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During the Holacaust, children were more susceptible to the harm they were going to face because of the vulnerable state they were in. More than 1.5 million Jews died in the Holacaust. There are only few children that were saved in the war through programs such as Kinderspart and One Thousand Holocaust. Other children survived on their own by staying in the concentration camps or in the ghetto. Robert Krell, a holacaust survivor was 5 years old when the war was occuring. His parents sacrificed leaving their only son so he could be safe during the war and brought him to the Muniks, a family friend that would keep his son safe. At the time Robert and his innocence did not know what was occuring, but with time he learned he was a Jew and the Munik family would help keep him safe. Robert never felt that he could express the terror he felt ,but he restrained his emotions to use them when the time was right. When the war ended, Robert had to return to his parents ,but he found it pointless because all of his family had been murdered. Robert was comfortable with the Muniks because they felt like home. After he Roberts return home other survivors also returned to their home. Their were child survivors that would share their stories, but the few that did not remember were told they were lucky to not remember such a horrific experience. Those that did remember had trauma ,but receive little or no help. Robert expresses that because of the trauma some children remained silent because for the people that would try to help them it was hard to hear. The silence among themselves caused painful memories they did not understand, 93 percent of children jews were murdered in the war. Those that cause harm to them was with a ferocity that they would be held accountable for. In 1951 Robert and his parents had migrated to Canada where he would feel liberated. He adapted to Canada and their language, but would still see the murders through the eyes of the holacaust survivors. In 1981 there was the First World Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors in Jersualm. Robert met the youngest survivor of Buchenwald, Rabbi Israel Meier. At the time Rabbi was 8years old and Robert was 5. A year passed and Robert had the idea to found “Child Holocaust Survivors’ Group of Los Angeles’’.Later he put together a panel in 1984 where child survivors, psychiatrist, and psychologist would speak in the “American Psychiatric Therapy Association”. There in estimation that about 1,600 people had attended who were holacuastst survivors. The panel impacted the children survivors because Robert explains they finally “found their voice” because they were all together. Only they were the ones that knew what they experienced and those experienced caused them to express themselves. They did not enjoy sharing the unpleasant memories ,but they felt that together they needed to tackle a problem they had with their identity and faith and the memories they were faced with. Since the first panel they have made it an annual event that has been held in Los Angeles, Toronto, Prague, Amsterdam, Montreal, Jerusalem, Houston, and Cracow. Dr Robert Krell was one of the few who surviced the Holocaust and became a Proffesor at Emeritus Psychiatry in the Univeristy of British Columbia in Vancuver, Canada. With the memories Robert had it helped him move forward and start panels where others who were in the same situation could express themselves.