Child identity card issued to Erich Grunebaum (later Eric Greene) by the German government for the purpose of emigrating to France on a children's transport.
In the years leading up to and through World War II efforts were made to rescue Jewish children from Germany and Nazi-occupied countries.
This prisoner's uniform from Auschwitz is a tragic reminder of the cruelty and inhumanity of the Nazi concentration camps, where prisoners who were not immediately murdered endured the most extreme suffering and humiliation.
Auschwitz-Birkenau was the death site of approximately 1.1 million people.
