The Last Photos Of A 14-Year-Old Polish Girl In Auschwitz Get Colorized, And They’ll Break Your Heart
Digital artist Marina Amaral has been colorizing historic photos for three years and recently updated the last images of a 14-year-old Polish prisoner in Auschwitz. Breathing life into the black-and-white pictures, Amaral managed to visually emphasize the tragic past of Czeslawa Kwoka.
“It was very hard to stare at her face for so many minutes knowing what happened to her,” Amaral told Bored Panda. “I wanted to give Czeslawa the opportunity to tell her story, which is [also] the story of so many other victims.”
“It is much easier to relate to these people once we see them in color. We understand what she and millions of others went through better once we see her bruises, the cut on her lip and the red blood on her face. The Holocaust did not begin with the mass killings. It began with the rhetoric of hate.”
Originally, the images were taken by Wilhelm Brasse, better known as the “famous photographer of Auschwitz concentration camp” who was also the prisoner there during World War II.
“I distinctly remember [the] picture of this particular girl inmate,” he said in an interview. “It’s because she looked so young, so disarmingly girlish.” When she arrived at the camp, she couldn’t understand what was being said to her. “So this woman Kapo (a prisoner overseer) took a stick and beat her about the face. This German woman was just taking out her anger on the girl. Such a beautiful young girl, so innocent. She cried but she could do nothing. Before the photograph was taken, the girl dried her tears and the blood from the cut on her lip. To tell you the truth, I felt as if I was being hit myself but I couldn’t interfere. It would have been fatal for me.”
Czeslawa was one of the “approximately 230,000 children and young people aged less than eighteen” among the 1,300,000 people who were deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau from 1940 to 1945. She was transported from Zamosc, Poland, to Auschwitz, on 13 December 1942. On 12 March 1943, Czeslawa Kwoka died at the age of 14; the circumstances of her death were not recorded.
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Czesława Kwoka was 14 when she was sent to Auschwitz – the infamous Nazi death camp
Image credits: Marina Amaral
Digital Colorist Marina Amaral decided to bring this heartbreaking moment back to life in color
Image credits: Marina Amaral
The original photos were taken by another inmate in the camp as part of the project to ‘document’ those taken to the death camp
Image credits: Marina Amaral
Czesława was sat in front of the camera mere minutes after she was beaten by a female prison guard
Image credits: Marina Amaral
“She cried but she could do nothing. Before the photograph was taken, the girl dried her tears and the blood from the cut on her lip”
Image credits: Marina Amaral
With fresh blood still on her face, the last images ever taken of Czesława Kwoka are a stark reminder of the attrocities that happened there
Image credits: Marina Amaral
There are plenty more historic photos colorized by Marina Amaral, like the Burning Monk
Image credits: Marina Amaral
A Victim Of American Bombing
Image credits: Marina Amaral
English Orphan In London, 1945
Image credits: Marina Amaral
A French Boy Introduces Himself To Indian Soldiers
Image credits: Marina Amaral
Abraham Lincoln
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Airmail Pilot
Image credits: Marina Amaral
Broad Street, New York
Image credits: Marina Amaral
Elvis Presley, Priscilla Presley And Lisa Marie
Image credits: Marina Amaral
Three French Boys Looking At A Knocked-out German Panther Tank
Image credits: Marina Amaral
John And Jacqueline Kennedy
Image credits: Marina Amaral
Inmates At Wobbelin Concentration Camp
Image credits: Marina Amaral
Migrant Mother
Image credits: Marina Amaral
Medics From The Us 5th And 6th Engineer Special Brigade
Image credits: Marina Amaral
Grigori Rasputin
Image credits: Marina Amaral
Polish Refugees
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Drink Dr. Pepper
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Winston Churchill
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It gives me goosebumps just to think about what the girl and everyone else in the concentration camps has to go through... Some things can never be forgotten...
And must never be forgotten imo, or history will repeat itself.
Load More Replies...when they're in black and white they're so powerful but it's easy to distance yourself from them as they see like they're from such a distant past, but the addition of colour reminds us that these events were not so long ago and somehow even more real. powerful stuff.
