Nameless children in Holocaust photos identified decades later
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The Holocaust survivor Marc Degen, at home in a suburb of Amsterdam. Degen was identified in enhanced, rare footage of a transport to a Nazi death camp.2/8
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A Nazi transport prepares to leave a Dutch transit camp in 1944. In the window on the right, Marc Degen with his mother. On the left, another child, possibly his cousin, Marcus Simon Degen, and behind him, faintly, an image of Marc Degen’s sister, a 1-year-old Stella, in the arms of an adult.3/8
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The Holocaust survivor Stella Fertig at home in Queens, New York. “People say, ‘It’s better that you don’t know,’” said Fertig, who remembers nothing from the war years. “But I would like to know a little bit more.”4/8
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Bernard Hartlooper, center, a buyer and warehouse clerk, waits to board a Nazi transport with his satchel over his shoulder. The enhanced footage helped the researchers identify people who had inscribed their name on their possessions.5/8
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Westerbork, a transit camp from which prisoners were transported to other sites, was run by an SS commander, Albert Konrad Gemmeker, third from the left. Researchers using enhanced, rare footage of a transport to a Nazi death camp have been able to identify some passengers, including children who survived.6/8
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The Holocaust survivor Stella Fertig at home in Queens, New York. Fertig was a baby when she was carried onto a transport bound for a Nazi death camp.7/8
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Frouwke Kroon, 61, is wheeled toward a Nazi transport. She was murdered at Auschwitz three days later.8/8
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The Holocaust survivor Marc Degen, at home in a suburb of Amsterdam. Degen was identified in enhanced, rare footage of a transport to a Nazi death camp.
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