A Deathly Journey
The means for getting the abducted children to Germany were far from safe.
Ironically, many of the children were put on cargo trains or cattle carts without any food, water or decent shelter. During the hot season, children suffered from suffocation and died, whereas in the winter many children froze to death.
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Terror In Front Of Their Eyes
The Nazis stripped these children from their parents, for all to see. “I saw children being taken from their mothers, some were even torn from the breast.
It was a terrible sight: the agony of the mothers and fathers, the beating by the Germans, and the crying of the children,” recalls an eye-witness.