Where people born in concentration camps? My wife's friend told her this afternoon that her

[diabeticman]

Grandmother was born in one.

[loli phabay]

1. simple answer yes, though probuably was not common

[diabeticman]

5. I am shocked I thought it was my wife's friend pulling her chain.

[1000words]

2. Yes. Most who survived did so because the camp was liberated soon after birth.

[diabeticman]

3. ...

[sabrina 1]

14. Here's the story of one survivor who was born in Auchswitz

Born in Auschwitz

There are other stories, but it looks like any of the babies born there who survived, did so because they were born close to the Liberation.

[1000words]

16. Great story!

Thanks for posting, sabrina.

[sabrina 1]

17. You're welcome. It is a story of hope against all odds. .

I read of a few others but most babies born in those camps were murdered. The survival of even one of them was a defeat for the Nazis.

[madaboutharry]

4. It happened.

[alcibiades_mystery]

6. There were many different kinds of camps

Death sites like Treblinka were pure murder machines. Other camps were more like communities, even though thousands died (Theresienstadt).

[diabeticman]

7. Seems so chilling

[Gravitycollapse]

8. Highly improbable but still possible. Those starved to the brink of death likely lost fertility.

And even if a woman could conceive under such conditions it is improbable she could carry it to term. And even if she carried it to term, it is unlikely the child would survive starvation. And even if it survived starvation, it is unlikely it would survive the medical experiments or intentional slaughter of children.

Is it possible? Yes. It is almost certain that a few children were born and kept alive in some of the camps. But the odds of any one woman conceiving, carrying to term and then keeping the child alive were incredibly remote.

[Warpy]

9. It could happen in some camps

but pregnant women were first to be gassed in others.

What would be terribly unusual is to have an infant survive one without being snatched at birth and either killed or given to someone else to raise, their birth history obliterated.

[catnhatnh]

10. No one asked...

...but if the woman was of Japanese descent it could have happened in the US...

[DreamGypsy]

11. Here's a true story that addresses your question, told in a song ...

... Blue Tattoo, by Joe Crookston.

There is/was a kickstarter project to fund a the production of a film about the song and the real life mother who inspired the song - A popular folk artist and a Holocaust survivor find one another and forge a unique bond and a common sense purpose:

This is an amazing story that will soon be transformed into a documentary to will raise awareness of and sensitivity to the Holocaust. The film will relate how an Auschwitz survivor, Dina Jacobson, and a popular folk artist, Joe Crookston found one another several years ago, inspiring both themselves and others in a story and song demonstrating the power of the human spirit. That song, "Blue Tattoo," is told from the perspective of Dina explaining the Holocaust and the blue tattoo that is forever inscribed on her arm to her inquisitive four-year-old daughter, without shattering her child's sense of innocence.

The project was funded. The link below is to the video describing the project:

https://d2pq0u4uni88oo.cloudfront.net/projects/407937/video-189177-h264_high.mp4

[HeiressofBickworth]

12. A boy I dated in high school

was born in a Japanese concentration camp in Idaho while his father (Japanese) was in the US army fighting in Europe.

[RebelOne]

13. My former next door neighbor and her son

were from Ukraine. The mother was born in a concentration camp.

[redwitch]

15. My friends half sister was born in the Phillipines during wwII.

Mother and stepfather met in the camp and married and had her half sister.