A few days ago it was the 71st anniversary of this little girl’s death, so I decided to reblog this.
Her face still haunts me.
The last post that I added to City Jackdaw was all about the wonder and splendour of this beautiful world that we live in. Today’s post is about a darker aspect of this same world, an aspect that we shamefully bring to it. I came across the story of Czeslawa Kwoka by accident. I had never heard of her before, but it was the photograph that drew my attention. I could not stop looking at it.
Czeslawa Kwoka was born in Poland in 1928. This beautiful girl was to die in Auschwitz in 1943. Not a Jew, she was a Polish Catholic girl who was sent to Auschwitz along with her mother in December 1942. Within three months, both were dead.
I have never been to Auschwitz. I did go to the Terezín camp when I was in Prague a few years ago. Although used as a ghetto and not…
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I remember that post. We need more tributes like this so we don’t forget the horrors of that time.
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