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Buchenwald’s Children — Germany, 1945 When Buchenwald was liberated, hundreds of children were found among the starving prisoners. Their ribs pushed against their thin skin, and their eyes were sunken into hollow faces. Some clung together for warmth, too weak to stand. One boy whispered to a soldier: “I am thirteen.” The soldier wept, because the boy’s emaciated frame looked no older than six. Many children survived only because older prisoners gave them scraps of bread. Their survival was a miracle amid hunger designed to erase them.