Holocaust's youngest survivors born to Jewish women who hid pregnancies

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Holocaust's youngest survivors born to Jewish women who hid pregnancies

This is an updated version of a story first published on Feb. 15, 2026. The original video can be viewed here . May 2025 marked the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe and the …

This is an updated version of a story first published on Feb. 15, 2026. The original video can be viewed here . May 2025 marked the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe and the liberation of the last remaining Nazi concentration camps. It might feel, nearly a century later, as though there are few Holocaust survival stories left to tell. But then we found this one. It begins with three young women who were married and newly pregnant in 1944 when they were sent to the notorious death camp Auschwitz, then assigned to work as slave laborers in Germany. With pregnancy an offense punishable by death in the camps, the story of how these three women managed to deceive their Nazi captors and give birth to three tiny babies - who were 80 years old when we first met them last year -- involves narrow misses, seemingly impossible twists of fate and luck, unimaginable suffering, and miracles. Lesley Stahl: Everyone keeps calling you the babies. Mark Olsky: Yes. Lesley Stahl: And you're 80. Mark Olsky: Yes. Lesley Stahl: Are you okay with that– Mark Olsky: Oh yes. Hana Berger-Moran: Oh yeah. Eva Clarke: Absolutely. We're proud of it. Hana Berger-Moran: Totally. Eva Clarke, Hana Berger-Moran, and Mark Olsky are among – if not the – youngest survivors of the Holocaust. Hana Berger-Moran: April 12th. Mark Olsky: April 20. Eva Clarke: April 29th. Eva Clarke, Hana Berger-Moran and Mark Olsky 60 Minutes Born in April 1945, just before Germany's surrender in May. …

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