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The Rescue of Children and Youths at Buchenwald The Mona and Otto Weinmann Lecture U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Cen

. When General Patton's U.S. Third Army liberated Buchenwald on April 11, 1945, American soldiers found more than 900 children and youths among the 21,000 surviving prisoners. Eighty-five percent were 14-17 years old, but fifteen percent were under 14. There were 6-, 8-, 9-, 10-, and 12- year-olds.

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The Rescue of Children and Youths at Buchenwald The Mona and Otto Weinmann Lecture U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Cen

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    1. The Rescue of Children and Youths at Buchenwald The Mona and Otto Weinmann Lecture U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies May 15, 2008 Kenneth Waltzer Professor and Director, Jewish Studies College of Arts and Letters Michigan State University

    3. Edward R. Murrow, who visited Buchenwald on April 12 and broadcast from there on April 15, mentioned the hundreds of children. Margaret Bourke-White, traveling with Patton�s army, photographed in the camp on April 15, shooting pictures of children as well as adult prisoners, skeletons, and piles of bodies. Photo: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum #13060, courtesy of NARA.

    4. Photo: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum #15596, courtesy of John Mosenthal.

    5. Youths at Buchenwald, April-May 1945. Photo: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum #45078, courtesy of NARA.

    6. The two youngest children entered the camp at three years old and were four years old at liberation. They included Josef Schleifstein, born in early 1941, from Sandomierz, Poland, sitting here on the running board of a UNRRA truck. Photo: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum #90250, courtesy of NARA.

    7. Group portrait of some of the youngest children, including David Perlmutter age 8, front left; Josef Schleifstein (4, front center); Israel Meir Lau (Lulek) (8, front right. Also here are Eli Grinbaum, Underground activist, and Romek Waisman and Abram Czapnik. Photo: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum #19753, courtesy of Jacques and Charles Finkel.

    8. After liberation, the children were moved out of Buchenwald on April 17 into the former SS barracks outside. Elie Wiesel is seen toward the left. Photo: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum #69158, courtesy of NARA.

    9. One of the young boys, Joe Dziubak from Lodz, wrote on the side of the train that took boys to France, �Where are our parents?� Photo: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum #44251, courtesy of Willy Fogel.

    10. �Hitler Kapout� Photo: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum #26149, courtesy of Robert Waisman.

    11. Buchenwald youth wave to camera at Ecouis, France. Photo: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum #28141, courtesy of Robert Waisman.

    12. Of 427 Buchenwald boys sent to France, 173 left in July 1945, from Marseille for Palestine, including Israel Meir Lau (Lulek). Photo: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum #27335, courtesy of Robert Waisman.

    13. Two Jewish youth on the Mataroa, July 1945, show their Auschwitz tattoos. Yehuda Klejnhandler is on the right. Photo: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum #69136 courtesy of Israel Press Office.

    14. In France � religious boys, including Elie Wiesel. Photo: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum #29384, courtesy of Jacque Ribons.

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