75
Note: Boldface page number indicate
illustrations.
Arbeit Macht Frei
(“Work makes one
free”), 52
Auschwitz
attempt to destroy evidence at, 40–43,
41
conditions in, 29
entrance sign, 52
evidence of killings at, 55
liberation of, 8, 54
medical experiments at, 29–32
number of surviving children and
teenagers at, 63
Auschwitz-Birkenau, 55, 63
Beck, Kuba, 56
Berger, Joseph, 58–59, 62
Bielski, Sonia, 20
Bonnewit, Basia, 59
Britain, prewar immigration to, 44–46,
46
Brundibar
(Sendak), 30
Burkill, Margareta, 45
camps
displaced person (DP), 56–58, 57
Nazi concentration and extermination
arrival at, 28, 28, 29
attempts to destroy evidence of killings
at, 40–43, 41
conditions in, 55
infants in, 36, 37
killing facilities and procedures at,
37–40, 38
liberation of, 8, 53, 54
locations of, 22
transportation to, 26–28
See also
Auschwitz
carbon monoxide, 37
Catholics, 12
Central British Fund for German Jewry,
44–45
Chiger family, 14
Christians, pretending to be, 12–15
clothing, 23, 24
Coffman, Cameron, 55
concentration camps.
See
camps
Dachau, 53
darkness, living in, 18
David, Nicole, 62
death marches, 40–43
deaths
during death marches, 40–43
in killing facilities in camps, 37–40,
38
from killing squads, 35
from killing vans and trucks, 36–37
and number and percent of Jewish
children killed, 9, 26
to save others, 36
as slave laborers, 52
from starvation, 18
diary, written by Anne Frank, 19
disabled individuals, murder of, 42
displaced person (DP) camps, 56–58, 57
Drucker, Olga Levy, 47
education, 25
Einsatzgruppen (“Task Forces”), 33, 34,
34–35
Elefant, Ingrid Epstein, 19
Elias, Buddy, 19
emigration of Jews
postwar, 60–62, 61
prewar, 10, 44–46, 46
evidence
and descriptions of liberators, 55
Nazi attempts to destroy, 40–43, 41
piles of clothing as, 55
extermination camps.
See
camps
family reunification
and bonds with caretakers, 59–60
and difficulties finding each other,
57–58, 59
as goal, 56
methods used to attempt, 56–57
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