I was struck, also, by the b/w ones vs color. The varying gray tones openly reveal the emotional suffering/ vs the more contemporary look of same photo, nearly, both take me to completely different "places" in reaction. "Migrant Mother" really hits me, as I see the mismatched and tattered socks on baby, the dirt on all, revealing the suffering mother and children, and last of all, the hopelessness and resignation on Mom's face, unable to even feed her children freely. Lots of Voices to hear.
Load More Replies...Remove color, add color, distort them, doesn't matter because it will turn your stomach either way knowing how much suffering people went through, amazing job on the photos, I think they are still just as powerful when you really look at each one in both color and no color though.
This is just one of the 11 million+ reasons why should Holocaust jokes will never be funny or even accepted.
When we mention holocaust it always means jews genocide but there weren't just only Jews !!!
Load More Replies...Long will I remember Czeslawa Kwoka. As heartbreaking as it is to see those photos of her it is also extremely important to never ever forget what took place in the Horrific concentration camps. The sadness in her eyes is gut wrenching. So many beautiful and innocent people massacred due to one man's outrageous beliefs. So so so horrible.
The hardest part is that it wasn't one man. Alone he wouldn't have managed. Dreads me. This makes me stop and think, what if circumstances I live in were the same. Will I have courage to stand up against it or will I silently let it happen to cover my back? Will I see my neighbor joining the evil side? Really hard to imagine, but that really happened. And recently. Human's memory is short.
Load More Replies...I want to reach into that photo and pull that girl into my arms. Atrocities- I can't believe that we allowed this to happen only 70 short years ago. My grandfather was a war hero , spent days in a dingy in the ocean holding his friend above water by holding his bootstrap in his teeth. It's strange these stories I've always heard didn't make me feel what these photos did. It's so easy to distance ourselves, it feels better to. But we shouldn't....that pic will haunt me forever- and damn right it should.
The ethnic cleansing of Zamojszczyzna by Germany, she was a one of victim from around 30,000 children of Polish children only in one small city Zamosc
I didn't want to look at this, but her poignant face and fate we all wish we could have saved her from are reminders we must act to prevent cruelty, death and bigotry--to make a difference and act in her name
My heart just breaks for this poor girl and the millions like her who died for no reason at all. Humanity considers itself to be an "evolved species", but sometimes, I think that the only thing that is evolved about us is our capacity for cruelty. :-(
The machinery of killing, dehumanizing human beings in the name of a horrible, hateful ideology od higher and lower races. You were Jewish, Slavic, Roma, you were different ( mentally ill, homosexual...) and you lost the right to be considered a human. Even little children, babies! You are right, such cruelty is hardly seen in animal behaviour. This beautiful kid needed help, a hug, safe home ..... and got evil cruelty and death.... why?!
Load More Replies...Yes it was from the dust bowl. They later named the photo 'Migrant Mother.' She was only 32 in that photo! Just crazy to see how differently people age when not under immense amounts of stress.
Load More Replies...She has the look of someone who knows she is going to die in her right eye, and the left is pure courage to make a meaningful picture of it, of her. No child should ever have to look like this.
Looking at that young girl after she had been beaten by a guard...it just breaks my heart. You would truly have to be a monster to do such things. The color makes it seem more....close, more real. The black and white is a startling image, but the color really brings the whole situation to life.
The Jews were marginalized and demonized by the Nazis so much that the average German was brainwashed into thinking that the Jews weren't even human. It was easy to beat and torture them when you consider that the torturers didn't even consider them human.
Load More Replies...The picture of the little polish girl goes deep in my heart. It is so unbelievable what a nation can do to an other nation. No words can describe this, loosing people of any nation this way. What a tragedy.
So very sad. The young girl must have been very pretty. It must have been heart breaking to have had her hair cut off so brutally.
That poor girl! It is an atrocity for something like that to happen, and for some people who still deny it happened.
I am amazed by the work she did, and horified at the results. Powerful to say the least.
Wow, powerful photos. :( Also, no offense, but Priscilla Presley's hair, it looks ctazy. XD
My wish is that every single man and woman involved in the torture and killings be found and punished, I don't care if they are 60,80,90 whatever years old now. If there is a hell may they all meet there and suffer.
