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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