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Hidden Children: Hardships - Photograph

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Hiding under a different religion

Some Jewish children survived the Holocaust because they were protected by people and institutions of other faiths.

Some Jewish children survived the Holocaust because they were protected by people and institutions of other faiths. Children quickly learned to master the prayers and rituals of their "adopted" religion in order to keep their Jewish identity hidden from even their closest friends. This photograph shows two hidden Jewish children, Beatrix Westheimer and her cousin Henri Hurwitz, with Catholic priest Adelin Vaes, on the occasion of Beatrix's First Communion. Ottignies, Belgium, May 1943.

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Augusta Feldhorn in hiding

Augusta Feldhorn stands next to a nun while in hiding.

Augusta Feldhorn stands next to a nun while in hiding. Augusta, a Jewish child, was in hiding under an assumed Christian identity. Belgium. 1942-1945.

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Page from the diary of Eugenia Hochberg

A page from the diary of Eugenia Hochberg, written while she was living in hiding in Brody, Poland.

A page from the diary of Eugenia Hochberg, written while she was living in hiding in Brody, Poland. The page contains a timeline of important events that happened during the war, such as deaths and deportations of family and friends. Brody, Poland, July 1943–March 1944.

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Jewish children in an orphanage after the war

After the war, thousands of Jewish children ended up in orphanages all over Europe as a result of the Holocaust.

After the war, thousands of Jewish children ended up in orphanages all over Europe as a result of the Holocaust. The toddlers in this children's home in Etterbeek, Belgium, survived in hiding, but their parents had been deported to Auschwitz.

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