A three-year-old child was hidden in the Buchenwald camp

In February 1945, a Polish prisoner brought a three-year-old child into the Buchenwald concentration camp. Warehouse inmates decided to hide him first in an infirmary cupboard and then in the pigsty, despite the danger incurred by the entire resistance. Tortured afterwards for weeks, Höfel and Kropinski refused to reveal the presence of the little boy before the inmates liberated themselves.