How could a 60 or 80 year old possibly have been involved in torture and killing in Nazi Germany? They would have been children under 10 or not even have been born yet at the end of the war.
Load More Replies...Many were truly heartbreaking but others were somewhat heartwarming and deeply meaningful. Both the originals and coloured photos are amazing. Dunno who were the photographers of the original ones but they really had the talent of capturing the soul of the places and people.
No matter how often I come across photos of concentrate camps , my heart breaks in a million pieces. No one has the right to treat other humans like this no matter your beliefs. Hoping these lost souls are now happy and pain free.
As a polish girl i must notice, that germans nowadays teach their kids in school, that there was polish death camps in aushwitz, also jews in israel blame poles for responsibility for holocaust. Therefore i can't understand, why all inscriptions and documents in dead camps where written in german, not in polish or "nazi". Even usa cause some diplomatic restriction for poland, for denying claims that poland was responsible for holocaust in WWII.
Of course not! A German teacher who would teach the kids in school that the death camps were under Polish control would immediately be banned as a nazi and never allowed to teach again in Germany. "Polish" is, however, also a geographical adjective in the German language and does not necessarily mean "belong to Poland" but is also sometimes used to say "situated in what is nowadays Poland" so maybe that is the source of misunderstanding. But of course German pupils do learn in school that the Germans were responsible for the nazi murders at the time and that Poland was under German control. We cannot learn from our past if we deny the guilt of or ancestors or the danger that it could happen again - and most of the people living in Germany are fully aware how important this is because this is the only way to prevent it from happening again. This and, rather than blaming others, doing something to make the world a better place - helping refugees, fighting anti-semitism etc. etc.
Load More Replies...It gives clearer images of the reality of what was happening. We must never forget the atrocities of war.
Sceslawa. My heart breaks. I have to revisit the page again and again. So many children died alone, bewildered and mortally scared.
Heartbreaking. It's nearly impossible to comprehend the atrocities of war.
Interesting, but I didn't start crying. I've read a lot about the Nazis in the past, and they're despicable people. Unfortunately, they haven't gone extinct, which is why I use the present tense. The concentration camps were atrocious, but we've seen other atrocities since then. Maybe I'm becoming numb?
They aren't getting the colors from the actual photos. The folks who do the really good historical photos do a TON of research to figure out what the colors should be, then use their knowledge of shadows and whatnot to add in the details.
Load More Replies...Thinking about my 8th grade girl students who are mostly 14 now... my heart is broken looking at Czeslava... her eyes say everything. We must not forget, and we must speak out against the "rhetoric of hate" being preached in the USA these days.
not wanting to fuss to the person who posted this but plz put the white n' black pics first sry
1. "Czesława Kwoka was 14 when she was sent to Auschwitz – the infamous Nazi death camp" 2. "Three French Boys Looking At A Knocked-out German Panther Tank" So nazi or german?
It's CRAZY to think, how horrible this was, and yet, less than 33yrs later ANOTHER genocide happened...1971 Bangladesh genocide. Supported by Muslim Leadership. Now, of course, I'm not comparing or saying ALL Muslims are like Nazis, (I know good Muslim ppl) just those particular... groups. Just think; the KKK claimed to be "Christian"..(I know good Christian ppl). I guess what I'm saying, if you're an evil person, you could "care less" about what your "labeled"...evil doesn't "care" at all. *Don't come at me w/numbers, organized MASS MURDER & RAPE? That should NOT be forgotten...because of +/- ppl. It's not a scoreboard.
It's CRAZY to think, how horrible this was, and yet, less than 33yrs later ANOTHER genocide happened...1971 Bangladesh genocide. Supported by Muslim Leadership. Now, of course, I'm not comparing or saying ALL Muslims are like Nazis, (I know good Muslim ppl) just those particular... groups. Just think; the KKK claimed to be "Christian"..(I know good Christian ppl). I guess what I'm saying, if you're an evil person, you could "care less" about what your "labeled"...evil doesn't "care" at all. *Don't come at me w/numbers, organized MASS MURDER & RAPE? That should NOT be forgotten because of +/- ppl. It's not a scoreboard.
