 The youngest, presented as a Pole, was only three years old, another three-year-old Jewish child was "born" in Buchenwald and raised secretly by the prisoners.When the privileged "red" prisoners heard rumours of the upcoming evacuation of Jews, they sabotaged preparations for the death march.According to Yad Vashem, "Wilhelm Hammann who was the head of Barrack 8 where the children were held, among them Rabbi Lau, and who had the children replace the patches identifying them as Jews".