Image: Children in the Holocaust concentration camp liberated by Red Army
Description: Child survivors of the Holocaust filmed few days after the liberation of Auschwitz concentration camp by the Red Army, January, 1945. Still photograph from footage shot by the Alexander Voroncov from the film unit of the First Ukrainian Front. Some of the tiny percentage of children not immediately killed upon arrival at the camp, this group includes Jewish twins who had been kept alive to be used in experiments by Dr. Josef Mengele. Seven of the children Gabi Neumann, Marta Weiss, Bracha Katz, Tomy Shacham, Erika Dohan and the brothers Shmuel and Pavel (Palo) Schelach were from Slovakia.
Title: Children in the Holocaust concentration camp liberated by Red Army
Credit: The image from the cover of "A History of the Holocaust" by Yehuda Bauer (ISBN 0531155765) Credits: USHMM/State Archives of the Russian Federation
Author: Alexander Voroncov
Permission: Public domain according to http://resources.ushmm.org/inquery/uia_doc.php/photos/15523?hr=null (see also https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/pa14532)
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