She died in the Auschwitz extermination camp on 18 February 1943 with an injection of phenol into her heart.
Shortly before the execution, she was photographed by the prisoner Whilem Brasse, who testified against the executioner of Czeslawa, a woman who, before the photo was taken, hit her in the face, as the haematoma on her lip shows. We only see the face of a terrified little girl, who did not even speak their language and who had lost her mother a few days earlier. She was one of about 250,000 children and minors murdered at Auschwitz-Birkenau.
The photo, originally in black and white at the Oświęcim Memorial, was coloured by Brazilian professional photographer Anna Amaral, who was impressed by Czeslawa’s photo and decided to make it available to everyone in colour.
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