Were any babies BORN in Nazi concentration camps?

Not only were some babies allowed to be born, but a few of them even survived. When Kaufering I was liberated, there were seven surviving infants. The women worked together to keep these infants alive. When the mothers had to work, other women would care for their babies.
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You might be interested in this documentary. Anka managed to become pregnant twice in Terezin and gave birth to both babies. The first child died, but not at the hands of the Nazis. He suffered pneumonia when he was two months old. The second child survived and appears in the documentary.

In Ravensbrück, women were sometimes forced to have abortions, but it sounds like most women gave birth and then their babies were immediately taken and killed. Towards the end of the war, newborns were allowed to live, but they rarely survived the conditions of the camp. (This information is in the second to last paragraph on the page I linked.)

@noelleptc Your link doesn’t work. Is this the page you were going for?

@bobbinhood That is exactly the kind of information I was looking for. I know that we are few years from losing the last survivors and figured babies born in the camps, logically, would be the youngest now alive (if any made it). I was trying to get a sense of how long we have before the last survivor might no longer be available to stand in the face of those who deny the Holocaust.

Thank you all so much! It looks like I have a good bit more reading to do and videos to watch. If you are aware of any other sources, please feel free to share . . .

I just heard about this today on the radio.

Do you know the story of Irena Sendler? She was a Roman Catholic who started a network of helpers who saved people (including countless children) from the Warsaw Ghetto. She is a hero.

I had heard (although i have no link) that experiments were done on pregnant women, including holding their legs together when they were ready to deliver, until the baby died in utero. anybody who has ever delivered a baby would agree that the thought of the pain of having your legs held together so the baby can’t come out is unimaginable.

I was just about to google the Anka story… I watched the documentry on it yesterday…how bizzare that you should ask that question! If you do get chance to watch you will be inspired it makes very interesting viewing…I true miracle story!

The Nazis looked to Norway for ‘breeding stock’ and forced several men to Germany. They were told… breed or die. They all chose to die. (A family friend was among them…. someone should make a movie about that, but it would be so terribly sad.)

Practically every student in Germany before finishing high school takes part in a school trip and visits a Nazi concentration camp. For most in Southern Germany it’s Dachau (near Munich). This is were I went, but later I visited others as well. Here’s a very recent article about pregnancy and birth in Dachau and an exhibition:

http://blog.goethe.de/meet-the-germans/archives/95-They-gave-us-hope-again-Pregnancy-and-Birth-at-Dachau.html

“This week is the 65th anniversary of the liberation of Dachau. To mark the occasion the KZ Gedenkstätte Dachau is opening of an extraordinary exhibition about an extraordinary event. Between December 1944 and February 1945, seven Jewish women brought children into the world amidst the terror of Kaufering I, one of Dachau’s eleven satellite camps.”

(@bobbinhood mentioned the reunion of six of the seven)

Many years ago I watched a wonderful interview with an elderly, Jewish woman doctor, she said delivering Jewish babies was her way of answering the Holocaust atrocities.

My mother was born in a munich ammunition camp 2 nd December 1943 she was hidden in the camp hospital cupboard until the war was over and now lives in Australia.she was delivered by a Russian midwife named Valentyna who was in my nanna’s room in the middle of the night 3 mths premature.in the morning they wrapped nanna in a blanket with mum on her belly and took her to the camp hospital where they both stayed until the war was over. The woman who ran the hospital was able to keep nanna as help and get my pop from the mens camp to come to fix things so he could see his wife and baby.

@Donna15 That is amazing. What an amazing story. :O

At concentration camp Freiberg there were more than 10 pregnancies within the 1000 female prisoners. Several babies were born in Freiberg, on evacuation and at Mauthausen camp and survived.
In most women camps of concentration camp Flossenbuerg there are cases of pregnant women documented. Some died, some lost their childs or had misscarriages, some were deported back to (Auschwitz), Ravensbrück or Bergen-Belsen, and gave birth there.