Czesława Kwoka
Czesława Kwoka | |
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Kwoka as an inmate at Auschwitz concentration camp in late 1942 or early 1943 Photograph credit: Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum and Wilhelm Brasse | |
| Born | 15 August 1928 |
| Died | 12 March 1943 (aged 14) Auschwitz, German-occupied Poland |
| Known for | being one of thousands of victims of Nazi crimes against ethnic Poles whose "identity pictures" were taken at Auschwitz |
| Parent(s) | Katarzyna and Paweł Kwoka |
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| Nationality | Polish |
| Religion | Roman Catholic |
Czesława Kwoka (15 August 1928 – 12 March 1943) was a Polish Catholic girl who was murdered at the age of 14 in Auschwitz. 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".
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.