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 a million children lost their lives. Heart after heart was breaking because of Hitler, the odious leader who advocated the death penalty for anyone who differed from a German or a Christian. It is essential to do everything possible to save a child's life. Hiding a child during this brutal time was another step forward in the fight for what was right. Rahel Renate Mann is proud to say she is a Holocaust survivor. She is now 75 years old and still lives in Berlin, where she was once hidden from the Nazis. Thrown out of the hospital as a newborn in June 1937, she continued to grow up with the weight of the horrors of the Holocaust on her shoulders. In 1941, her mother was kidnapped and the Vater family hid Rahel. Eventually, she overstayed her welcome and the Vater family could no longer take the pressure. She was sent underground and met Ettel Friedrich Von Rebenau who kept the Jewish faith alive. They sang together until he was kidnapped when she was seven and sent back to the Vater family. She stayed there until she found her mother seriously ill. Like Rahel, the children often had to separate from their parents. The emotional effects were consistent. Often children suffered in silence because it was too dangerous to move or speak. In other cases, children might have lived openly rather than in attics or cellars. That was only if they didn't look Jewish. For example, a person with blond hair and blue eyes is considered to look more non-Ar...... middle of paper ......s. In France, a relief group called Œuvre de Secours aux Enfants was able to smuggle children out of internment camps. Compared to rescue groups, there were also individual rescuers. A handful of individuals were able to do so and stand up for what they believed was right. Malka Fugtazki from Lithuania saved children from the Kovno ghetto. She did this by giving them sleeping pills and tying the child to her body. With the help of a Jewish guard, she was able to bring them to safety in a Lithuanian orphanage. The Nazis forced these ghettos by threatening the population. They threatened to shoot the hostages unless a judenräte, a Jewish council, was formed. These councils controlled the ghettos. Once put in a ghetto, you had to stay there, and leaving without guard was punishable by death...