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Webinar: "Fate of children in KL Auschwitz" - 29 October 2025
The International Center for Education about Auschwitz and the Holocaust invites you to take part in the webinar “The Fate of Children in KL Auschwitz”, which will begin on 29 October 2025, at 4:00 PM (CET) on the Zoom platform. The event will be simultaneously translated into English.
The program will feature two lectures: Dr. Teresa Wontor-Cichy will speak about the fate of children born in Auschwitz, while Dr. Wanda Malicka-Witek will discuss the camp as seen through the eyes of children and their difficult return to life after the war.
WEBINAR PROGRAM (time zone CET)
16:00 | Opening
16:05–16:50 | The Fate of Children Born in KL Auschwitz – Dr. Teresa Wontor-Cichy, Research Center of the Museum
16:50–17:00 | Break
17:00–18:30 | The Camp through the Eyes of a Child and the Return to Life after the War – Dr. Wanda Malicka-Witek, Research Center of the Museum
Participation in the webinar is free of charge. Applications using the online form should be submitted by 27 October 2025. After this date, participants will receive an e-mail with the link to join the meeting. The webinar is intended for adults.
For additional information, please contact Dr. Maria Martyniak at the ICEAH:
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Among some 1.3 million people deported to the German Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz, there were about 232,000 children and adolescents. This number includes approximately 216,000 Jewish children, 11,000 Roma children, at least 3,000 Polish children, and more than 1,000 Belarusian, Ukrainian, and other children. Of these, just over 23,500 children and adolescents were registered in the camp. The vast majority of Jewish children were murdered immediately upon arrival in the gas chambers.
The fate of child and adolescent prisoners was essentially no different from that of adult prisoners. They suffered from hunger and cold, were exploited as forced labor, subjected to punishments, killed, and were also the victims of criminal experiments carried out by SS doctors.
From the available documents, it can be established that at least 700 children were born in Auschwitz. On 10 January 1945, the camp held at least 247 pregnant women and mothers as well as 156 children under the age of three. Some of them were forced out of the camp during the so-called Death March on 18 January 1945 together with their mothers. At least 60 children born in KL Auschwitz lived to see liberation.
More resources
Online lesson: Children in KL Auschwitz
Podcast: The Camp through the Eyes of a Child
