The deportation and murder of Jewish children in Auschwitz during World War II represent a grave historical atrocity.

23 May 1941 | A Dutch Jewish boy, Robert Spiero, was born in The Hague. He was deported to #Auschwitz in February 1944 and murdered in a gas chamber.

24 May 1940 | A Dutch Jewish boy, Philip Cohen, was born in Amsterdam. He arrived at #Auschwitz on 18 February 1943 in a transport of 1,108 Jews deported from Westerbork. He was among 847 of them murdered in gas chambers after the selection.