Jewish children of Polish descent as found in Auschwitz on the day of the camp's liberation - January 1945

Jewish children of Polish descent as found in Auschwitz on the day of the camp's liberation - January 1945

A photograph of Jewish children - inmates in the Auschwitz camp standing in front of the barbed wire fence of the camp, The photographed - the children who survived as found by the Red Army on the day of the camp's liberation - January 1945.

The Jewish children deported to Auschwitz were the vast majority of the children and boys murdered by the Nazi regime. According to information accumulated by the Yad Vashem Museum in the absence of available documentation of the atrocities, it is difficult to determine the exact number of children imprisoned or murdered there, and it is difficult to determine the number of children born in Auschwitz. The Nazis did everything they could to trace their exploits, Mainly through the destruction of documents and especially in the last phase of the war. As a rule, children who were not fit for work were killed immediately upon arrival without having undergone any registration procedure. The few who registered and were sent to work did not last long. Only pieces of information exist about child prisoners. Other documents show that on January 10, 1945, a few days before the final evacuation of the camp, there were still 940 boys and girls under the age of 14 in the Birkenau sub-camps. On January 26, the day before the camp was liberated, 435 boys and girls remained in one of the compound of the Birkenau women's camp. The liberated children were transferred to hospitals within the camp area organized by the Soviets and the Polish Red Cross in the main camp area immediately after the liberation. In general it can be concluded that in the first stage of the existence of the camp was the proportion of children and sons The number of registered youth is very low, but over time their number has steadily increased and reached its peak in 1944.

Size: 25x18 cm. Very good condition.