Child Survivors Of Auschwitz

A group of child survivors behind a barbed wire fence at the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau in southern Poland, on the day of the camp’s liberation by the Red Army, 27th January 1945. Photo taken by Red Army photographer Captain Alexander Vorontsov during the making of a film about the liberation of the camp. The children were dressed in adult uniforms by the Russians. The children are (left to right): Tomy Schwarz (later Shacham), Miriam Ziegler, Berta Weinhaber (later Bracha Katz), Ruth Webber, Paula Lebovics, Marta Weiss (later Wise), Erika Winter (later Dohan), Eva Weiss (later Slonim), Robert Schlesinger (front, later Shmuel Schelach), Gabor Hirsch, Gabriel Neumann, and Eva Mozes Kor. (Photo by Alexander Vorontsov/Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)