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Children taken from eastern Europe during the SS "Heuaktion" (Hay Action), and temporarily imprisoned in Auschwitz awaiting their transfer to Germany, look out from behind the barbed wire fence.

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    Children taken from eastern Europe during the SS "Heuaktion" (Hay Action), and temporarily imprisoned in Auschwitz awaiting their transfer to Germany, look out from behind the barbed wire fence.
    Children taken from eastern Europe during the SS "Heuaktion" (Hay Action), and temporarily imprisoned in Auschwitz awaiting their transfer to Germany, look out from behind the barbed wire fence. [The blonde boy at the lower right may be Kalman Cylberszac (b. 1934), the son of Rachel and Nachum Cylberszac from Lask, Poland.]

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    Caption
    Children taken from eastern Europe during the SS "Heuaktion" (Hay Action), and temporarily imprisoned in Auschwitz awaiting their transfer to Germany, look out from behind the barbed wire fence.

    [The blonde boy at the lower right may be Kalman Cylberszac (b. 1934), the son of Rachel and Nachum Cylberszac from Lask, Poland.]
    Date
    July 1944
    Locale
    Auschwitz, [Upper Silesia] Poland
    Variant Locale
    Brzezinka
    Birkenau
    Auschwitz III
    Monowitz
    Auschwitz II
    Photo Credit
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Belarusian State Archive of Documentary Film and Photography
    Event History
    Approximately 40,000 eastern European children were transferred to Germany during the "Heuaktion," a cover name for the kidnapping of children aged 10 to 14 deemed suitable for "re-Germanization" into the Reich. The "Heuaktion" was one of many such operations carried out by the SS with the cooperation of institutions administered by its youth and "Lebensborn" programs.

    "Re-Germanization" was the legal and educational process by which "racially desirable" persons from the population of territories occupied by the Wehrmacht could become members of the German "Volk" and citizens of the Reich. In order to qualify for "re-Germanization," they had to provide proof of German racial origins or that they were sufficiently "deutsch gesinnt" (German-minded). "Re-Germanization," however, could be extended to "racialy valuable" children belonging to foreign peoples, in some cases, even children who were Jews. The children transferred to Germany under the "Heuaktion" fell into this category.

    https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10008219.

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    Photo Source
    Belarusian State Archive of Documentary Film and Photography
    Copyright: Public Domain
    Bundesarchiv
    Copyright: Exclusively with source
    Provenance: Institut fuer Marxismus-Leninismus
    Source Record ID: IV-11-E-2.930
    Second Record ID: 2780-N
    Instytut Pamieci Narodowej
    Copyright: Exclusively with provenance
    Provenance: Beit Lohamei Haghetaot (Ghetto Fighters’ House Museum)
    Source Record ID: 61958
    Published Source
    The World Must Know: The History of the Holocaust... - Berenbaum, Michael - Little, Brown and Company - p. 203

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