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In the early spring of 1939, parents in a remote Peruvian village noticed that their 5-year-old daughter had an enlarged belly. Fearful that the swelling was a tumor, Tiburelo Medina and Victoria Losea took their little girl, Lina Medina, from the familys home in Ticrapo to see a doctor in Lima.Wikimedia CommonsLina Medina, the youngest mother in history, pictured with her son.To the parents shock, the doctor discovered that Lina Medina was seven months pregnant. And on May 14, 1939, Medina gave birth via C-section to a healthy baby boy. At five years, seven months, and 21 days of age, she became the youngest mother in the world.Medinas case took pediatricians by surprise and attracted international attention that she and her family never wanted. To this day, Medina has never told authorities who the father was, and she and her family still shun publicity and avoid any opportunity for a tell-all interview.Despite the mystery that continues to surround the case of the worlds youngest mother, more insight has come to light on how Lina Medina got pregnant and who the father may have been.Lina Medinas Case Of Precocious PubertyYouTube/Anondo BDThe youngest mother in the world likely had a rare condition called precocious puberty.Born on September 23, 1933, in one of the poorest villages in Peru, Lina Medina was one of nine children of Tiburelo Medina and Victoria Losea. Her pregnancy at such an early age obviously came as a disturbing shock to her loved ones and the public. But to pediatric endocrinologists, the idea that a five-year-old child could get pregnant wasnt entirely unthinkable.Its believed that Medina had a rare genetic condition called precocious puberty, which causes a childs body to change into that of an adult too soon (before age eight for girls and before age nine for boys). Boys with this condition will often experience a deepening voice, enlarged genitals, and facial hair. Girls with this condition will typically have their first period and develop breasts early on. It affects about one in every 10,000 children. Roughly 10 times more girls than boys develop this way. Oftentimes, the cause of precocious puberty cant be identified. However, recent studies have found that young girls who were sexually abused may go through puberty faster than their peers. So there are suspicions that precocious puberty might be accelerated by sexual contact at an early age.In the case of Lina Medina, Dr. Edmundo Escomel reported to a medical journal that she had her first period when she was only eight months old. However, other publications claimed that she was three years old when she began menstruating. Either way, it was a shockingly early start.Further examination of 5-year-old Medina showed that she had already developed breasts, wider-than-normal hips, and advanced (that is, post-pubescent) bone growth.But of course, even though her body was developing early, she was still very clearly a young child.Who Was The Father Of Lina Medinas Baby?Wikimedia CommonsLina Medina never told authorities who the father of the child was. Sadly, its possible that even she didnt know.Precocious puberty partially explains how Lina Medina got pregnant. But of course, it doesnt explain everything.After all, somebody else had to get her pregnant. And sadly, given the 100,000-to-1 odds against it, that person probably wasnt a little boy with the same condition that she had. Medina never told her doctors or the authorities who the father was or the circumstances of the assault that led to her pregnancy. But due to her young age, she might not have even known herself.Dr. Escomel said that she couldnt give precise responses when questioned about the father.Tiburelo, Medinas father who worked as a local silversmith, was briefly arrested for the suspected rape of his child. However, he was released and the charges against him were dropped when no evidence or witness statements could be found to hold him responsible. For his part, Tiburelo Medina strenuously denied ever raping his daughter. In the years following the birth, some news agencies speculated that Medina may have been attacked during unspecified festivities that took place near her village. However, this was never proven.The Media Swarms The Worlds Youngest MotherYouTube/Ileana FernandezAfter Gerardo Medina was born, Lina Medina and her family quickly retreated from the public eye.Once Lina Medinas pregnancy became generally known, it garnered attention from all over the world.Newspapers in Peru unsuccessfully offered the Medina family thousands of dollars for the rights to interview and to film Lina. Meanwhile, newspapers in the United States had a field day reporting on the story and they also attempted to interview the young mother.Offers were even made to pay the family to come to the United States. But Medina and her family declined to speak publicly. It was perhaps inevitable, given the astounding nature of Medinas condition and her aversion to scrutiny, that some observers would accuse her family of hoaxing the whole story. In the over 80 years that have passed, this seems unlikely