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Group portrait of Hungarian Jewish mothers and their infants in a Dachau sub-camp in Germany.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 75033
Group portrait of Hungarian Jewish mothers and their infants in a Dachau sub-camp in Germany. Pictured left to right are Eva Schwartz with her daughter Maria; Dora Loewy and her daughter Szuszi; Boeszi Legmann with her son Gyuri; Suri Hirsch with her son Yossi; Miriam Schwarcz Rosenthal with her son Laci (Leslie); Magda Fenyvesi with her son Judit, and Ibolya Kovacs with her daughter Agnes.

Group portrait of Hungarian Jewish mothers and their infants in a Dachau sub-camp in Germany.

Pictured left to right are Eva Schwartz with her daughter Maria; Dora Loewy and her daughter Szuszi; Boeszi Legmann with her son Gyuri; Suri Hirsch with her son Yossi; Miriam Schwarcz Rosenthal with her son Laci (Leslie); Magda Fenyvesi with her son Judit, and Ibolya Kovacs with her daughter Agnes.

Date
May 1945
Locale
Dachau, [Bavaria] Germany
Photo Designation
MAJOR CONCENTRATION CAMPS 1940-45 -- Dachau -- LIBERATION -- Survivors -- Inside Barracks
Photo Credit
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of William and Dorothy McLaughlin
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Event History
The Schwanger Kommando was a group of seven pregnant, Hungarian Jewish women imprisoned in one of the Kaufering sub-camps of Dachau in December 1944. Though pregnant women and their babies were almost never permitted to survive, this group was allowed to bear their children, possibly as a bargaining chip for their SS overseers to use when the Allies conquered Germany Despite appalling sanitary conditions and the lack of food and heat, all seven mothers gave birth to healthy babies between February and March 1945. All were liberated in Dachau in May 1945.

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Photo Source
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Provenance: William and Dorothy McLaughlin
Source Record ID: Collections: 2005.442
 
Record last modified: 2016-06-27 00:00:00
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