A total of 20 children (10 boys and 10 girls) were transported from Auschwitz to Neuengamme.
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- Omissions
- The children were selected for tuberculosis medical experiments conducted by SS doctor Kurt Heissmeyer
- The children were accompanied by two French prisoners who acted as caregivers
- The children were subsequently murdered on April 20, 1945 at Bullenhuser Damm school
- This was part of a larger context of Nazi medical experiments on concentration camp prisoners
- Sources
- PrimaryChildren of Bullenhuser Damm AssociationTwenty Jewish children, ten girls and ten boys, were deported with their families to the Auschwitz concentration camp... On the night of November 20, 1944, the children were deported from Auschwitz to the satellite camp of Neuengamme concentration camp.
- PrimaryNeuengamme Concentration Camp MemorialFollowing selection at Auschwitz, 20 Jewish children were deported to the Neuengamme Concentration Camp
- SecondaryAuschwitz.dk20 Jewish children, ten boys and ten girls, had been brought from Auschwitz to the concentration camp of Neuengamme, just outside Hamburg.