Approximately 1.1 million Jewish children were murdered during the Holocaust. This book from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies tells the story of the Holocaust through the eyes, and the fates, of its youngest victims. Documents and complementary text examine the arc of persecutory policies directed against European Jewry and its impact upon Jewish children and adolescents. Additional chapters reflect upon the experience of non-Jewish children as victims, perpetrators, and bystanders during World War II.

Children in the early years of antisemitic persecution -- Children and the war -- Lives in the balance: escape and deportation -- Children in the world of the ghetto -- Children in the concentration camp universe -- Children in the web of racial hygiene policy -- The lives of others: "Aryan" children and the Nazi regime -- The world of the child -- Children and resistance and rescue -- Elsewhere, perhaps? Children and the end of the Holocaust.