Were children really born in concentration camps?

Children born in Auschwitz. In the early period of the existence of the women's camp, children born there were put to death, regardless of their ethnicity, without being entered in the camp records. From mid-1943, non-Jewish newborns were permitted to live. read more

Search "Jewish children born in concentration camps" and you'll find quite a few stories like this one: Six Jewish babies born in Dachau reunite 65 years later U.S. soldiers who liberated a Nazi concentration camp in April 1945 were amazed to discover, among the countless famished and dead, seven Jewish mothers and their babies, who had somehow avoided execution or starvation. read more

3) children born in ghettos and camps who survived because prisoners hid them 4) children, usually over age 12, who were used as laborers and as subjects of medical experiments 5) children killed during reprisal operations or so-called anti-partisan operations. read more

Children born to Jewish women were put to death until November 1944, when the mass extermination of the Jews was halted. Children born in the family camp for Jews from Terezin were not put to death; there are, however, no extant records as to how many children were born there. read more