The cruel and difficult years these children must have faced - living in the ghettos of East European cities, being transported to the concentration camps, being separated from parents and loved ones, and not being old enough to comprehend. Children, as adults, did their utmost to survive, but escape was not always possible. There were lucky ones, saved, adopted and hidden by moral people of conscience - Righteous Gentiles. These Righteous Gentiles are held in exteme esteem by the Jewish people, and honored especially at Yad Vashem. But so many children were doomed to perish, and no one is left to mourn them.
Nothing remains - either of their life or their death.
On the somber occasion of Holocaust Remembrance Day, as the siren wails, we stand in loving memory of these multitudes of nameless children, and of all victims of the Holocaust. As a parent of three teenagers growing up in Israel, it is important to me to find the ways to help my children learn of the Holocaust our people went through. You can read about Raute's Trip To Poland. Afterwards Raute was asked to talk about her trip, at the Holocaust eve program held on our moshav. The Holocaust is difficult to understand - its immensity, and its evil.