The Holocaust began on January 30, 1933 and ended on May 8, 1945. During the Holocaust eleven million people were killed under the rule of Adolf Hitler. Of these eleven million people, six million Jews and one million children had lost their lives. Hearts were broken one after another, because of Hitler, the hateful ruler who advocated the punishment of death for anyone who differed from a German or a Christian. It was essential to do everything possible to save a child's life. Hiding a child during this brutal time was another step forward in fighting for what was right. Rahel Renate Mann is proud to say she is a Holocaust survivor. She is now 75 and still lives in Berlin, where she was once hidden by the Nazis. Thrown from hospital as an infant in June 1937, she continued to grow with the weight of the horrors of the Holocaust on her shoulders. In 1941, her mother was kidnapped and the Vater family hid Rahel. In the end she overstayed her welcome, and the Vater family could no longer bear the pressure. She was sent underground and met Ettel Friedrich Von Rebenau who kept the Jewish faith alive. They sang together until he was taken when she turned seven and she was sent back to the Vater family. There he remained until he was reunited with his mother, who was mortally ill. Similar to Rahel, children had to be separated from their parents many times. The emotional effects were consistent. Children often suffered in silence because it was too dangerous to move or speak. In other cases, children may have been able to live outdoors rather than in attics or cellars. That's only if they didn't look Jewish. For example, someone with blonde hair and blue eyes is considered more non-Ar...... middle of paper......s. In France, a rescue group called Œuvre de Secours aux Enfants (Organization to Save Children) managed to smuggle children out of internment camps. Compared to rescue groups, there were also individual rescuers. There were a handful of people who were able to do that and stand up for what they believed was right. Malka Fugtazki, Lithuanian, saved children from the Kovno ghetto. He did this by giving them sleeping pills and tying the child to his body. With the help of a Jewish guard he managed to take them to safety in a Lithuanian orphanage. The Nazis forced these ghettos by threatening the people. They threatened to shoot the hostages if a judenräte, a Jewish council, was not formed. These councils were in control of the ghettos. Once placed in the ghetto you had to stay there, and leaving without a guard was punishable by death.