Reply To: Children and the Holocaust

I believe in putting off telling them as long as possible. I doubt they’d be traumatized after they found out because we didn’t tell them earlier. Some of my children are named after great-grandparents who were Shoah victims, and I don’t know how they’re going to react to that. I like miritchka’s idea, though, of giving them the general idea, without mentioning the horrible specifics about the kinds of things that happened and the overall scale of it.