Czesława Kwoka
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Czesława Kwoka (15 August 1928 – 12 March 1943) was a Polish Catholic girl who was murdered at the age of 14 in Auschwitz.[2][3] One of the thousands of minor child and teen victims of German World War II war crimes against ethnic Poles in German-occupied Poland, she is among those memorialized in an Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum exhibit, "Block no. 6: Exhibition: The Life of the Prisoners".[1][4]
Czesława Kwoka | |
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Born | (1928-08-15)15 August 1928 |
Died | 12 March 1943(1943-03-12) (aged 14) |
Known for | being one of thousands of victims of German World War II crimes against Poles whose "identity pictures" Wilhelm Brasse was ordered to take at Auschwitz; memorialized in the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum exhibition in Block no. 6 (1955–); being shown in the documentary film The Portraitist (2005); and inspiring creation of Painting Czesława Kwoka (2007) |
Parent | Katarzyna Kwoka [1] |
Personal details | |
Nationality | Polish |
Religion | Roman Catholic |
Photographs of Kwoka and others, taken by the "famous photographer of Auschwitz", Wilhelm Brasse, between 1940 and 1945, are displayed in the Museum's photographic memorial. Brasse discusses several of the photographs in The Portraitist, a 2005 television documentary about him. They became a focus of interviews with him that have been cited in various articles and books.[5][6][7][8]