About this website

On the website www.uprootedchildren.eu, you will find teaching materials and information about children who, on the orders of the head of the SS, Heinrich Himmler, were abducted from German-occupied parts of countries such as Poland, the Czech Republic and Ukraine during the Second World War and taken back to Germany, to the heart of the German Reich, where they were subjected to forced “Aryanization”. To this day, their story is almost completely unknown, although they too count among the victims of National Socialist crimes.

The website is available in English, German, Polish, Czech and Ukrainian. This is, however, not the case for all of the teaching materials, as some of them are only intended for a particular audience in one of the countries in question.