I think it is important to show people that there was many, many other people, besides the jews, who were in the camps and suffered and died... Not just on one side. Many others died and their death is ignored and it is not fair.
This girl is not Jewish. She is Catholic. Jewish people made up the majority of those murdered.
Load More Replies...I'm sorry, but my husband is a photographer - and if it's not captured in the original photo, then it's someone's manipulation. He does most of his work in black & white and it's amazing. But if you take his photos and colorize them, you can completely alter the perspective, by simply by altering the color of the light. You can NEVER know what the light/environment/shadow or circumstances were at the exact moment these photos were taken. Leave history alone & stop trying to put your own interpretation on it.
We can, and do know the "circumstances" of where that little girl was murdered. We know that she was wearing the striped prisoner outfit the Nazis made all concentration camp victims wear. We can see what was left of her hair after it was "shaved" off. We can see her eyes, color or not, and we can see that she knew her fate. She knew. That was the "circumstance" she faced. So, we do know; and, nothing alters that knowledge. We are not interpreting anything. We know.
Load More Replies...How on earth has the artist chosen to give prisoners at oncentration camps the same healthy, rosy complexion as that of President Kennedy? What was no doubt done with the best of intentions runs the risk of becoming a weapon in the hands of Holocaust deniers, I am afraid.
The little girl did not have "rosy" cheeks; her skin was slightly tanned due to exposure to weather.
Load More Replies...It is absolutely unbelievable too see these pictures colored, it really breaths new life to them..its stunning and heartbreaking and I don't even have the right words to describe how it makes me feel.
Amazing. Brought history to life. I know this already (62 years old and father WW2 Navy) but seeing this along with my parents' stories has totally done my head in for a while. We are so lucky and beholden to that generation for our freedom to be total pricks. I feel shame and gratitude same time.
When you photograph people in colour you are photographing their clothes, but when you photograph people in black and white, you are photographing their souls.
Excellent work all the way through. Um sorry to nit-pick but surely the word is "Coloured" rather than colourized?
The word is colored, if you are American; the word is "coloured" if you are English.
Load More Replies...The colours make it unbelievably real. As if a distant memory has been dug and thrusted to the light. I wonder how the colorist does it, does she do some research? The Polish girl has a pink triangle on her, it would suggest she was a homosexual. It would be horrible if she was sent to death for any reason. But I can't help but think she may have died because she used to love and that her love for another girl was the reason. Either way, it's horrible.
A red (not pink) triangle (to mark “political prisoners”) the letter "P" inside (for Pole), for the girl was Polish. A different triangle for each subhuman group from them German "Ubermensch". Check here: https://upload.wikim...9_retouched.jpg. German made genocide of ethnic Poles with more than 3 million victims, including Czesława Kwoka such an innocent beautiful girl. P-5ab3a23186301.jpg
Load More Replies...Please watch this video: https://youtu.be/449ZOWbUkf0. It gives me the shivers every time I watch it. We must never forget.
It was the NAZI part of it that made them do the things they did. Not being German. All Nazis believed in this, all Germans did not.
Load More Replies...And you are so ignorant that it make me so sad. We are not denying anything - the polish goverment denies only THE LIES that are spreading around the world, we are tired of this - everbody wants to change history - Poland was not a murderer!!! Czesława Kwoka was one of the polish victim - and there were thousands of them - how you can say that this tragedy was partially made by polish people? For us is the same as spit in the face.
Load More Replies...That's what I'm talking about. People, EDUCATE YOURSELF FIRST, THEN SPEAK, thank you. She wasn't Jew or Polish Jew, she was "just" Polish. You can probably see red inverted triangle with black letter "P" on it. Jewish people had yellow regular triangle sign. Red inverted triangle means that she was "political" prisoner, black P is for german word "polnisch", means Polish. I'm waiting for the day when people will FINALLY realise that it was nightmare for non-Jewish people too. It was tragedy of HUMANITY, we cannot let happen never ever again. Peace.
Load More Replies...It gives me goosebumps just to think about what the girl and everyone else in the concentration camps has to go through... Some things can never be forgotten...
And must never be forgotten imo, or history will repeat itself.
