"On Auschwitz" (8): Children at Auschwitz

Using only estimates based on the examination of the existing
incomplete documentation, it can only be acknowledged that there
were around 232,000 children aged under 15 and youth aged under
18 among the at least 1.3 million people deported to the German
Nazi Auschwitz camp during the almost 5-year period of its
operation. This number includes around 216,000 children and youth
of Jewish origin, 11,000 Roma and Sinti, at least 3000 Polish,
and over 1000 Belarusian, Russian, Ukrainian and other children
and youth. The number of children registered as prisoners in the
first years of operation of Auschwitz was low, but it steadily
increased to reach a maximum in the latter half of 1944.


Dr Wanda Witek Malicka from the Memorial’s Research Center talks
about the fate of children in Auschwitz.