Event · Deportation
Jewish children deported to Auschwitz
Approximately 1,200 Jewish children were taken away and later learned to have been deported to Auschwitz and gassed; Mirele’s individual fate is not confirmed.
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... On the second day the murderers began arresting
children between the ages of six and ten, promising that
they would be fed. Later on we learned that they were
deported to Auschwitz and gassed. Some 1,200 Jewish
youngsters were taken away. My own daughter, a
seven-year-old girl named Mirele, begged me to save
her. I grabbed her with my hand, attempting to hide her
in the sea of humanity, out of sight of the predators.
Subsequently we were force-marched to wagons that
had been prepared for us in advance. Hungry and
thirsty after four days without water, we had no choice
but to moisten the parched lips of our young children
with urine. ...Connected nodes