Holocaust Mothers

Mother’s Day is this Sunday and here are some ways Mothers showed courage during the Holocaust (these all happened.)

(Mothers and Children unknowingly walking to the Gas Chamber and their death at the Auschwitz Death Camp in German-Occupied Poland in the Summer of 1944.)

A Mother who tried to shield their Child from the insults, beatings and other violence they experienced every day.

A Mother who gave what little she had in her Starvation Diet to her Child so they could survive another day.

A Mother who tried to shield her Child from the bullets as they were both shot over an Open Pit.

A Mother who hid their Child all day in the Ghetto while the Mother was made to do Forced Labor, came back home tired and still tried to play and keep the Child’s spirits up.

A Mother who gave her Child to another Family or a Complete Stranger so the Child could live knowing she may never see them again.

A Mother who came to a Concentration or Death Camp Pregnant, gave birth there and tried to hide them in the Barracks so they weren’t discovered and killed.

A Mother who was young, healthy and selected for Forced Labor who willingly went to the Gas Chamber with her Child so they wouldn’t die alone and scared.

A Mother who Survived and found their Child who also Survived and had to relearn to live in the Civilized World once again.