Load More Replies...when they're in black and white they're so powerful but it's easy to distance yourself from them as they see like they're from such a distant past, but the addition of colour reminds us that these events were not so long ago and somehow even more real. powerful stuff.
I was struck, also, by the b/w ones vs color. The varying gray tones openly reveal the emotional suffering/ vs the more contemporary look of same photo, nearly, both take me to completely different "places" in reaction. "Migrant Mother" really hits me, as I see the mismatched and tattered socks on baby, the dirt on all, revealing the suffering mother and children, and last of all, the hopelessness and resignation on Mom's face, unable to even feed her children freely. Lots of Voices to hear.
Load More Replies...Remove color, add color, distort them, doesn't matter because it will turn your stomach either way knowing how much suffering people went through, amazing job on the photos, I think they are still just as powerful when you really look at each one in both color and no color though.
This is just one of the 11 million+ reasons why should Holocaust jokes will never be funny or even accepted.
When we mention holocaust it always means jews genocide but there weren't just only Jews !!!
Load More Replies...Long will I remember Czeslawa Kwoka. As heartbreaking as it is to see those photos of her it is also extremely important to never ever forget what took place in the Horrific concentration camps. The sadness in her eyes is gut wrenching. So many beautiful and innocent people massacred due to one man's outrageous beliefs. So so so horrible.
The hardest part is that it wasn't one man. Alone he wouldn't have managed. Dreads me. This makes me stop and think, what if circumstances I live in were the same. Will I have courage to stand up against it or will I silently let it happen to cover my back? Will I see my neighbor joining the evil side? Really hard to imagine, but that really happened. And recently. Human's memory is short.
Load More Replies...I want to reach into that photo and pull that girl into my arms. Atrocities- I can't believe that we allowed this to happen only 70 short years ago. My grandfather was a war hero , spent days in a dingy in the ocean holding his friend above water by holding his bootstrap in his teeth. It's strange these stories I've always heard didn't make me feel what these photos did. It's so easy to distance ourselves, it feels better to. But we shouldn't....that pic will haunt me forever- and damn right it should.
The ethnic cleansing of Zamojszczyzna by Germany, she was a one of victim from around 30,000 children of Polish children only in one small city Zamosc
I didn't want to look at this, but her poignant face and fate we all wish we could have saved her from are reminders we must act to prevent cruelty, death and bigotry--to make a difference and act in her name
My heart just breaks for this poor girl and the millions like her who died for no reason at all. Humanity considers itself to be an "evolved species", but sometimes, I think that the only thing that is evolved about us is our capacity for cruelty. :-(
The machinery of killing, dehumanizing human beings in the name of a horrible, hateful ideology od higher and lower races. You were Jewish, Slavic, Roma, you were different ( mentally ill, homosexual...) and you lost the right to be considered a human. Even little children, babies! You are right, such cruelty is hardly seen in animal behaviour. This beautiful kid needed help, a hug, safe home ..... and got evil cruelty and death.... why?!
Load More Replies...Yes it was from the dust bowl. They later named the photo 'Migrant Mother.' She was only 32 in that photo! Just crazy to see how differently people age when not under immense amounts of stress.
Load More Replies...She has the look of someone who knows she is going to die in her right eye, and the left is pure courage to make a meaningful picture of it, of her. No child should ever have to look like this.
Looking at that young girl after she had been beaten by a guard...it just breaks my heart. You would truly have to be a monster to do such things. The color makes it seem more....close, more real. The black and white is a startling image, but the color really brings the whole situation to life.
The Jews were marginalized and demonized by the Nazis so much that the average German was brainwashed into thinking that the Jews weren't even human. It was easy to beat and torture them when you consider that the torturers didn't even consider them human.
Load More Replies...The picture of the little polish girl goes deep in my heart. It is so unbelievable what a nation can do to an other nation. No words can describe this, loosing people of any nation this way. What a tragedy.
So very sad. The young girl must have been very pretty. It must have been heart breaking to have had her hair cut off so brutally.
That poor girl! It is an atrocity for something like that to happen, and for some people who still deny it happened.
I am amazed by the work she did, and horified at the results. Powerful to say the least.
