Child on the running board of a truck
Photo: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum #90250, courtesy of NARA.

Two young child survivors on board the SS Mataroa display their tattooed arms
Photo: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum #69136, courtesy of Israel Press Office.

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	A detail from a German map in the collection of the International Tracing Service in Bad Arolsen, Germany, showing the geographical location of Buchenwald concentration camp.
	Professor Ken Waltzer of Michigan State University consults Buchenwald concentration camp records at the International Tracing Service in Bad Arolsen, Germany, in an effort to trace the movements of children through the system.
	Professor Ken Waltzer of Michigan State University consults Buchenwald concentration camp records at the International Tracing Service in Bad Arolsen, Germany, in an effort to identify child prisoners and their eventual fates.
	Professor Ken Waltzer of Michigan State University consults Buchenwald concentration camp records at the International Tracing Service in Bad Arolsen, Germany, in an effort to identify child prisoners and their eventual fates. Shown here are boxes containing transportation records.
	Professor Ken Waltzer of Michigan State University describes his research findings to Paul Shapiro, director of the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, and Dr. Irmtrud Wojak, head of the Department for Historical Research at the International Tracing Service in Bad Arolsen, Germany. Waltzer is researching the lives of children held in Buchenwald concentration camp during World War II in an effort to discover who they were, what they experienced in the camp, and how they survived to be liberated.
	Professor Kenneth Waltzer of Michigan State University works with records relating to the transport of children between Nazi concentration camps at the International Tracing Service in Bad Arolsen, Germany (June 2008).
	Joe White, a member of the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, assists Professor Ken Waltzer of Michgian State University with translating documents relating to the transport of children between Nazi concentration camps during World War II (June 2008).
	At the International Tracing Service in Bad Arolsen, Germany, Professor Ken Waltzer of Michigan State University is tracing the fates of children imprisoned in the Buchenwald concentration camp and researching how more than 900 of them survived to be liberated by the U.S. Army in April 1945. Here he uses a "Häftlings-Personal-Karte," or prisoner's registration card, that was created by camp authorities to record basic information about each person who was imprisoned (June 2008).
	Nobel Prize-winner Elie Wiesel addresses Michigan State University students during Spring Convocation 1999.
	MSU Children's Choir
	Kenneth Waltzer and Jasmine Angelini-Knoll
	Jasmine Angelini-Knoll
	Kenneth Waltzer
	Keely Stauter-Halsted