We, the comrades of
Unit 1012, will honor and remember Czesława Kwoka every year on 15
August and 12 March. We, the comrades of Unit 1012: The VFFDP, will make her
one of The
82 murdered children of Unit 1012, where we will not forget her.
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Czesława
Kwoka as
an inmate at Auschwitz concentration camp in late 1942 or early 1943 Photograph
credit: Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum and Wilhelm Brasse
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Czesława Kwoka (15 August 1928 Wólka Złojecka – 12 March 1943 Auschwitz) was a Polish
Catholic
child who died in the Auschwitz concentration camp at the age of 14. She was
one of the thousands of child victims of German World War II crimes against
Poles. She died at Auschwitz-Birkenau, in Poland, and is among those
memorialized in the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum indoor exhibit called Block
no. 6: Exhibition: The Life of the Prisoners.
Photographs of Kwoka and others taken by the "famous photographer
of Auschwitz", Wilhelm Brasse, from 1940 to 1945, displayed in that
Museum photographic memorial, several of which Brasse holds up and discusses in
The Portraitist, a 2005 television
documentary film about Brasse, became a focus of
interviews with Brasse cited in various articles and books.
Brasse's three photographs of Kwoka in particular inspired the creation
of Painting Czesława Kwoka (2007), a literary award-winning
collaborative work of art and verse which attempts to transport her "image
and voice into our lives."
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