Patricia Heberer, PhD, museum historian, Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, is a specialist on medical crimes and eugenics policies in Nazi Germany.

• Author’s IntroductionAbbreviationsIntroduction by Nechama TecChapter One: Children in the Early Years of Anti-Semitic Persecution–From Assimilation to Marginalization–In the Schoolroom–“I Decide Who Is a Jew”–Training Youth for Jobs Abroad–Reichskristallnacht–The Dismissal of Jewish Children from “German” Schools–What’s in a Name? Israel and SaraChapter Two: Children and the War–The First Taste of Conflict–Caught in the Crossfire: The War on Civilians–The War’s Long Shadow: The Last Years of ConflictChapter Three: Lives in the Balance: Escape and Deportation–Strangers in a Strange Land: Emigration–Victims of Einsatzgruppen Activity–“We’ve Been Picked Up”: Roundups and DeportationsChapter Four: Children in the World of the Ghetto–Into the Ghetto–“The Garden of Eden”: Education in the Lódz Ghetto–“Give Me Your Children”: The “Children’s Actions”–Death and Survival in the GhettoChapter Five: In the Concentration Camp Universe–At the Edge of the Abyss–Death at Auschwitz–In a Living Hell: Survival in the CampsChapter Six: Children in the Web of Racial Hygiene Policy–Compulsory Sterilization–The Many Faces of Lebensborn–“Euthanasia”–The Danger of “Gypsy Blood”: Roma and Sinti–Children as “Research Material”Chapter Seven: The Lives of Others: "Aryan" Children and the Nazi Regime–Youth Organizations in the Third Reich–Nonconformity and Dissidence: The Edelweiss Pirates–Hearts and Minds: Nazi Propaganda–Perpetrators and Victims–German Children and the WarChapter Eight: The World of the Child–Escape into Learning–At Play during the Holocaust–Innocence and Knowledge–In Hopes and Dreams: Coping with the HolocaustChapter Nine: Rescue and Resistance–Youth and Armed Resistance–Unarmed Resistance: The Children’s War–In Hiding–Children and Aid Organizations: The Politics of Rescue–When Rescue FailsChapter Ten: Elsewhere Perhaps? Children and the End of the Holocaust–“Over This Field of Death, Peace Breaks Out”: Liberation–The Search for Family Members–Where Is Home?–The Process of RememberingList of DocumentsBibliographyGlossaryIndexAbout the Author

This substantial volume narrates and contextualizes the complex experiences of the youngest victims of the Holocaust. Of the six million murdered Jews of Europe, 1.1 million were children. The book not only honors their memory, but also gives a voice to the children who were killed and to those who survived the ordeal in hiding, in ghettos, or in concentration camps.