Wow, powerful photos. :( Also, no offense, but Priscilla Presley's hair, it looks ctazy. XD
My wish is that every single man and woman involved in the torture and killings be found and punished, I don't care if they are 60,80,90 whatever years old now. If there is a hell may they all meet there and suffer.
How could a 60 or 80 year old possibly have been involved in torture and killing in Nazi Germany? They would have been children under 10 or not even have been born yet at the end of the war.
Load More Replies...Many were truly heartbreaking but others were somewhat heartwarming and deeply meaningful. Both the originals and coloured photos are amazing. Dunno who were the photographers of the original ones but they really had the talent of capturing the soul of the places and people.
No matter how often I come across photos of concentrate camps , my heart breaks in a million pieces. No one has the right to treat other humans like this no matter your beliefs. Hoping these lost souls are now happy and pain free.
As a polish girl i must notice, that germans nowadays teach their kids in school, that there was polish death camps in aushwitz, also jews in israel blame poles for responsibility for holocaust. Therefore i can't understand, why all inscriptions and documents in dead camps where written in german, not in polish or "nazi". Even usa cause some diplomatic restriction for poland, for denying claims that poland was responsible for holocaust in WWII.
Of course not! A German teacher who would teach the kids in school that the death camps were under Polish control would immediately be banned as a nazi and never allowed to teach again in Germany. "Polish" is, however, also a geographical adjective in the German language and does not necessarily mean "belong to Poland" but is also sometimes used to say "situated in what is nowadays Poland" so maybe that is the source of misunderstanding. But of course German pupils do learn in school that the Germans were responsible for the nazi murders at the time and that Poland was under German control. We cannot learn from our past if we deny the guilt of or ancestors or the danger that it could happen again - and most of the people living in Germany are fully aware how important this is because this is the only way to prevent it from happening again. This and, rather than blaming others, doing something to make the world a better place - helping refugees, fighting anti-semitism etc. etc.
Load More Replies...It gives clearer images of the reality of what was happening. We must never forget the atrocities of war.
Sceslawa. My heart breaks. I have to revisit the page again and again. So many children died alone, bewildered and mortally scared.
Heartbreaking. It's nearly impossible to comprehend the atrocities of war.
Interesting, but I didn't start crying. I've read a lot about the Nazis in the past, and they're despicable people. Unfortunately, they haven't gone extinct, which is why I use the present tense. The concentration camps were atrocious, but we've seen other atrocities since then. Maybe I'm becoming numb?
They aren't getting the colors from the actual photos. The folks who do the really good historical photos do a TON of research to figure out what the colors should be, then use their knowledge of shadows and whatnot to add in the details.
Load More Replies...Thinking about my 8th grade girl students who are mostly 14 now... my heart is broken looking at Czeslava... her eyes say everything. We must not forget, and we must speak out against the "rhetoric of hate" being preached in the USA these days.
not wanting to fuss to the person who posted this but plz put the white n' black pics first sry
1. "Czesława Kwoka was 14 when she was sent to Auschwitz – the infamous Nazi death camp" 2. "Three French Boys Looking At A Knocked-out German Panther Tank" So nazi or german?
It's CRAZY to think, how horrible this was, and yet, less than 33yrs later ANOTHER genocide happened...1971 Bangladesh genocide. Supported by Muslim Leadership. Now, of course, I'm not comparing or saying ALL Muslims are like Nazis, (I know good Muslim ppl) just those particular... groups. Just think; the KKK claimed to be "Christian"..(I know good Christian ppl). I guess what I'm saying, if you're an evil person, you could "care less" about what your "labeled"...evil doesn't "care" at all. *Don't come at me w/numbers, organized MASS MURDER & RAPE? That should NOT be forgotten...because of +/- ppl. It's not a scoreboard.
It's CRAZY to think, how horrible this was, and yet, less than 33yrs later ANOTHER genocide happened...1971 Bangladesh genocide. Supported by Muslim Leadership. Now, of course, I'm not comparing or saying ALL Muslims are like Nazis, (I know good Muslim ppl) just those particular... groups. Just think; the KKK claimed to be "Christian"..(I know good Christian ppl). I guess what I'm saying, if you're an evil person, you could "care less" about what your "labeled"...evil doesn't "care" at all. *Don't come at me w/numbers, organized MASS MURDER & RAPE? That should NOT be forgotten because of +/- ppl. It's not a scoreboard.
