Children in the Holocaust
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During the Holocaust, children were especially vulnerable to death under the Nazi regime. An estimated 1.5 million children, nearly all Jewish, were murdered during the Holocaust, either directly by o
Warsaw Ghetto boy, perhaps the most iconic photograph representing children in the Holocaust
Jewish twins kept alive to be used in Mengele's medical experiments. These children were liberated from Auschwitz by the Red Army in January 1945.
A group of children wait in line at an Ustaša concentration camp
Children rounded up for deportation to the Chełmno extermination camp.
Josef Mengele
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Josef Mengele, often dubbed the "Angel of Death", was a German military officer and physician during World War II at the Soviet front and then at Auschwitz during the Holocaust. He conducted research
Children in the Holocaust
…children under conditions that would ensure the infant's death, if the race experts determined that the child would have insufficient German blood. Josef Mengele was a physician who worked at Auschwitz, a concentration camp. His research subjects were better fed and housed than other prisoners and temporarily…
Mengele at Solahütte in 1944
Selection of Hungarian Jews on the ramp at Birkenau, May/June 1944
(from l. to r.) Richard Baer, Josef Mengele, and Rudolf Höss at Solahütte in 1944 (Höcker Album)