<p>A group of children who were sheltered in <a href="/narrative/11043">Le Chambon-sur-Lignon</a>, a town in southern France. Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, France, August 1942.</p>
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Children were especially vulnerable to Nazi persecution. As many as 1.5 million children, about 1 million of them Jewish, were killed by Nazi Germany and its collaborators.

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United Nations personnel vaccinate an 11-year-old concentration camp survivor who was a victim of medical experiments at the Auschwitz camp. Photograph taken in the Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp, Germany, May 1946.
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11-year-old girl who was a victim of medical experiments at Auschwitz
A 13-year-old orphan, a survivor of the Mauthausen concentration camp. Photograph taking following liberation of the camp. Austria, May 1945.
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13-year-old survivor of the Mauthausen concentration camp
Abraham and his family fled from Berlin to Amsterdam in October 1938. They found refuge in the Netherlands until January 28, 1943, when all the members of the Muhlbaum family, except Abraham, were deported to Westerbork. Abraham escaped over the rooftops during the round-up. He gradually established a new life as a member of a Dutch resistance group that included Joop Westerweel. In 1944, Abraham was arrested as a member of the resistance (his Jewish identity remained hidden). He was held in several prisons and transit camps before being deported to Neuengamme on May 24, 1944. As a "Night and Fog" prisoner, he was entirely cut off from the outside world. No one knew his whereabouts, or even if he was alive. After three weeks at Neuengamme, he was transferred to the Natzweiler concentration camp near Strasbourg, and from there, to Dachau, in September 1944. Following the liberation of Dachau on April 29, 1945, Abraham returned to the Netherlands, where he remained until immigrating to the United States in the 1950s.
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1931 studio portrait of Abraham Moshe Muhlbaum
1935 portrait of three-year-old Anna Glinberg, a Jewish child. She was later killed during the mass execution at Babi Yar.
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1935 portrait of three-year-old Anna Glinberg
1936 portrait of two-year-old Mania Halef, a Jewish child, who was later killed during the mass execution at Babi Yar.
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1936 portrait of two-year-old Mania Halef
Prewar studio portrait in Sighet of Jewish siblings Suri and Ari Deutsch, both of whom died in the Holocaust. This photograph comes from the album of their cousin, Rosalia Dratler Roiter. Rosalia was deported to and died at Auschwitz. Sighet, Romania, 1937.
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1937 studio portrait of Suri and Ari Deutsch
At the Neu Freimann displaced persons camp, a boy displays the tattooed number on his arm to a photographer.  Other children  look on. Neu Freimann, Munich, Germany, between 1945 and 1949.
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A boy displays the tattooed number on his arm
A child in the Kovno ghetto hospital. Lithuania, between 1941 and 1944.
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Kovno ghetto hospital
A child survivor arrives at Haifa port on board the Aliyah Bet ("illegal" immigration) ship Mataroa. The British denied the passengers entry into Palestine and deported them to Cyprus detention camps. July 15, 1945.
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A child survivor arrives at Haifa
A young child sits among luggage while waiting to depart the Deggendorf displaced persons camp. Deggendorf, Germany, 1945-46.
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A child waiting to leave the Deggendorf displaced persons camp
A child wears the compulsory Jewish badge. The "Z" stands for the word "Jew" (Zidov) in Croatian. Yugoslavia, ca. 1941.
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A child wears the compulsory Jewish badge
A class of boys from the school in Oradour. All of the people pictured here were killed by the SS during the June 10, 1944, massacre. Oradour-sur-Glane, France, photograph taken between 1940 and June 1944.
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A class of boys from the school in Oradour
A dress worn by hidden child in Baarn, the Netherlands. The dress was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2002 by Vera Waisvisz-Reiss.
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Dress worn by a hidden child
A German teacher singles out a child with "Aryan" features for special praise in class. The use of such examples taught schoolchildren to judge each other from a racial perspective. Germany, wartime.
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A German teacher singles out a child with "Aryan" features
A group of children assembled for deportation to Chelmno. During the roundup known as the "Gehsperre" Aktion, the elderly, infirm, and children were rounded up for deportation. Lodz, Poland, September 5-12, 1942.
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A group of children assembled for deportation to Chelmno
A group of children in the Kovno ghetto in Lithuania. This photograph was taken by George Kadish between 1941 and 1943.
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A group of children in the Kovno ghetto

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