MPA PUBLIC REVIEW || MILWAUKEE - The photo is Czeslawa Kwoka, a Polish Catholic, a 14-year-old girl, a child. She died in Auschwitz extermination camp on February 18 1943 with a phenol injection [a mildly acidic toxic white crystalline solid obtained from coal tar and used in chemical manufacture, and in dilute form (under the name carbolic ) as a disinfectant] in her heart.
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I look at this young girl's face and see - horror frozen at rest - in her face. It has come because of the "hate" of her people - Jewish and Polish. I share her with you, said Mary Glass
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Shortly before the execution, she was photographed by the prisoner Whilem Brasse. Brasse, subsequently went on to testify against Kwoka's executioner.
The photo is the face of a terrified child, who didn't even speak the language of her executioners and who lost her mother a few days before.
She was one of about 250.000 children and underage that were executed in Auschwitz-Birkenau. It is such a powerful photograph on so many levels, the eyes are the gateway to the soul.
The photo, originally black and white at Memorial Oświęcim, was colored by professional photographer Mirek Spznoar who was impressed by Czeslawa's photo and decided to put it in color and available for everyone.
Reflection required.
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