I think it is important to show people that there was many, many other people, besides the jews, who were in the camps and suffered and died... Not just on one side. Many others died and their death is ignored and it is not fair.
This girl is not Jewish. She is Catholic. Jewish people made up the majority of those murdered.
Load More Replies...I'm sorry, but my husband is a photographer - and if it's not captured in the original photo, then it's someone's manipulation. He does most of his work in black & white and it's amazing. But if you take his photos and colorize them, you can completely alter the perspective, by simply by altering the color of the light. You can NEVER know what the light/environment/shadow or circumstances were at the exact moment these photos were taken. Leave history alone & stop trying to put your own interpretation on it.
We can, and do know the "circumstances" of where that little girl was murdered. We know that she was wearing the striped prisoner outfit the Nazis made all concentration camp victims wear. We can see what was left of her hair after it was "shaved" off. We can see her eyes, color or not, and we can see that she knew her fate. She knew. That was the "circumstance" she faced. So, we do know; and, nothing alters that knowledge. We are not interpreting anything. We know.
Load More Replies...How on earth has the artist chosen to give prisoners at oncentration camps the same healthy, rosy complexion as that of President Kennedy? What was no doubt done with the best of intentions runs the risk of becoming a weapon in the hands of Holocaust deniers, I am afraid.
The little girl did not have "rosy" cheeks; her skin was slightly tanned due to exposure to weather.
Load More Replies...It is absolutely unbelievable too see these pictures colored, it really breaths new life to them..its stunning and heartbreaking and I don't even have the right words to describe how it makes me feel.
Amazing. Brought history to life. I know this already (62 years old and father WW2 Navy) but seeing this along with my parents' stories has totally done my head in for a while. We are so lucky and beholden to that generation for our freedom to be total pricks. I feel shame and gratitude same time.
When you photograph people in colour you are photographing their clothes, but when you photograph people in black and white, you are photographing their souls.
Excellent work all the way through. Um sorry to nit-pick but surely the word is "Coloured" rather than colourized?
The word is colored, if you are American; the word is "coloured" if you are English.
Load More Replies...The colours make it unbelievably real. As if a distant memory has been dug and thrusted to the light. I wonder how the colorist does it, does she do some research? The Polish girl has a pink triangle on her, it would suggest she was a homosexual. It would be horrible if she was sent to death for any reason. But I can't help but think she may have died because she used to love and that her love for another girl was the reason. Either way, it's horrible.
A red (not pink) triangle (to mark “political prisoners”) the letter "P" inside (for Pole), for the girl was Polish. A different triangle for each subhuman group from them German "Ubermensch". Check here: https://upload.wikim...9_retouched.jpg. German made genocide of ethnic Poles with more than 3 million victims, including Czesława Kwoka such an innocent beautiful girl. P-5ab3a23186301.jpg
Load More Replies...Please watch this video: https://youtu.be/449ZOWbUkf0. It gives me the shivers every time I watch it. We must never forget.
It was the NAZI part of it that made them do the things they did. Not being German. All Nazis believed in this, all Germans did not.
Load More Replies...And you are so ignorant that it make me so sad. We are not denying anything - the polish goverment denies only THE LIES that are spreading around the world, we are tired of this - everbody wants to change history - Poland was not a murderer!!! Czesława Kwoka was one of the polish victim - and there were thousands of them - how you can say that this tragedy was partially made by polish people? For us is the same as spit in the face.
Load More Replies...That's what I'm talking about. People, EDUCATE YOURSELF FIRST, THEN SPEAK, thank you. She wasn't Jew or Polish Jew, she was "just" Polish. You can probably see red inverted triangle with black letter "P" on it. Jewish people had yellow regular triangle sign. Red inverted triangle means that she was "political" prisoner, black P is for german word "polnisch", means Polish. I'm waiting for the day when people will FINALLY realise that it was nightmare for non-Jewish people too. It was tragedy of HUMANITY, we cannot let happen never ever again. Peace.
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