The scale and enormity of suffering endured by children during World War II cannot be described in words, but as long we continue to speak of it – including those of us who were born many years after the war and know this subject only from written records, books, and camp memories we preserve the memory of those who deserve to be commemorated forever. The suffering of children in KL Auschwitz consisted of enormous physical and emotional extermination.

The largest concentration camp established within Polish territory, KL Auschwitz, was designed for inmates from southern Poland and Silesia. The parent camp, along with two camp complexes, Birkenau and Monowitz, which were established after the population of villages adjacent to the town of Auschwitz was displaced, constituted the largest German/Nazi death camp, witnessing the extermination of 4 million people from all over Europe under German occupation, including children (Boczek, Boczek, Wilczur, 1979, p. 57). Construction of the Auschwitz camp was commenced at the turn of April and May of 1940 and as early as on June 14th 1940, the first transport of 700 inmates, including a number of young Poles, but no children under the age of 14, reached Auschwitz. On March 1st 1941, Heinrich Himmler visited Auschwitz for the first time and ordered the expansion of the parent camp.