These haunting images of a 14-year-old Polish girl who was murdered by Nazis in Auschwitz in 1943, have come to life through the work of a Brazilian artist. Czesława Kwoka was photographed by a fellow prisoner as part of a project by Auschwitz-Birkenau officials to 'document' those taken to the death camp, just moments after being beaten up by a female prison guard.
Now, 75 years later, artist Marina Amaral painstakingly colourised Miss Kwoka's portraits, down to the blood on her busted lip. Miss Kwoka was deported from her home in Zamość, southeastern Poland in December 1942, along with her mother, to make room for a German colony that the Nazis were building.
They were deemed 'political prisoners', and her categorization can be seen on her prisoner's uniform which has a red triangle with a 'P'.
The photographs show her on the verge of tears, her bottom lip sporting a cut.
Shortly before the photos were taken, she had been beaten up by a female prison guard for not understanding orders being barked at her in German. <!-- Global site tag (gtag.js) - Google Analytics -->
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