1943/03/11 – Geburt Peter Wachler und Anna Malik Auschwitz Birkenau

11 March 1943

Peter Wachler and Anna Malik are born in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and extermination camp (German-annexed Poland) in Camp Section BIIe. Their mothers had been deported from Germany and the German-occupied Czech lands. They are the first of at least 378 babies born to deported Sintize or Romnja under appalling conditions in the camp. All of them die within a few days or weeks.

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