This could be a girl from your neighborhood which you used to greet eversince or just passed by not saying anything.
These photos let her come alive again as if it were yesterday. This is thrilling and I had to take a deep breath in after I saw it and thought about it!!!
These harrowing pictures of a teenage girl awaiting her torture and death at the hands of Nazi torture specialists lay bare the tragic human toll of the Holocaust.
The gaunt face of 14-year-old prisoner Czesława Kwoka stares back through time in a haunting Auschwitz mugshot restored this year by Brazilian artist Marina Amaral.
Taken just minutes after she was beaten to within an inch of her life, the images give a human face to one of the concentration camp’s 1.1 million victims.
The painstakingly recolored photos show the teenager trying to hold back tears after being repeatedly struck by a guard’s club.
Kwoka was dragged away from her home in southeastern Poland to create living space for ethnic Germans at the height of Nazi domination.
She had the number 26947 tattooed on her arm on arrival, before being savagely beaten by guards as she was dragged off to have her photo taken.
She died 67 days later after Auschwitz scientists injected deadly phenol directly into her heart without using an anesthetic.
“When we see the photos in black and white, we get the feeling that those events happened only in the history books,” Amaral said.
“By restoring the colors on her face, I was able to show the colors of the blood and the bruises, which made everything even more real.
“These people were human beings who had dreams, ambitions, fears, friends, family, and had all this taken from them.
“Unfortunately, Czeslawa was just one among millions of others, but the expression on her face – so much fear, and at the same time so much courage, will stay with me forever.”