soon after liberation, camp survivors from Buchenwald's "Children's Block 66"—a special barracks for children. Germany, after April 11, 1945. Photograph »

Jewish children sheltered by the Protestant population of the village of Le Chambon-sur-Lignon. France, between 1941 and 1944. Photograph »

Father Bruno with Jewish children he hid from the Germans. Yad Vashem recognized Father Bruno as "Righteous Among the Nations." Belgium, wartime. Photograph »

Two young cousins shortly before they were smuggled out of the Kovno ghetto. A Lithuanian family hid the children and both girls survived the war. Kovno, Lithuania, August 1943. Photograph »

Children in the Bad Reichenhall displaced persons camp. Germany, 1945. Photograph »

A girl in the Kloster Indersdorf children's center who was photographed in an attempt to help locate surviving relatives. Such photographs of both Jewish and non-Jewish children were published in newspapers to facilitate the reunification of families. Germany, after May 1945. Photograph »

Jewish refugee children gather in the US zone of occupation in Germany, en route to Palestine. One refugee waves a Zionist flag. Frankfurt, Germany, April 10, 1946. Photograph »

German Jewish orphans arrive at the Marseille railroad station, en route to Palestine as part of Aliyah Bet ("illegal" immigration). Marseille, France, March 25, 1948. Photograph »