Documenting the horrors of Mauthausen concentration camp
Austria
In late April 1945, as World War II neared its end in Europe, three newborn babies and their mothers arrived at the notorious Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria. The women, Jewish prisoners who had endured months of forced labor, had hidden their pregnancies from their Nazi captors. Their survival to that point was extraordinary; what happened next was something closer to miraculous. Less than a week after their arrival, a small American unit of roughly two dozen soldiers liberated the
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