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January 12, 2025 36 mins

In today's episode of History and Hearsay, we are discussing  the children of WWII

Timestamps: 
0:00 - Intro 
1:26 - Children during the Holocaust
3:52 - Non-Jewish Children
4:34 - Medical Experiments 
7:52 - Disabled Children
10:36 - Kindertransport
13:23 - British Evacuees
19:44 - Going into Hiding
24:34 - Death Toll & After Effects of the War
28:54 - Surviving Children
30:23 - Wolfskinder - Wolf Children
35:18 - Final Thoughts 
 ►Sources:
https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/girl-concentration-camp-disturbed-children-1948/
https://www.magnumphotos.com/newsroom/society/david-seymour-children-of-europe/
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/life-in-shadows-hidden-children-and-the-holocaust 
https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn60517
https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn60519 
https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn59520 
https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/resources/kindertransport/#:~:text=The Kindertransport was a British,children from Nazi occupied territories 
https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/the-evacuated-children-of-the-second-world-war 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf_children 
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12094836/ 
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1046/j.1466-7657.2002.00110.x 
https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/the-evacuated-children-of-the-second-world-war 
https://www.dw.com/en/german-wolf-children-the-forgotten-orphans-of-wwii/a-41214994 
https://www.auschwitz.org/en/history/fate-of-children/the-fate-of-the-children/ 
https://www.histsem.uni-kiel.de/en/das-institut-1/abteilungen/russian-and-eastern-european-history/research-projects/history-of-childhood/german-orphans-in-eastern-europe-after-the-second-world-war-1#:~:text=As%20a%20result%20of%20war,in%20foster%20and%20adoptive%20families 
https://www.nursing.upenn.edu/live/files/714-residential-treatment-and-the-invention-of-the
https://commons.erau.edu/genocide-conference/2020/video/10/ 

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