Children in Auschwitz German Camp 1940-1945

Añadido: Jul 2, 2008

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The children liberated in KL Auschwitz on 27.01.1945. The youngest victims of Auschwitz. The fate of pregnant women and children during the evacuation march by Auschwitz prisoners in January 1945. Sick and pregnant women, without even elementary medical care, trudged along at the back of a column of exhausted female prisoners who were marched out Birkenau barracks. These miserable, suffering human skeletons, dressed in inadequate clothing, hungry for months, pressing loaves of rough black bread under their arms, trudge plodded with great difficulty through the snowdrifts. They stumbled frequently over the frozen, snow-covered corpses of prisoners. I remember that we were coming to a settlement in the evening of the first day. The dark shape of a hill rose before us, and at top of it a lighted house. We suddenly heard the shrieks of a prisoner seized by birth pangs. Unable to go on, she climbed down into the ditch and sat there. Dread came over us. We could do nothing to help her, because we had nothing, and besides that, stopping was forbidden. The pregnant woman's mother wanted to stay with her while she gave birth, but an SS man shoved her away and she returned in despair to the column. My friend Helena Pachecka, number 88202, and I were hoping that the pregnant woman would stay in the ditch and crawl under cover of darkness to the nearby house, where she might find someone to help her. But the malevolent German Nazis would not give even a mother in labor a chance. When we had gone a dozen or so steps further, we heard shots. The SS man had murdered the mother and the baby in her womb. This was something horrible for all of us, but especially for those who were pregnant. Source: Archives of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum. Prisoner KL Auschwitz no. 87947 Pole, Alina Cielemięcka-Naciażek from Poland. The photographs were taken immediately after the liberation of the camp, showing the saved children, the remaining camp buildings and objects related to their fate, and items that belonged to the murdered children.

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Tags: auschwitz  camp  concentration  crematorium  extermination  gaschamber  german  himmler  holocaust  jew  mengele  nazi  shoah  zyklon 

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