Could they have babies in Auschwitz?

Answer 1

Men and women were kept separate, so few babies were born, unless the woman came to to camp pregnant, or was raped by a guard. Women found to be pregnant were usually killed.

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Long ago I met a woman who had been born in the Women's Camp at Auschwitz ... She told me that she was born about 30 hours before the camp was liberated. Her mother had been sent to Auschwitz on the last or last but one transport from the Lodz Ghetto in August 1944.

She also told me that towards the end at Auschwitz conditions had become chaotic and that her mother had managed to hide and was not taken on a death march.

The fate of mother and child was most unusual. Both survived.