to be the case. Neither Medina nor her family have tried to capitalize on the story, and medical records from the time provide ample documentation of her condition during her pregnancy. Only two photographs were known to be taken of Medina while she was pregnant. And only one of those a low-resolution profile picture was ever published outside of the medical literature.Her case file also contains numerous accounts by doctors who treated her, as well as clearly defined X-rays of her abdomen that show the bones of a developing fetus inside her body. Blood work also confirmed her pregnancy. And all papers published in the literature passed peer review without a hitch.That said, every request for an interview has been refused by Medina. And she would go on to avoid publicity for the rest of her life, refusing to sit for interviews with international wire services and local newspapers alike.Medinas aversion to the spotlight apparently continues to this day. What Happened To Lina Medina, The Youngest Person To Ever Give Birth?YouTube/The DreamerMuch of Lina Medinas later life remains a mystery. If shes still alive today, she would be in her late 80s.Lina Medina seems to have gotten good medical care, especially for the time and place in which she lived, and she gave birth to a healthy baby boy.Delivery was by Cesarean section because, despite Medinas prematurely widened hips, she probably wouldve had a difficult time passing a full-sized child through the birth canal.Lina Medinas child was named Gerardo, after the doctor who first examined Medina, and the infant went home to the familys village of Ticrapo after he was released from the hospital. Two years after the birth, a specialist in child education at Columbia University named Paul Kosak got permission to visit the Medina family. Kosak found that the youngest person to give birth was above normal intelligence and that her baby was perfectly normal. She thinks of the child as a baby brother and so does the rest of the family, Kosak reported. An obstetrician named Jose Sandoval who wrote a book about the Medina case said that Medina often preferred to play with her dolls rather than her child. As for Gerardo Medina himself, he grew up thinking that Medina was his older sister. He found out the truth when he was about 10.While Gerardo Medina was healthy for most of his life, he sadly ended up dying relatively young at age 40 in 1979. The cause of death was bone disease.As for Lina Medina, it is unclear if shes still alive today or not. After her shocking pregnancy, she went on to live a quiet life in Peru.In her young adulthood, she found work as a secretary for the doctor who attended the birth, which paid her way through school. At roughly the same time, Lina managed to put Gerardo through school as well.She later married a man named Ral Jurado in the early 1970s and gave birth to her second son when she was in her 30s. As of 2002, Medina and Jurado were still married and living in a poor neighborhood in Lima.Given her lifelong attitude toward publicity and the prying eyes of curious outsiders towards historys youngest person to give birth, it may be for the best that Lina Medinas life remains private. If shes still alive, she would be in her late 80s today.After learning about Lina Medina, the youngest mother in history, read about the 11-year-old who was forced to marry her rapist. Then, discover the story of Gisella Perl, the Angel of Auschwitz who saved the lives of hundreds of women imprisoned during the Holocaust by aborting their pregnancies.The post The Story Of Lina Medina, The Youngest Mother In The World appeared first on All That's Interesting.

German Federal ArchivesIn their quest for total elimination of Jews, the Nazis carried out a mass pillaging operation to seize every item that once belonged to a Jewish person.After the Nazi invasion across Europe forced Jewish people out of their homes, a systematic operation called Mbel Aktion or Furniture Operation set about looting thousands of personal possessions from their abandoned houses and apartments.The seizure of these everyday items such as linens, photo frames, and even saucepans may appear banal on the surface. But it was all part of a deliberate Nazi plan to completely eliminate the Jewish population.They gutted Jewish homes and stole every last household item in an attempt to make it appear as if the Jewish owners of these objects never existed in the first place. And they didnt just steal these objects they also forced Jewish prisoners to sell them.Nazi officers could browse these stolen goods for themselves at the four-story Parisian department store Lvitan. The famous storefront not only served as an exhibit for these plunders, but it was also a Nazi labor camp housing hundreds of Jewish prisoners.Furniture Operation Of The NazisGerman Federal ArchivesA staged furniture setup made of household furnishings looted from Jewish families.A key component to the capture, torture, and mass killing of the Jewish population by the Nazis during World War II was the seizure of artwork and valuables. The looting was carried out under the name Mbel Aktion or Furniture