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How young were children left alive in Auschwitz?
In the words of Rudolf Hoess, Commandant of Auschwitz, in his testimony at Nuremburg in 1946:
Those who were fit for work were sent into the camp. Others were sent immediately to the extermination ...
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How young were children left alive in Auschwitz?
If inability to work is your main argument, you should remember children have been heavily involved in the work force until recent times.See Child Labor. Children are still used as labor in some parts ...
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Request for information about an Auschwitz-Birkenau story
I have not found information relating directly to this individual child you ask about, but there is other discussion of imprisoned children coping with the horrors around them through play.
A blog ...
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How would an SS officer travel from Auschwitz to Berlin?
Some aspects can and have to observed for that endeavour, some cannot, some just can't be provided by me now, but some you are also free to invent.
Of course, try to be careful with what to 'invent' ...
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How young were children left alive in Auschwitz?
What's absurd (or, at least, one of the things that's absurd) about The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas is not that there was a 9-year old in the camp, but that a 9-year old in the camp had been given a ...
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Which names are correct? Mala vs Malka Zimetbaum and Edward vs Eduard Galinski?
Looks to me like a case of many compounding effects.
Firstly, Mala vs Malka. Polish WP entry (and the English one for that matter) both signify that her formal name was Malka Zimetbaum, but she was ...
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What aspects of Primo Levi's works are considered historically inaccurate?
I read through a lot of reviews, and the only thing I could find hinting at any inaccuracy at all was his own narrative voice. It turns out he had a life-long battle with depression (before and after ...
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