![Some Jewish children survived the Holocaust because they were protected by people and institutions of other faiths. [LCID: 58197]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/fc462e7a-a9ff-4d3b-88f4-49643d9b4951.jpg)
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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