Operation and it was exactly what it sounds like: a methodical and widespread operation to take all items found in the emptied dwellings of Jewish residents, who were either kidnapped to labor camps or had fled for their lives. German Federal ArchivesGoods that were considered of higher value like fine linens and porcelain were kept for the Nazi officers in charge of the looting operations. More than 70,000 dwellings across Europe were abandoned with belongings still inside ripe for looting. In France alone, 76,000 Jewish people were deported and less than a third of them ever made it back after the war. Roughly 38,000 Parisian apartments were emptied out by the Nazis. They stripped every residence formerly occupied by Jews and transported the stolen goods, ranging from dishware and tools to cabinets and clocks. A number of warehouses were converted into work camps where hundreds of prisoners were forced to go through the mass of plundered goods. Some prisoners in these camps even came across their own stolen items. German Federal ArchivesUnlike some of the pricey art stolen by the Nazis, these household goods remain lost to time. Some may even be sitting in plain sight in houses across Europe.The stolen goods were divided into two categories: personal belongings and damaged items, which were set on fire at a daily bonfire on Quai de la Gare by the Germans, and things deemed fit to sell, which were sorted into categories and distributed across Nazi territories.Lvitan, a famous four-story Parisian department store that once sold furniture, was taken over during the Nazi occupation of Paris. The storefront was converted into a labor camp where nearly 800 Jewish prisoners were detained and forced to organize and repair plundered goods under the Mbel Aktion.Plundered Possessions At LvitanGerman Federal ArchivesRoughly 800 Jewish men and women were forced to work at the Lvitan labor camp.Before it was occupied by Nazis, Lvitan had been a giant furniture shop owned by a Jewish entrepreneur named Wolf Lvitan.The shop became a hub for processing and showcasing stolen goods during the war. Officers browsed and picked out looted items to send home to their families as if they were shopping for manufactured goods at IKEA. The staff at Lvitan were Jewish prisoners transferred from the Drancy internment camp just outside Paris, and many of them were later sent to Auschwitz.German Federal ArchivesA Jewish prisoner assembles packets of goods at Lvitan.The first three stories of the Lvitan building were used as showrooms for the Nazis stolen goods while the top floor was the prison where Jewish laborers ate and slept. Jewish prisoners at the Lvitan labor camp who had vocational skills in sewing or handiwork were tasked with repairing items that were slightly damaged.The items sold at Lvitan were of little value; cheap items that could easily be purchased at any regular store, unlike the priceless artworks that were also famously plundered by the Nazis across Europe. But the banality of Mbel Aktion was very much the point. German Federal ArchivesThe stolen goods were stripped of their Jewish owners identities, rendering them meaningless as a way to eliminate even the memory of the Jewish population.As noted by sociologist and author of Witnessing the Robbing of the Jews: A Photographic Album, Paris, 1940-1944 Sarah Gensburger, some of Hitlers closest confidantes including Hermann Gring questioned the operation due to the cost of seizing and transporting millions of common objects. But it carried on anyway.If the project endured nonetheless, Gensburger posits, its because one of its fundamental objectives was to destroy all trace of the Jews very existence.German Federal ArchivesJewish prisoners with sewing and handiwork skills were tasked to repair items that were slightly damaged.Not much about the Furniture Operation was left after the war, except an album of 85 photographs documenting the stolen goods that were resold at Lvitan.The album was recovered by a member of the special task force called the Monuments Men, who were tasked to recover art pieces looted by the Nazis. The album of rare photographs is now kept in the German Federal Archives in Koblenz, Germany.Although the objects sold at Lvitan may not have been as valuable as the priceless artworks that were also stolen by the Nazis, they nevertheless depict the magnitude of the lives that were stolen under Hitlers regime.Today, the former labor camp storefront still stands on Rue Faubourg Saint Martin. A small plaque on the building now the office of an advertising agency is the only trace of the atrocities that took place inside.Now that youve read about the Nazis department store of stolen goods, learn about the tragic life of Czeslawa Kwoka, who died at the hands of the Nazis, though her powerful portrait at Auschwitz lives on. Then, check out the 75-year-old diary of an SS officer that could lead to 28 tons of stolen Nazi gold.The post Inside Lvitan, The Nazi Department Store Where Jewish Prisoners Were Forced To Sell Their Own Belongings appeared first on All That's Interesting.

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