The office secretaries changed the birth dates of the children so that they would be listed as older and therefore eligible to work. The majority went into the Small Camp, which was an enclosed area on the side of the larger camp. Clothing was much harder to secure because there was not any that could fit the smaller ones since Buchenwald was a mens' camp. There was no choice but for many of the younger children to wear the same clothes for weeks on end and to just try to stay as clean as possible. The children were almost always kept inside the barracks. The decision was made to scatter the children into different barracks. The older children who could pass for sixteen were assigned to work commandos. But most important, they managed to save nearly 700 children who had miraculously survived in the heart of the Nazi death machine.