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A group of children who were sheltered in Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, a town in southern France. [LCID: 08745]
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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. Explore more content related to children's experiences during the Holocaust.

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A young girl with light skin tone and short hair sitting in the center of two adults with light skin tone. The young girl is receiving a vaccination in her right arm.
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11-year-old girl who was a victim of medical experiments at Auschwitz
A severely emaciated child with light skin tone stands in the middle of a courtyard. The child looks hauntingly at the camera while wearing a pair of shorts that have been tied at the waist, a pair of oversized socks and boots. In the background, a group of people gather in front of barracks.
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13-year-old survivor of the Mauthausen concentration camp
Studio portrait of Abraham Moshe Muhlbaum playing the violin
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1931 studio portrait of Abraham Moshe Muhlbaum
A young girl with light skin tone and long dark hair. She is wearing a dark long sleeved dress and has a large bow in her hair.
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1935 portrait of three-year-old Anna Glinberg
A young girl with light skin tone stands against a white background holding a doll out to the left. She is wearing a large bow in her dark brown hair and a light colored jumper, white socks, and dark shoes.
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1936 portrait of two-year-old Mania Halef
A sepia toned portrait of two young children with light skin tone. The older, taller child on the left has dark brown hair and wears a dark dress with a bonnet tied around her neck. They have one hand placed on the other’s shoulder and is holding hands with the other. The younger, shorter child has short dark hair and wears a dark shirt with dark pants. They have one hand on their waist and is holding hands with the other.
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1937 studio portrait of Suri and Ari Deutsch
A young boy with medium-light skin tone and dark hair holds his arm out to show a tattoo on his forearm to a group of children behind him. He wears a light color collared shirt with a sweater vest.
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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. [LCID: 81153]
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Kovno ghetto hospital
A child survivor arrives at Haifa port on board the Aliyah Bet ("illegal" immigration) ship "Mataroa." [LCID: 69895]
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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. [LCID: 22582]
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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. [LCID: 88262]
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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. [LCID: 25712]
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A class of boys from the school in Oradour
A dress worn by hidden child in Baarn, the Netherlands. [LCID: 2515787]
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Dress worn by a hidden child
A group of boys with light skin tone line up in front of an adult with light skin tone in a suit. The adult is measuring the size of one of the boy’s heads with his hands while the other boys watch carefully.
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A German teacher singles out a child with "Aryan" features
A group of children assembled for deportation to Chelmno. [LCID: 50334]
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A group of children assembled for deportation to Chelmno
A group of children in the Kovno ghetto. Kovno, Lithuania, between 1941 and 1943. [LCID: 81165]
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A group of children in the Kovno ghetto

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