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Daughter Travels With Her Father To The Nazi Concentration Camp Where He Was Born - Little Things
When many of us think about the Holocaust, we immediately think of the profound, painful loss of life. Millions of people died under some of the harshest conditions humanity has faced; a campaign of hatred against Jews, people of color, disabled people, Roma people, LGBTQ people, and more was waged for years by Adolf Hitler and his Nazi regime.
It can seem unfathomable, but somehow in all of that death, there was also life. While no one source has exact numbers, babies were born in concentration camps even as their parents were on the brink of death. Even more unbelievable is that some of those babies survived and went on to eventually have children of their own.
Many people who survived the Holocaust have no interest in revisiting Germany or any of the surrounding countries where the camps were built. But one woman recently wrote about what it was like to travel back to the site of her father's birth, the Leipzig-Schönefeld labor camp, alongside him — even though he never thought he would want to see it.
When many of us think about the Holocaust, we immediately think of the profound, painful loss of life. Millions of people died under some of the harshest conditions humanity has faced; a campaign of hatred against Jews, people of color, disabled people, Roma people, LGBTQ people, and more was waged for years by Adolf Hitler and his Nazi regime.
It can seem unfathomable, but somehow in all of that death, there was also life. While no one source has exact numbers, babies were born in concentration camps even as their parents were on the brink of death. Even more unbelievable is that some of those babies survived and went on to eventually have children of their own.
Many people who survived the Holocaust have no interest in revisiting Germany or any of the surrounding countries where the camps were built. But one woman recently wrote about what it was like to travel back to the site of her father's birth, the Leipzig-Schönefeld labor camp, alongside him — even though he never thought he would want to see it.