Image: Romani Kids ww2

Description: Romani children at the St. Josefspflege orphanage in Mulfingen, Germany, 1943. Thirty-nine Romani children (20 boys and 19 girls) were separated from their parents as part of a study. Eva Justin of the Institute for the Study of Racial Hygiene studied them for her doctoral dissertion titled "Lebensschicksale artfremd erzogener Zigeunerkinder und ihre Nachkommen" (The fate of Gypsy children and their offspring raised in alien environments) was accepted by the Mathematics-Science Faculty of Berlin University in 1943 and was published in 1944. In the preface Justin explains her hope that her "study will serve as a basis for future race hygience laws regulating such unworthy primitive elements." The children were then sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau where most perished (USHMM 1994, 41–42).
Title: Romani Kids ww2
Credit: http://www.ushmm.org/lcmedia/film/wlc/image/dfg0347c.jpg "Romani (Gypsy) children used in racial studies" Mulfingen, Germany, probably 1943, via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. See complete film.
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