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

Photograph | Digitized | Photograph Number: 17017

Overview

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

Pictured from left to right are: Ibolya Kovacs with her daughter Agnes; Suri Hirsch with her son Yossi; Eva Schwartz with her daughter Maria; Magda Fenyvesi with her daughter Judit; and Boeszi Legmann with her son Gyuri. Not pictured are: Dora Loewy and her daughter Szuszi; and Miriam Schwarcz Rosenthal and her son Laci (Leslie).
Date: May 1945
Locale: Dachau, [Bavaria] Germany
Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives and Records Administration, College Park
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.

Photo Source: National Archives and Records Administration, College Park

Copyright: Public Domain

Source Record ID: 111-SC-205488 (Album 1469)
KZ-Gedenkstaette Dachau

Copyright: Exclusively with source

Source Record ID: Dok. 3373/1

Keyword: BARRACKS CHILDREN (0-3 YEARS) CHILDREN/YOUTH DPS (JEWISH) GROUP PORTRAITS INTERIORS JEWS (HUNGARIAN) KAUFERING CHILDREN LANDSBERG PHOTOGRAPHS (SIGNAL CORPS) SCHWANGER KOMMANDO (HUNGARIAN WOMEN) WOMEN
Photo Designation: MAJOR CONCENTRATION CAMPS 1940-45 -- Dachau -- LIBERATION -- Survivors -- Inside Barracks