During the Holocaust, What did children do while at the work camps?

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Sweater Kitteh

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Watching Schindler's list recently, I noticed that the children were playing on play-grounds, did this happen?

My grandfather was a teen while at a camp, and once it ended, he was married to my grandmother, but he says he can't recall.
Like in Schindler's list, too where they were taken away from the camp in trucks, and many children went to hide.
 
Very young children were not considered fit and able enough to carry out the jobs that the adults did so they were exterminated by the 'shower' method.
 
And to add onto the excellent postings above it was at 'Buchenwald'
8 km north West of Weimar where it was so necessary to test their Zyclon-B product out for the first time on 250 children (Gypsy) with shocking results because it appeared that the dosage was not quite high enough. (PS, the results being bad enough just the same)
However, the dosage was increased considerably on the next test to include 600 Russian prisoners of war for the first time at Auschwitz in
September 1941.
 
Took showers, if you catch my drift. All prisoners under a certain age were generally killed on the first day. Usually, the Concentration Camps were organized so that the very young and very old were immediately killed. Perhaps this varied from camp to camp, and with the race of the children.
Peace
 
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