The stories of the children of the Holocaust are stories that are rarely told.

These are some of them:

Eduard Hornemann:
Eduard was the son of Philip and Elizabeth Hornemann. Eduard was born in
Eindhoven, Holland in 1932. When the Germans took over Holland in May
of 1940, Eduard was an eight-year old school boy. Since his father, Philip,
was an executive of the Philips Corporation, they didnt get that much harsh
treatment like the other concentration camp prisoners got. This type of harsh
treatments included beating them and giving them little food and water.
They were sent to Vught, a Dutch concentration camp, where they were put
to work by the Philips operation which had employed over 3,000 prisoners.
Eduards family received extra rations of food and was given the special
privilege of living with each other. On June 3, 1944, his family was sent to the Birkenau death
camp in Poland. Eduard remained with his mother and was sent to the womens barracks.
Conditions in the camp were very poor. There was very little food and disease spread like a
wildfire. Three months after they had arrived, Eduards mother caught a disease called Typhoid
and passed away soon after. A few days later, Eduard and his brother were used in the terrible
medical experiments that doctors at the concentration camp did on specific Jews, most likely
twins. In the fall of 1944, Eduard and his brother were taken to the Neuengamme concentration
camp in Germany where they were injected with Tuberculosis cultures which caused them to
become very ill.
On April 20, 1945, when the British were near, the sick children were put into a truck and taken
to a school in Hamburg, Germany. The children were injected with morphine and hung. Eduard
was among those children. Eduard Hornemann was only twelve years old.

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Natan Abbe:

Natan Abbe was the son of Carola and Israel Abbe and was born in Lodz, Poland. His father
owned a store where they sold hats, gloves, and other accessories. He had two sisters and a
younger brother. Lodz was a very large city and home to over 233,000 Jews. Its population was
made up of Jews, Poles, and Germans. All the people lived in the city in peace. When the Nazi
soldiers came to take over in September of 1939, Natan was a fifteen year old schoolboy. The
anti-Jew restrictions were instantly enacted. Some of these restrictions were that the Jews had a
curfew, they were prohibited to go to religious services, their radios were taken away, and they
were forced to wear a yellow star. On February 8, 1940, all Jews were forced to live in the run
down part of the city. On May 1, 1940, the ghetto was closed off. The living conditions were
horrible. There was no heat, little food or medicine, and very little sanitation. People died on the
streets of starvation, disease, and exposure. Yet, they still treated life as if it were normal.
German officers would always harass the Jews, raid their apartments, arrest people on the streets
and shoot them for the littlest reasons.
Natan Abbe was shot to death in late 1940 by a German Officer at the ghetto front gates. He was
sixteen years old.

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Tsila Marcus:
Tsila Marcus was born is Rovno, Poland on July 14, 1939. Tsila
was two years old when the Nazis invaded her town. Her father was
murdered along with 8,000 other Jews by the Germans. The other Jews
were locked in a ghetto where many died from starvation and disease.
Tsilas mother was put to work as other strong looking women were.
These women were chosen by the Germans to do some sort of job by

working for the Germans. Tsilas mother, Mrs. Marcus, was to work for the mayor. While
working she was acquainted by a German book keeper. One day, he told her he promised to do
anything to save her life. Tsilas mother was told to go to a Germans house and hide there. As
Tsila and her mother were hiding, the Nazis were already planning on killing the remaining Jews
in the ghetto. There had already been mass graves prepared for in the forest. Mrs. Marcus and
Tsila dressed as Polish peasants and left the city to Koretz. They walked barefoot to the ghetto to
smuggle relatives out. Upon arrival they had found out that theyre relatives had been murdered
by the Germans. Then they received a letter from their German friend to leave the city. Then she
immediately told everyone in the ghetto. Many tried to escape, but were caught and murdered.
Tsila and her mother dressed as Polish peasants once again and escaped to the forest. As they
were in the forest, they found partisans (the underground resistance fighters) and Mrs. Marcus
left her daughter with a peasant because she decided that living in the forest for a four year old
was too young. Desperate for his own life, the peasant abandoned Tsila. Tsila lived in the forest
for six weeks. The days and nights were very cold. She lived off of flowers and grasses and hid
with every noise. Found by partisans, she reunited with her mother. When she found her mother,
Tsila looked like a wild animal. Moss was growing in her hair and she had become mute. She
and her mother stayed with the partisans until liberation. Tsila showed them where they could
find food in the forest when they were cut off from their supply. She was only five years old.
Tsila Marcus and her Mother were fortunate to have survived from the Holocaust. Over 1 and a
half million kids were murdered by the Germans during the Holocaust, Tsila was one of the very
few to have survived.

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Frida Scheps:
Frida Scheps was born in October 1936 in Paris, France. She was
born into a Russian-Immigrant family living in France. Fridas
father was an engineer and wanted to move to pursue his career
and move. Shortly before the war, he traveled to Jerusalem to
prepare the move. While he was in Jerusalem war broke out.
Frida and her mom were trapped in France. In 1940, the Nazis
invaded France and the liberating of the Jews began. Finding
how to save her daughter, Fridas mom put Frida in a Catholic
convent school. Hidden from her past, she was at the top of her
Catechism class and asked to be baptized as a Catholic. Fridas
mother sent her a letter begging her not to abandon her original
faith. frida got packages from her mother on a regular basis.
Eventually, the packages had stopped coming. Frida understood
that her mother had been arrested and taken by the Germans. Some nights, her dreams haunted
her by staying truth to her Jewish heritage. At the end of the war, nine-year old Frida fled the
school because she promised to herself that she would never leave her original faith. Two years
later, she reunited with her father in Jerusalem.

Although the Germans murdered several million Jews during the Holocaust, Frida and most of
the French community survived, thanks to the nuns at the Church, where had Frida stayed at.

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